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This file is 8bits. Nevertheless, DXVA2 works only on 8 bits. I haven't checked dropout with bamby73 version, but as i remember play is smooth. I have an i7@870 under Windows XP SP3 (so no DXVA2) but i7@870 is powerfull enough for 1080p + subtitles with lot of features.
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@bambi73: Do you use ffmpeg-mt in your build, or can you enable multithreading-flags somehow? It would appear that this is the cause of my dropped frames in very high bitrate videos.
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bambi73, yes I was asking you to publish the code for GPL compliance.
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As I recall, anime release groups have adopted new ways of encoding months before people could play them many times in the past.
No idea why they do this, you would think that if they go to the trouble to make things available for you to watch, that they would use a format people can play. Or is it done for the reason that they only want select groups of people to watch their releases? like some elitist nonsense?
So to get this right: dxva2 can't be used with these hi10 files? so ontop of lack of software player support, my htpc (asrock 330bd) won't be able to play these back at all?
Are these groups only allowing heir stuff to be played on high power machines then? it really does sound like elitist bollocks to me.
I take it you need the same £1000+ machine to re encode these too?
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(This post was last modified: 2011-11-27, 21:11 by alexrose1uk.)
You don't NEED a high power machine to run them at all, just something that wasn't dated 4+ years ago. I tested a 720p 10bit file on an X2 3800+, one of the oldest and slowest dual core chips on the market *released 2005* and it worked fine. The other week I bought a £70 CPU/Mobo/Cooler kit new from a large sales chain (so that should tell you something about how dated the parts were) as a quick upgrade present for a family member, this also handles 10bit 1080p absolutely fine; the vast majority of anything anywhere near modern should be able to play 10bit ok.
Your Asrock will struggle, simple because its coupled with a CPU that was never, ever aimed at any semi-demanding work at all, it was simply designed to be a low power, netbook/portable chip. Atom's aren't very good at decoding standard 8bit h264 video either, it's just a case they were lucky enough hardware came along they could bolt on to do the job.
It's not like 8bit has gone away either, there's usually someone doing a release or a reencode.
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I haven't had any troubles at all with 8 bit playback on my machine. Have yet to test 10 bit due to lack of software support.
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I just tested my collection against the new release and sent my results/debuglogs to you via PM, bambi. I've tested 9 files with ordered chapters, 5 play fine, 2 have some errors, 2 won't play at all. Things look quite promising.
@Death-Axe:
Fansubbing has always been pushing the limit. You can call them elitists (and by god, yes, often there is heavy autism at work, but you can impossibly deny the pure technical brilliance of many of the fansubbing works.)
Without fansubbing we'd probably still be on mp4/ASP in .avi for everything.
About the 10bit release of coalgirls' bakemono: This is the sickest release ever. Due to the heavy subtitling, my q6600 is maxed out to 90% on all 4 cores, using mpc-hc with the heavily optimized xy-vsfilter.
I am pointing this out because these (animated!) subtitles massively interfere with the whole performance/framedrop-issue, which could skew the perception of bambis hi10p playback-implementation. In jpsdrs screenshots, only the top one is correct, and also the one which is massively CPU-intensive. The broken one at the bottom happens if animation is disabled and does not need as much CPU.
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Bakemono coalgirl i've provided is 8 bits !!!!!. I use this file for subtitles testing purpose only. This file is very good to check subtitles implemented features and timing accuracy.
Watching almost only anime, i know sometimes subtitles feature are cpu intensive, this is why i've choosen to build my multimedia PC with an i7@870. With this, this file plays perfectly fine on xbmc, and CPU only, because i've Windows XP SP3, so no DVXA2.
Yes, anime fansubers are always seeking for the best of the best, without any consideration for any compliancy. Since more than a year, a lot of 1080p releases were at level5.1, breaking compliancy with a lot hardware players which are only level4.1 (except Boxee wich is pure SW decoding), but now with the 10bits it's over. They absolutely don't care about compliancy with HW players or peoples who have HW players. On the other hands, they are doing this freely and on their good will, so, in a way, they have the rigth to do what they want...