New guide for deepcolor/high bit-depth

[jmac698]

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/High_bit-depth_Support_with_Avisynth

Comments here. Any plugins I should include?

[kolak]

Question- how to import 10bit, use dithering and output to 8bit :) ?

Each of these plugins seams to use different ways of dealing with 10bit- can they work together?

Thanks,
Andrew

[Yellow_]

The Bluray standard does not support deepcolor (using full-range 8 bit video)

I query (using full-range 8 bit), it implies deepcolor is achievable with full range 8bit where if I understand correctly 'full range' 8bit and only when it is 'full range' chroma as well as luma, is xvYCC aka xvcolor extended gamut, not deepcolor.

Isn't deep color only achievable with > 8bit?

[Mounir]

Jmac can you post a sample of a video 8 bit vs 10bit

[Chikuzen]

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/High_bit-depth_Support_with_Avisynth

Comments here. Any plugins I should include?
flash3kyuu_deband
You can encode out of AVIsynth to 10bit x264 via AVS2yuv or AVS2pipe.
this is wrong.
avs2pipe can output only yuv4mpeg2.
if you want to output raw video, you should use avs2pipemod instead of avs2pipe.

[jmac698]

Updated. I'll try these all out myself when I get time, then I can answer your more specific questions.

[jmac698]

chikuzen,
can you tell me format for 16bit interleaved output for 10bit x264? I'd like to support more modes with my scripts.

[Chikuzen]

chikuzen,
can you tell me format for 16bit interleaved output for 10bit x264? I'd like to support more modes with my scripts.

avs2pipemod -rawvideo "script.avs" | x264-10bit --demuxer raw --input-depth 16 --input-res 1280x720 --fps 24 --output "out.mp4" -

[jmac698]

ch,
Thanks, but I mean the format of the video planes.

[jmac698]

Bump.
Just to point out this is updated quite a bit. There is pretty good support for using Avisynth on high bit-depth sources now. You can directly read 16 bit output from ffmpeg with rawsource, for example. ffms2mod also returns a native 16bit clip (that is, a special stacked 16bit video clip).

For examples of 8bit vs 10bit, see
http://haruhichan.com/wpblog/?p=205
Viz.

http://blisswater.info/comparison/elephantsdream/

[jmac698]

Significant update, much better writing (sheesh!)

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/High_bit-depth_Support_with_Avisynth