
Originally Posted by
Glordit
If it's 10bit you are worried about. I am sad to say it is still an issue, the quickest and easiest way to get around it. Just use handbrake/MeGUI to encode it to normal 8bit, sadly 10bit requires a lot more power and the RPi falls short on that (my 1.2Ghz Dual Core LG phone cant play it either) sadly there is no other way around this.
Quality Wise 10bit just has better compression vs 8bit. Two videos that are encoded identical, the 8 Bit would be 500Mb where the 10 bit would be about 270/300. (this is all dependant on many other factors, Deblocking, Ref Frames, Audio, Motion Estimation and what not).