2011-10-09, 23:48
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.
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.