Re: Bug#707740: general: fails with video Hi10p

[Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala@pp1.inet.fi>]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Hi10p is a useless hack that makes videos unreadable with hardware
> acceleration. I wouldn’t recommend using it in the general case. The

The "useless hack" part is false. 10-bit H264 is a clear improvement in
video compression for some types of videos. Existing hardware video
accelerators[1] lack support for decoding it, but that does not make it
useless.

[1] "Accelerators" is a somewhat misleading term, as typically
multithreaded software decoding on modern AMD64 CPUs is faster.