Correct RGB values for AVFrame - ffmpeg

Question

I have to fill the ffmpeg AVFrame->data from a cairo surface pixel data. I have this code:
/* Image info and pixel data */
width = cairo_image_surface_get_width( surface );
height = cairo_image_surface_get_height( surface );
stride = cairo_image_surface_get_stride( surface );
pix = cairo_image_surface_get_data( surface );
for( row = 0; row < height; row++ )
{
data = pix + row * stride;
for( col = 0; col < width; col++ )
{
img->video_frame->data[0][row * img->video_frame->linesize[0] + col] = data[0];
img->video_frame->data[1][row * img->video_frame->linesize[1] + col] = data[1];
//img->video_frame->data[2][row * img->video_frame->linesize[2] + col] = data[2];
data += 4;
}
img->video_frame->pts++;
}
But the colors in the exported video are wrong. The original heart is red. Can someone point me in the right direction? The encode.c example is useless sadly and on the Internet there is a lot of confusion about Y, Cr and Cb which I really don't understand. Please feel free to ask for more details. Many thanks.

Answer 1

You need to use libswscale to convert the source image data from RGB24 to YUV420P.
Something like:
int width = cairo_image_surface_get_width( surface );
int height = cairo_image_surface_get_height( surface );
int stride = cairo_image_surface_get_stride( surface );
uint8_t *pix = cairo_image_surface_get_data( surface );
uint8_t *data[1] = { pix };
int linesize[1] = { stride };
struct SwsContext *sws_ctx = sws_getContext(width, height, AV_PIX_FMT_RGB24 ,
width, height, AV_PIX_FMT_YUV420P,
SWS_BILINEAR, NULL, NULL, NULL);
sws_scale(sws_ctx, data, linesize, 0, height,
img->video_frame->data, img->video_frame->linesize);
sws_freeContext(sws_ctx);
See the example here: scaling_video