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Old 23rd February 2021, 19:23   #13  |  Link
benwaggoner
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Originally Posted by Tenkei View Post
But what about device compatibility? If specification for a device says it supports "Main 10 Profile Level 4.1", does that mean main tier and high tier or just main? AFAIK Main 10 profile does not mean main tier, so I'm a little confused. If it's just main, can I assume that device supporting 4.1 main tier would also run 4.0 high?
Assume it's Main Tier unless otherwise specified.

The primary exception I can think if is that UHD Blu-ray's peak bitrate is a lot higher than 40 Mbps, so that probably should be done at High Tier and then --vbv-bufsize and --vbv-maxrate specified per the BD spec.
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