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I'd like to convert videos to black and white but also specify the threshold of what to convert to black/white.
I'm currently using cv2 to do this successfully using the 2 lines below (first converts to grayscale then B&W). But it would help my workflow to do everything with FFMPEG if possible.
grayFrame = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
(thresh, BW) = cv2.threshold(grayFrame, 10, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY)
Use the threshold filter:
ffmpeg -i main_1280x720.mp4 -f lavfi -i color=gray:s=1280x720 -f lavfi -i color=black:s=1280x720 -f lavfi -i color=white:s=1280x720 -filter_complex threshold output.mkv
This filter requires four video streams to perform thresholding:
You can optionally add the format filter for a grayscale pixel format: threshold,format=gray (assuming your output format supports that otherwise additional pixel format conversion will automatically take place).
The main answer didn't work for me, this did:
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -f lavfi -i color=gray:s=1280x720 -f lavfi -i color=black:s=1280x720 -f lavfi -i color=white:s=1280x720 -filter_complex "[0:v]scale=1280x720,threshold" output.mkv
maskfun filter has a slightly easier syntax and I assume gets the same result.
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vf format=gray,maskfun=low=128:high=128:fill=0:sum=128 video-bw.mp4
