Generally by setting the caps in whatever language you are using. Looking at some of the command line examples, you can see it getting set to what they want.... <a href="http://www.noah.org/wiki/video_4_linux_2_notes">http://www.noah.org/wiki/video_4_linux_2_notes</a> mpegts or any mpeg is just about always YUV (420 mostly, but in higher end encoders 422) <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Chuck Crisler <<a href="mailto:ccrisler@mutualink.net" target="_blank">ccrisler@mutualink.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">How do you specify the capture format and resolution on the V4L2src plugin? Where is the mpegts generated, or is it captured from the device in that format? Does the mpegts contain raw YUV/RGB data or is it encoded? Thank you! Chuck Crisler _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </blockquote></div>