scale_vulkan filter does not accept an output format different than yuv420p

[bermond]

The scale_vulkan filter does not accept an output pixel format different than yuv420p in the format option.

For example, when trying to use nv12 in the format option, it fails with an error message of Unsupported input format for conversion:

$ ffmpeg \
  -init_hw_device vulkan=hw:0 -filter_hw_device hw \
  -f lavfi -i 'color=color=White:size=1280x720' \
  -vf 'hwupload,scale_vulkan=w=640:h=480:format=nv12,hwdownload,format=nv12,format=yuv420p' \
  -c:v libx264 -preset:v ultrafast -movflags '+faststart' -t 40 -y test-out.mp4
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Input #0, lavfi, from 'color=color=White:size=1280x720':
  Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
  Stream #0:0: Video: wrapped_avframe, yuv420p, 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 25 tbn
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (wrapped_avframe (native) -> h264 (libx264))
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[Parsed_scale_vulkan_1 @ 0x7b54f0005600] Unsupported input format for conversion
[Parsed_scale_vulkan_1 @ 0x7b54f0005600] Failed to configure output pad on Parsed_scale_vulkan_1
[vf#0:0 @ 0x5ee8fea51b00] Error reinitializing filters!
[vf#0:0 @ 0x5ee8fea51b00] Task finished with error code: -22 (Invalid argument)
[vf#0:0 @ 0x5ee8fea51b00] Terminating thread with return code -22 (Invalid argument)
[vost#0:0/libx264 @ 0x5ee8feac8c80] Could not open encoder before EOF
[vost#0:0/libx264 @ 0x5ee8feac8c80] Task finished with error code: -22 (Invalid argument)
[vost#0:0/libx264 @ 0x5ee8feac8c80] Terminating thread with return code -22 (Invalid argument)
[out#0/mp4 @ 0x5ee9006763c0] Nothing was written into output file, because at least one of its streams received no packets.
frame=    0 fps=0.0 q=0.0 Lsize=       0KiB time=N/A bitrate=N/A speed=N/A    
Conversion failed!

As the error complains about the input pixel format, I tried to insert a format=nv12 filter before hwupload, but this still does not work:

-vf 'format=nv12,hwupload,scale_vulkan=w=640:h=480:format=nv12,hwdownload,format=nv12,format=yuv420p'

It works when using yuv420p pixel format, either by explicitly setting it or by omitting the format option, as bellow:

-vf 'hwupload,scale_vulkan=w=640:h=480:format=yuv420p,hwdownload,format=yuv420p'

-vf 'hwupload,scale_vulkan=w=640:h=480,hwdownload,format=yuv420p'

It also works when using rgba as the input pixel format, but still no nv12 is accepted in the format option, and produces a green tint output (wrong colors, maybe related to #10875):

-vf 'format=bgra,hwupload,scale_vulkan=w=640:h=480:format=yuv420p,hwdownload,format=yuv420p'

All other hardware accelerated scale filters (scale_cuda, scale_npp, scale_qsv and scale_vaapi) does not behave like this, as they accept, for example, nv12 in the format option using the example above.

By looking at the vf_scale_vulkan.c source code (​https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/cffadfe99a1c41866701bab6c7410c17737a1db1:/libavfilter/vf_scale_vulkan.c#l335), it looks like that it should support nv12, yuv420p and yuv444p output formats.

System Information:

• OS: Arch Linux
• Vulkan device: NVIDIA RTX 3060
• GPU driver: NVIDIA proprietary driver version 545.29.06

[bermond]

This seems to be fixed by commit eb7d019b326b0c34e07f2369f31e8ba266fa666b.