[magao]

10-bit h264 requires moving to FFmpeg head.
10-bit h264 is there but still being worked on by FFmpeg devs.
FFmpeg head will not compile for iOS.
FFmpeg has many corner decoder cases to check, verify, fix if broke.

Thanks davilla - that's exactly the kind of information I was looking for. As far as I could tell, 10-bit support in ffmpeg was fairly complete, but I've been looking at it very much from the outside.

Should we delay a release while we wait for 10-bit h264 in FFmpeg to complete ?

Given those issues, definitely not.

I think there may have been a lot less aggravation and discussion if this had been made clear earlier. I (and others I think) were under the impression that ffmpeg 10-bit support "simply" required whatever work was necessary to integrate ffmpeg. I think I got this impression because someone successfully did the integration for mplayer2. Also there were several comments along the way to the effect that a newer version of ffmpeg would be incorporated into Eden ... so I thought I was merely pushing for something to get done earlier, rather than being an additional feature.

I might have a look at exactly what version of mplayer2 has 10-bit integrated and see what hoops they had to jump through to make it work.