magao Wrote:No. Currently the only solution to watch 10-bit video with XBMC is to transcode it to 8-bit.
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Or to use DSPlayer with LAV Video Decoder/External player
DVDPlayer doesn't play them properly even in CPU though, it kinda looks like its still trying to treat them as 8bit video, so the colour depth is all messed up, and scenes with more colour gradients going on suffer.
It would be good if it could be implemented sooner rather than later though, out of my family members several of us watch anime, so 10bit is relevant enough for me I'd like it to be in DVDPlayer as a fallback.
Tbh, much as the move seems a little premature, I can understand it, sometimes it makes staggering space efficiency improvements (series in 1080p 8bit, 21GB, series in 1080p 10bit, 11GB!!), with no loss or sometimes even picture quality gain; and in a lot of ways its like when H264 started to supersede Xvid/Divx; there was no GPU/Hardware accelleration for H264 back then either and it used more CPU time than both, but the efficiency improvements made people opt for it and nowadays it is seen a normal.
From the files I've seen, the picture quality is no worse, sometimes better (especially with gradiants, colour smoothness if you will) whereas filesize is typically reduced by 10-40%.
Last I checked, small filesize better picture was the main objective of video compression formats, rather than the CPU runtime required to decode them; which is a shame; but it's a necessary step in progress and the complaints seem to me to feel very similar to those used back in 2005. I do use some machines that utilise DXVA/similar, but sometimes you have to upgrade hardware as part of progress.
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