Which media players can play 10-bit H264 videos and Bluray rips smoothly?

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spyfall
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Your recommendations are welcome.

ritom
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You can use GNOME Mplayer, SMPlayer or VLC. All of them worked great for me, however the "smoothly" part will depend on your hardware resources.

spyfall
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Thanks.

ssdclickofdeath
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Do you mean hardware or software media players?

spyfall
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I was referring to software, such as VLC media player or Totem. But if you have suggestions about hardware, I would like to know about them too.

Darksoul71
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I can not commenct on 10 Bit h264 stuff since I never tried but general I find Mplayer (or SMPlayer / GMplayer) much less demanding than Totem or VLC. Especially when ressources are limited. For playing back 1080p stuff in H264 you eihter need hardware acceleration (Intel HD graphic only) or simply enough CPU power to decode things.

HTH,
Holger

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Hardware acceleration is available on older Nvidia cards that have been reverse-engineered, too.