ffmpeg: yuv420p pixel format missing?

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00:00 Ffmpeg: Yuv420p Pixel Format Missing?
00:46 Accepted Answer Score 37
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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 37

Use yuv420p

There is no such thing as yuv480p or yuv720p because it is not tied to the video height. yuv420p is a chroma subsampling scheme, and the p stands for planar, not progressive. In ffmpeg yuv420p is called a pixel format.

You can use the format filter, or the legacy -pix_fmt option, to set the pixel format. Example:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf format=yuv420p output.mp4

See a generic list of supported pixel formats with ffmpeg -pix_fmts.
See which pixel formats are supported by a specific encoder, such as ffmpeg -h encoder=libx264.