[brendch06]

I downloaded some 1080 files and XBMC is having trouble playing them. Here's the description of the files:

1920x1080, x264 10bit

English DTS 5.1 1509 kbps
English commentary 2.0 vorbis

10 bit encode. You need up to date decoders, like LAV, VLC 2.0 , some builds of mplayer, etc. No external players.

Playback is extremely slow, grainy, low quality - What's going on here? Can anyone help?

[vexation]

Pretty sure XBMC doesn't support 10 bit encodes yet. http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Hi10P_playback

[DDDamian]

Yep - not till a new version of FFMpeg is merged, which isn't going to be right away, although it's likely to happen in nightlies before Frodo.

For now you'd have to re-encode to play them in XBMC.

[brendch06]

Best way to do that? Would it be easier just to redownload something thats not 10 bit?

[magao]

To transcode your best bet is Handbrake. Probably best to just start with the High Profile preset.