2011-10-26, 01:33
compcentral Wrote:Yes, an art form that is rarely used in mainstream movies/tv. My whole point is that 10-bit encoding hasn't been used to encode the majority of mainstream content yet and therefore isn't a problem for most people... wouldn't you agree?
If so, why worry about it now when it may be replaced by h.265 soon?
There really isn't anything to "worry" about. The functionality is already in place in ffmpeg. There is a lot of non-10-bit work that gets patched into ffmpeg on a regular basis, including important security patches. It's JMO that a major XBMC release should bring in the latest version of ffmpeg... but again, that's JMO. The general project philosophy seems to be a focus on the library aspect of XBMC, and the player role isn't that important. I don't think that would necessarily be a bad idea, if integration of third-party media players was more advanced. Or, at least, if there was an integration of a well-established multi-platform player like mplayer2 so that a majority of the users (Windows, Linux, OS X) could enjoy the latest goodies.
H.265 is probably a long ways off, not to mention the fact that the increased computational requirements might hinder adoption. Nevertheless, 10-bit is here now... ordered chapters and linked segments are upon us... multi-threaded decoding for non-accelerated content has been supported in ffmpeg for several months.
I'm not a fan of being shoe-horned by these anime fansubber dweebs and their fickle encoding methods, so I don't think XBMC development should just yield to their flavor of the day. I just support more focus on better / more flexible player options.