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(2015-01-09, 14:58)Bigmuscle Wrote: Why Kodi Software decoder is not good by 10bit
You know when you see artifacts in the ones that do "hardware decoding" for Hi10P? That's because they're using the 8bit decoder, which works on some frames of the video, because those frames are the same as normal "8bit" H.264 videos. When ever they come across parts of the video that are Hi10P, then you see the artifacts.
There is no way to have both hardware decoding and remove the artifacts. It's simply not possible.
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If it were that easy then the devs would have already done such optimizations :)
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Ok and now?? Use you Kodi or other player as VLC,Infuse??
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2015-01-09, 20:03
(This post was last modified: 2015-01-09, 20:03 by Ned Scott.)
Sometimes I use Kodi, sometimes I use nPlayer, sometimes I use VLC.
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Ah ok. Why can Infuse 10bit hardware decoding but with artifact?? What is thas for technique?? Trick?? I mean the playback is smooth and battery consumtion ok.
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They can't. It still has artifacts. I tried it myself because I already own Infuse.
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I know with artfacts but the playback is very smooth!! Is this trick??
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It is broken. It is playing the video back using the normal h.264 "8bit" profiles. We will not intentionally break our player to do the same.
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Kodi has always used videotoolbox and A7/A8 cannot hardware decode 10bit.