[GreenEyez]

Ned - you've commented that the Eden soft-freeze means that 10-bit will not be included in Eden. Given the fact that people are being affected by this now, and the upstream work has been done, what is the reasoning?

I would have thought that "10-bit encode support" would be a major selling point for Eden. Yes - it's only for people who have machines who can handle it. I personally built an HTPC that was capable of decoding H.264 high profile back in the day when XBMC didn't support hardware decoding of that. I'm more than willing to upgrade that very machine (if needed) to be able to play back 10-bit. If XBMC doesn't integrate 10-bit though then I don't have that option at all.

And it's not as though people are only just now bringing this up. We've been saying for months that most of the fansub groups are going to be moving to 10-bit only. It appears that we weren't believed ... that it would only be a small group of fansubbers changing ... that there would be "choice".

The last week has proved otherwise.

BTW, we've been arguing on those forums for months as well that the infrastructure isn't ready except in a few very specific cases. In every case the response has basically been "use the exact same setup as me or STFU".

The reason is simple : XBMC devs probably have other stuff on their agenda, like getting the more important Audio Engine framework and DVR functionality working than banging their heads about some guys who have the nerve to call themselves encoders... .Both Scene and non-Scene encoders have yet to release 10bit encodes, and don`t have any plans for it in the near future.