Would you download a ~1GB 720p movie rip if it used 10-bit HEVC? Pic related is not 10-bit HEVC btw.
HEVC would make a ~1GB 720p movie look twice as good as a ~1GB 720p movie. 10-bit HEVC would go one step further and reduce color banding and improve quality a little bit for the same bitrate especially in dark scenes.
10-bit x265 encoder: builds.x265.eu
I will when I get a GPU that supports 10-bit HEVC. Right now it seriously violates my CPU.
>Right now it seriously violates my CPU.
I'm not talking about 10-bit HEVC video streams with 20+Mbps, just ~1Mbps. Low bit-rate content is easier to decode right?
HEVC isn't really for 720p. It doesn't offer much over h.264 at that resolution, though it will hold together at lower bitrates. And 10bit won't reduce banding unless you're doing something to the source that would introduce it. An 8 bit encode of an 8 bit source doesn't add banding. To reduce banding requires you to deband. 10 bit allows you to retain high bit depth debanding.
You should use 10 bit anyway for the compression gain, it's just not gonna magically deband.
Would I watch YIFY? If there was nothing else.
>Would I watch YIFY? If there was nothing else.
Not saying that, YIFY uses 8-bit H264 so of course it looks like shit. But if 10-bit HEVC were used then it would look twice as good and then some.
Anyway I don't think you understand how bad 8-bit encoders are. At low YIFY bitrates they introduce color banding and extra artifacts. I know 10-bit does not deband but it retains more shades of colors which reduces color banding across all bitrates.
Also what do you mean HEVC isn't really for 720p? It's ~50% more efficient compared to H264 across all resolutions right?
I'd pick HEVC or h264 any day, any time, but it's still not picking up popularity much yet. It's a clearly superior successor to h264 in every way and people's only complaints are inefficient encode/decode, but hardware for that is catching up as well.
I bought an Nvidia GTX 1070 and this thing packs 10-bit (and 12-bit?) 4K HEVC encoders/decoders so this is what more hardware needs.
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>Also what do you mean HEVC isn't really for 720p? It's ~50% more efficient compared to H264 across all resolutions right?
No. 4K and up, low bitrate, it achieves its 50% mark. At lower resolutions and higher bitrates, H.264 can even win out, though HEVC is getting better at a pretty good clip. Eventually it will win out at every resolution and CRF, but it's not quite there yet.
Have you even used the encoder I posted?
x265 1.9+217 is pretty fucking dank senpai.
I'll wait for 2.0.