On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Thomas Guymer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just updated my x264 installation to use 0.129 from Packam > (previously > it was 0.128 from Packman) on openSUSE 12.2 and now my scripts to encode > videos are not working because they say "x264 [error]: baseline profile > doesn't > support a bit depth of 10". I managed to trace the problem to x264 suddenly > being shipped in 10-bit mode - was this a mistake? I note that you were the > one who provided the latest update. Does Packman intend on continuing to ship > x264 in 10-bit mode? Is there a work around for using 10-bit mode and > "-profile > baseline" simultaneously?
Hi, Tom, Let's `default to open` so others with the same problem can find the answer. Here's my concern when enable `10 bit` sample depth for x264: Benefits: * It will loss less quality while processing. * It will reduce the file size and improve the quality. * It is the default setting for Windows encoding application MeGUI, which is popular among youtube uploaders. So there must be something good in this mode. Shortcomings: * It consumes a little more resources when decoding. * It can't use baseline/main/high profiles. (I didn't know it before, because I always use --preset and --tune combination as upstream advised) Under such concern, I enabled the 10bit depth. So can you explain under what situation you need to encode with a `baseline` profile? As I know, such profile are pretty _basic_, it limits usage of many advanced features of x264 so that it can't show the advantage of using x264 to encode. If you're encoding a video, actually high444 profile is the most commonly used one. it can produce HD video with an acceptable size. Greetings Marguerite _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
