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Hi10P and 8-bit encodes
eliador:
--- Quote from: Jackstick on December 26, 2011, 09:36:35 PM ---I come to BakaBT when I want to weed out the inferior. I think you guys are losing sight of the purpose of BakaBT if you expect them to cater to *everyone*.
Quality doesn't come without change and sacrifice. You may have to seed more than you want to, you may have to use a different video program, and you may have to keep your damn plugins up to date. If your computer sucks, you may have to buy a new one or just stick with SD or 720p video for now.
Also, you need to have reasonable expectations. Netbooks and tablets are not meant for high quality high definition videos, and due to their screen size they probably never will be meant for HD video. Laptops from 2007 are going to have trouble keeping up with today's technology. Remember that you are getting these videos for *free*.
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i don't see the point here : this post is about 8/10 bits encoding and how the community (fansubbers, "provider" like BakaBT and us, the public/fan) can handle/cope with the transition ... if it happens. we can migrate to 10-bit without losing SD releases : it seems to me you think we'll get only HD releases (so the technical issues some have with 10-bits decoding AND a large resolution that some hardware *like my netbook* can not handle).
as for me i'll be a target audience for SD 480p and HD 720p on 10-bit the day any player can handle it with GPU acceleration : i still don't see the point of 1080p even if BR source exists (maybe for movie and TV shows, even on these size is too much and the few times i watched 1080p vs 720p i really didn't see the difference *it was on a big TV*)
that's the problem i've got with your post : you mix 8/10 bits and SD/HD. and for the free argument ... well to me it's kind of "end of discussion, please upgrade and don't complain" one that i really don't like :-\
OnDeed:
--- Quote from: mikezilla2 on December 26, 2011, 10:41:35 PM ---slightly off topic but when do you think youl have the right hardware to make 1080p 10 bit encodes ondeed ?
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It's actually not as much a problem of hardware available - I could do blurays (but right now I was wondering if 8bit would be perhaps better after all). But I don't have many candidates for such rips, except Bubblegum Crisis (now, if Zeorymer for example appeared on the web...). And maybe some stuff Dragon191 wanted to release, should he decide to not do it...
erejnion:
--- Quote from: garretn on December 26, 2011, 10:09:43 PM ---The poll probably should have been something more along the lines of whether or not the transient stage is complete, along with options related to it. Such as --
* The transition stage should be considered complete, remove the dedicated 8-bit slots
* The transition stage should be re-evaluated in 6 months
* The transition stage should be re-evaluated in a year
I personally would have voted for 6 months if the above poll actually existed. My personal reasons being that my hardware is fine, but my software (A powerful HTPC, which is just a normal PC in a fancy box, running XBMC) isn't there yet.
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Agreed. For the record, with the risk of repeating myself, I would vote for "6 months" too.
zrdb:
The shit you say 10 bit is better than 8 bit-I've been to numerous forums debating this sordid subject-the supposed advantages-1-reduced banding-fact, I've seen numerous 8 bit encodes with little or no banding while I've seen 10 bit ones that looked like rainbows. 2-smaller file sizes-I've seen numerous 10 bit encodes that were 60 to 100 megs bigger than 8 bit ones which-incidently looked way better than the 10 bit ones. So shit on 10 bit being better than 8 bit encodes-all it did was break playback compatibility with hardware media players like the Popcorn Hour A300, anime subbers are known to be elitist stuckup jerks who jump on the newest gold plated Cadillac that drives by just because it's shiny and brand new-legends in their own minds. So again-bullshit on 10 bit encoding being superior to 8 bit.
Aerah:
In the spirit of "elitist stuckup jerks", it would make sense to completely get rid of AVI/XVID encodes as 8-bit is the new XVID...
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