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Output video configuration

Output video dialog

The output page gives you control over the output formats used by ffdshow. The top half gives you control over the allowed output colorspaces, while the lower half is used for miscellaneous output settings.

Colorspaces

This page allows you to set the default output colorspace and format used by ffdshow. There are two general colorspaces that can be used, and a number of formats within each colorspace.

YUV Colorspace

The default output colorspace. Read more about YUV on this and this wikipedia article. As the YUV colorspace (and YV12 in particular) is the colorspace of choice for video compression, setting ffdshow to output YV12 saves it from having to do any colorspace conversion on the decoded image, speeding up decoding.
There is a number of different YUV output formats supported by ffdshow:

RGB Colorspace

These modes use the more traditional and familiar color format of RGB. Read about RGB on wikipedia (again). RGB output is slower, but possibly more accurate than YUV output.
Videos not using ITU-R BT.601 and studio range (16-235) can be displayed correctly by using Advanced color space options.
The following RGB formats are supported:

Checkbox image (checked) Select closest matching colorspace

Advanced settings

Checkbox image (greyed out) Set pixel aspect ratio in output media type / Use overlay mixer

Checkbox image (unchecked) Set interlace flag in output media type / HW deinterlacing

Tips & Tricks