2015-11-28, 14:40
(2015-11-25, 17:35)Justkidding Wrote: AIUI HEVC 10Bit Content has better colors. I want to rip my BluRays and put them on my NAS so I thought when I rip them to HEVC 10Bit the color would be better. Did I understand it wrongly?
Blu-ray is 8bit 4:2:0 on the disc (whether it is H264/AVC, VC-1 or MPEG2), so you are starting with an 8 bit source. For the highest quality you are best off ripping but not recompressing, as any recompression will reduce your quality. However unrecompressed Blu-rays take up a lot of space, even if you strip out the extras, audio tracks and subtitles you don't need etc. There is an argument that ripping 8 bit sources to 10 bit allows for higher levels of compression, or delivers improved picture quality for a given data rate because you avoid truncation errors causing quality issues.
The other thing to be aware of is that HEVC/H265 compression is MUCH (orders of magnitude) slower than AVC/H264, and there are still question marks over how good the software HEVC/H265 encoders really are at the moment. You'll need a powerful PC to do the ripping - and even then it will be slower I suspect. A lot slower.