I have a 10-bit H264 video, but I can't play it in Totem or VLC. I tried recompiling libx264 with 10-bit support after removing libx264-116, but it doesn't seem to work. VLC does not use GStreamer, but seems to also use libx264.
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Any chance you can add a link to an example of such a video? – Oct 02 '11 at 19:12
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Have you tried installing libavcodec-extra-52 from Medibuntu repository? http://medibuntu.org/repository.php – Stefano Oct 02 '11 at 20:06
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fossfreedom: I don't have a small video file. What I have here is a 169MB file. – Oct 03 '11 at 05:47
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Pisu: I tried it, but still didn't work. – Oct 03 '11 at 05:48
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Have you tried mplayer? According to MPlayer 1.0rc3 release - it support 10-bit H264 videos. And for a nice GUI for mplayer, you could checkout smplayer
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I currently use MPlayer2 and SMPlayer, but Totem (and GStreamer) are faster in my netbook and my desktop. I can't even play videos in SMPlayer in my netbook - I need to move the videos to my desktop to view them (though a lot of times, the video gets unsynchronized with the audio). Other videos play fine in Totem on my netbook. – Arnel A. Borja Feb 12 '12 at 04:32
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@ArnelA.Borja Have you tried using testing repository or compiling from source? sometimes the current repositories aren't that up-to-date or some bug fixed upstream might not have synced up in the repositories yet. – Maverick Feb 12 '12 at 14:06
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I use Ubuntu not Debian, but I use the Precise Alpha 2 (which is based on Debian Testing). I also tried to compile from source before. – Arnel A. Borja Feb 12 '12 at 22:00
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You need to recompile gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg with your libx264 compatible to 10 bits h264 codec. Or compile VLC with it. Remember to use the correct --prefix in ./configure. I recommend using VLC in this case.
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I tried to recompile the packages from the Ubuntu repositories but it still doesn't work. Maybe there's something missing? I used the x264 (added 10-bits option), libav and gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg source packages. – Oct 07 '11 at 10:00
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VLC 1.2.x (from the nightlies) and Mplayer2 supports h264 10 bits depth.
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1I'm currently using Mplayer2 and VLC from the Ubuntu PPA play 10-bit h264 videos, but they are slower compared to Totem (especially unstable VLC, the video is unviewable, while the video in Mplayer2 always gets unsynchronized with the audio). – Arnel A. Borja Dec 25 '11 at 06:20