Just out of curiosity. Why can the Pi3 run x265 pretty fine whereas x264 still gives artifacting on 10bit video? I’d assume that 10bit is just too much for the processor to render whereas x265 allows for the same quality at a lower bitrate. Which therefore allows the Pi to render it since the bitra…

There are no known hardware decoders for 10-bit H264 in the world. It was a format that was pretty much only used by a few anime groups, so no one bothered. Parts of 8-bit x265 can be offloaded to the GPU on Pi. Vero 4K can play back 8-bit and 10-bit H265, but 10-bit H264 is not possible. There is…

10 Bit H265 vs H264 decoding

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sam_nazarko 6 June 2017 17:57 4

It will play HEVC in 10-bit
But not H264 in 10-bit. You need a very powerful Intel PC for that.