I have an issue where a video is played in the correct 16:9 aspect ratio when played through VLC or quicktime player, but when I attempt to extract individual frames with ffmpeg the frames come out as 4:3 aspect ratio.
The ffprobe output on the video in question is as follows
$ ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream -of default=noprint_wrappers=1 -print_format json movie.mp4
{
"programs": [
],
"streams": [
{
"index": 0,
"codec_name": "h264",
"codec_long_name": "H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10",
"profile": "Main",
"codec_type": "video",
"codec_time_base": "126669/6400000",
"codec_tag_string": "avc1",
"codec_tag": "0x31637661",
"width": 2592,
"height": 1944,
"coded_width": 2592,
"coded_height": 1944,
"has_b_frames": 0,
"sample_aspect_ratio": "4:3",
"display_aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"pix_fmt": "yuvj420p",
"level": 50,
"color_range": "pc",
"color_space": "bt709",
"color_transfer": "bt709",
"color_primaries": "bt709",
"chroma_location": "left",
"refs": 1,
"is_avc": "true",
"nal_length_size": "4",
"r_frame_rate": "25/1",
"avg_frame_rate": "3200000/126669",
"time_base": "1/12800",
"start_pts": 0,
"start_time": "0.000000",
"duration_ts": 126682,
"duration": "9.897031",
"bit_rate": "4638928",
"bits_per_raw_sample": "8",
"nb_frames": "250",
"disposition": {
"default": 1,
"dub": 0,
"original": 0,
"comment": 0,
"lyrics": 0,
"karaoke": 0,
"forced": 0,
"hearing_impaired": 0,
"visual_impaired": 0,
"clean_effects": 0,
"attached_pic": 0,
"timed_thumbnails": 0
},
"tags": {
"language": "und",
"handler_name": "VideoHandler"
}
}
]
}
So it says
"width": 2592,
"height": 1944,
"coded_width": 2592,
"coded_height": 1944,
"has_b_frames": 0,
"sample_aspect_ratio": "4:3",
"display_aspect_ratio": "16:9",
which seems odd to me. The width/height are in 4:3, the sample aspect ratio is 4:3, the display is 16:9?
Now, when I play this through VLC/Quicktime the video looks fine (screenshot below)
but now, if I run an ffmpeg command to extract individual frames from this video, they come out in 4:3
ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -nostats -loglevel error -i movie.mp4 -vf select='eq(n\,10)+eq(n\,20)+eq(n\,30)+eq(n\,40)',scale=-1:640 -vsync 0 /tmp/ffmpeg_image_%04d.jpg
So I guess my questions are as follows:
- what is the relation between display aspect ratio, sample aspect ratio, and the width/height ratio?
- how to I get ffmpeg to output in the correct aspect ratio?