What is the difference between H264 and Hi10p? If there's a difference and it's a really long explanation, I'd be happy with just knowing which would be better quality. Btw, Est is the best Blade Dance (I won't kill you since I'm not the other guy).
Hi10p is a profile that lets you encode h264 videos in 10bit colour instead of the default 8bit colour. This generally leads to a slight reduction in filesize and better gradients with less banding across the board, at the cost of requiring extra CPU power to decode the video.
So what people refer to as Hi10p is actually a subset of h264 (all "Hi10p" videos are encoded in h264, but not all h264 videos are "Hi10p") but fansub.co and such use it to mean "10bit" and h264 to mean "8bit". Which isn't really correct, but I guess it's not a huge deal.
But in short, the stuff labelled Hi10p will be better quality as long as your computer or device can handle it. Most groups have switched over to the format exclusively at this point anyway; those that still do encodes in the 8bit format usually just do them on the side for the sake of compatibility with older PCs and hardware media players.
So what people refer to as Hi10p is actually a subset of h264 (all "Hi10p" videos are encoded in h264, but not all h264 videos are "Hi10p") but fansub.co and such use it to mean "10bit" and h264 to mean "8bit". Which isn't really correct, but I guess it's not a huge deal.
But in short, the stuff labelled Hi10p will be better quality as long as your computer or device can handle it. Most groups have switched over to the format exclusively at this point anyway; those that still do encodes in the 8bit format usually just do them on the side for the sake of compatibility with older PCs and hardware media players.
