HD Video Test Clips and Video Format Conversion

Test clip @ 1280 x 720 (720p) or 1920 x 1080 (1080p) can be downloaded from

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx

The WMV files can be converted to other formats such as YUV using ffmpeg:

http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/ffmpeg/

The command is

ffmpeg -i test.wmv -s 1920x1088 test.yuv -vframes number

For convertion from yuv422 to yuv420:

ffmpeg -pix_fmt yuv422p -s 704x576 -i 704_576_100f_422.yuv -pix_fmt yuv420p 704_576_100f_420.yuv

If want to convert to avi, use

ffmpeg -s 1920x1088 -i test.yuv -vcodec copy test.avi

If need to convert to a jpeg, for example, yuv2jpeg,

ffmpeg -vframes 1 -i test.264 testvid%d.jpeg

If need to convert from bmp to a yuv 420 / 422, for example, bmp2yuv, or bmp2yuv420, or bmp2yuv422,

ffmpeg -f image2 -s 1600x1200 -vcodec bmp -i 1600x1200.bmp -pix_fmt yuv420p test420.yuv

ffmpeg -f image2 -s 1600x1200 -vcodec bmp -i 1600x1200.bmp -pix_fmt yuv422p test422.yuv

Here lists 1080i video music clips:

http://hd-video-music-1080i.blogspot.com/2009/03/beyonce-at-bbc-2006-hd-1080-mbaff.html

Some polpular CIF and QCIF test video sequences are listed in the following website. All the sequences are the 4:2:0 YUV format. And all video sequences are compressed in the 7-Zip format.

http://media.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/~taopin/coding/seq.html