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I got Hi10p working in linux last night using an external ffmpeg. Expect a posting around 19:00 Eastern with a link to trac, which will have a patch that will turn off VDPAU automatically (I don't use VAAPI or other hardware acceleration, so others will have to adapt patch and test).
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Excellent. Do you have a public git repository with the patch applied? I'll have to see if I can get OpenELEC compiling and point it at your changes.
Unfortunately due to a number of factors (sick, building a new computer to replace my parent's dying one, job interviews) I haven't had any time to look at this so far this week.
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2011-10-09, 05:28
(This post was last modified: 2011-10-09, 05:32 by hikaricore.)
Today I facepalmed something fierce. Eclipse is temporarily back for the final series of Shakugan no Shana and what do they release? SD XviD & 720 Hi10P. Even the dead groups are doing it. >.> I'm half-expecting Dattebayo to suddenly pop back up just so they can join in the fun.
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While doki is also doing the series and one of the few groups left encoding in 8bit, Eclipse is obviously the group to go. So another series for which we'll have to rely on someone doing a reencode. Hopefully not for too long.
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Doki as a group are actually quite reasonable, as I've mentioned earlier in this thread when the whole 10bit topic came up they actually made a post asking their userbase what they thought of the whole thing instead of taking the "gtfo if you don't like it" route that several other groups such as Commie did. Now we just have to hope they don't drop it due to oversubbing. :p
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GG has fallen too, but they didn't label or mention it at all. Not that it matters much; they've dropped almost every show they picked up. Ironically the ones they did release were no smaller for file size (more quality per meg, maybe, but come on).
I noticed a group called EightBit is releasing a lot of other groups subs using 8-bit (h.246 High Profile) video. I'd love to get in touch with them and help out, as I was thinking of making some normal "8bit" encodes with multiple (when applicable) sub tracks (from raws, that is. None of this transcoding 10bit to 8bit sillyness).
I'm still trying to make a wiki page for the brave who want to get an external player working with XBMC, but until I do it myself I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it. If anyone has gotten it to work and wants to share the steps they've taken, feel free to share it here and I'll throw it up on the wiki.
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Oh, and what's with groups dropping 8-bit h.264, but still holding onto divx?
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Turns out Eclipse is releasing both 8-bit and 10-bit. The 8-bit came a couple of days later. However, the 8-bit are smaller, which means either lower quality, or much higher encode times (or both).
My 8-bit transcodes are generally smaller than the 10-bit releases with essentially imperceptible differences (SSIM >0.99, most ~0.995) but some (including my transcode of Eclipse's Shana) end up being larger. I'm using CRF 20 with pretty aggressive encoding options and most shows are going at about 30 FPS on my i7 860 (4 cores/8 threads) running full-bore.
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I'd be happy to set you up a brief guide for DSPlayer/10bit, the only thing is DSPlayer itself (as far as I know) excludes the ability to switch audio stream, and also there seems to be a bug with the subtitle engine which can cause frustrating crashes when combined with *some* subs embedded into MKV (possibly complicated ASS ones but I've not worked out the exact pattern).
I'm hoping this will be fixed potentially even though the DSPlayer project is officially dead (Blinkseb has said he *might* have time to take a look), but that does make me wonder whether you want to include it.
It's a way to deal with the issue for now if they're on the Win platform, but until/if that sub bug gets fixed, it's not perfect.
Yeah, I keep seeing that setting up the external player is turning into just one step in the process. The next is getting that external player to actually work correctly! Feel free to wait for a bug fix or to post something now, or whatever. DSPlayer is kind of a dead end due to no one actively developing it.