diff --git a/src/libcamera/pipeline/simple/simple.cpp b/src/libcamera/pipeline/simple/simple.cpp
index 06532ed26..87b26d4a2 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/pipeline/simple/simple.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/pipeline/simple/simple.cpp
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <libcamera/camera.h>
 #include <libcamera/color_space.h>
 #include <libcamera/control_ids.h>
+#include <libcamera/pixel_format.h>
 #include <libcamera/request.h>
 #include <libcamera/stream.h>
 
@@ -261,6 +262,12 @@ static const SimplePipelineInfo supportedDevices[] = {
 	{ "sun6i-csi", {}, false },
 };
 
+bool isFormatRaw(const libcamera::PixelFormat &pixFmt)
+{
+	return libcamera::PixelFormatInfo::info(pixFmt).colourEncoding ==
+	       libcamera::PixelFormatInfo::ColourEncodingRAW;
+}
+
 } /* namespace */
 
 class SimpleCameraData : public Camera::Private
@@ -1424,7 +1431,7 @@ int SimplePipelineHandler::configure(Camera *camera, CameraConfiguration *c)
 
 		cfg.setStream(&data->streams_[i]);
 
-		if (data->useConversion_)
+		if (data->useConversion_ && !isFormatRaw(cfg.pixelFormat))
 			outputCfgs.push_back(cfg);
 	}