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2016-07-08, 03:22
(This post was last modified: 2016-07-08, 03:26 by AZmedia.)
I'm a former MB user for several years, also been using PowerDVD for the last 3 yrs. We are getting ready to change our 30,000 fie NAS back to a media player platform so the HEVC discussion is of importance.
Power DVD 16 allows us to play 10bit HEVC MKV videos with no hardware changes to our PC. Previously to this upgrade, PDVD 14 & 15 would allow HEVC playback as long as it was not 10bit. Our current laptop is a Dell XPS from 2012 that runs PDVD 16. It has a Intel Dual Core i7-2620M 2.7GHz (Sandy Bridge). This laptop is a dual GPU system, uses Intel HD and Nvidia GT540M.
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I wouldn't exactly trust people, who thought Hi10P was a good idea as a release format, on the topic of what is practical for video encoding.
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Having to buy relatively expensive Hardware just to Software decode decent bitrate 1080p H264 Hi10P, because some "Group" thought it was a good idea at the time shows that this custom codec really was not meant for widespread distribution.
No Hardware decoder on any hardware platform supports Hi10P and that says it all really.