swscaler warning : deprecated pixel format used

Question

I want to perform a color space conversion of my video frame before converting it to an opengl texture with the following code:

struct SwsContext * pSwsCtx = sws_getCachedContext(NULL,width, height, codec->pix_fmt, width, height, AV_PIX_FMT_RGBA, SWS_POINT, NULL, NULL, NULL);

Each time the sws_getCachedContext() function is called I got the following warning:

[swscaler @ 0x10506fa00] deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly

Here is my ffmpeg output for version information:

ffmpeg version 2.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Mar 26 2014 15:29:01 with Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.38) (based on LLVM 3.4svn)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/2.2 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --enable-vda --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libxvid
  libavutil      52. 66.100 / 52. 66.100
  libavcodec     55. 52.102 / 55. 52.102
  libavformat    55. 33.100 / 55. 33.100
  libavdevice    55. 10.100 / 55. 10.100
  libavfilter     4.  2.100 /  4.  2.100
  libavresample   1.  2.  0 /  1.  2.  0
  libswscale      2.  5.102 /  2.  5.102
  libswresample   0. 18.100 /  0. 18.100
  libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder

Any idea to disable this warning? How to set the color range correctly?

Answer 1

It seems you're trying to read AV_PIX_FMT_YUVJXXXP frames which are deprecated (see the libav doc). You can use this workaround to manage it :

AVPixelFormat pixFormat;
switch (_videoStream->codec->pix_fmt) {
case AV_PIX_FMT_YUVJ420P :
    pixFormat = AV_PIX_FMT_YUV420P;
    break;
case AV_PIX_FMT_YUVJ422P  :
    pixFormat = AV_PIX_FMT_YUV422P;
    break;
case AV_PIX_FMT_YUVJ444P   :
    pixFormat = AV_PIX_FMT_YUV444P;
    break;
case AV_PIX_FMT_YUVJ440P :
    pixFormat = AV_PIX_FMT_YUV440P;
    break;
default:
    pixFormat = _videoStream->codec->codec->pix_fmts;
    break;
}

Answer 2

It is long time since the question was asked, but as I hit the same problem then I looked at it and tried to find also the answer to the second part (How to set the color range correctly?). I am extending the Thomas Ayoub's answer:

AVCodecContext* pCodecCtx = _videoStream->codec;
AVPixelFormat pixFormat;
switch (pCodecCtx->pix_fmt)
  {
    case AV_PIX_FMT_YUVJ420P:
      pixFormat = AV_PIX_FMT_YUV420P;
      break;
    case AV_PIX_FMT_YUVJ422P:
      pixFormat = AV_PIX_FMT_YUV422P;
      break;
    case AV_PIX_FMT_YUVJ444P:
      pixFormat = AV_PIX_FMT_YUV444P;
      break;
    case AV_PIX_FMT_YUVJ440P:
      pixFormat = AV_PIX_FMT_YUV440P;
      break;
    default:
      pixFormat = pCodecCtx->pix_fmt;
  }
// initialize SWS context for software scaling
SwsContext *swsCtx = sws_getContext(pCodecCtx->width, pCodecCtx->height, pixFormat, pCodecCtx->width, pCodecCtx->height, AV_PIX_FMT_RGB24, SWS_BILINEAR, NULL, NULL, NULL);
// change the range of input data by first reading the current color space and then setting it's range as yuvj.
int dummy[4];
int srcRange, dstRange;
int brightness, contrast, saturation;
sws_getColorspaceDetails(swsCtx, (int**)&dummy, &srcRange, (int**)&dummy, &dstRange, &brightness, &contrast, &saturation);
const int* coefs = sws_getCoefficients(SWS_CS_DEFAULT);
srcRange = 1; // this marks that values are according to yuvj
sws_setColorspaceDetails(swsCtx, coefs, srcRange, coefs, dstRange,
                               brightness, contrast, saturation);

What is it about the ranges? The YUV pixel format has values in ranges: Y 16..235, UV 16..240. The YUVJ is extended one and all YUV are 0 ... 255. So setting

srcRange = 1

forces the libav to use extended input data range. If you do not make any changes in the range then probably you only experience exaggerated contrast. It should still scale the input data to RGB color space.