2011-09-30, 08:55
CrystalP Wrote:Does XBMC play those releases correctly when hardware acceleration is disabled?
No. Currently the only solution to watch 10-bit video with XBMC is to transcode it to 8-bit.
Handbrake has a new-enough version of ffmpeg that it can transcode from 10-bit. It can't yet produce 10-bit, and the author isn't particularly interested in getting it to do so.
I have to say that I don't mind the concept of 10-bit - better quality with smaller filesize (and reduced banding) is definitely a good achievement. However, forcing it on people when there is still so little support is aggravating.