Archive:Hi10P

Currently XBMC does not support the h.264 Hi10P profile. Support for this profile will come when an update of FFmpeg is applied to DVDPlayer (XBMC's video player component). The patch has been done, but has not yet been applied to XBMC's mainline trunk (code): https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/810

Once added to the main codebase, all future nightly/monthly builds will contain Hi10P playback. The first stable version with Hi10P support is planned to be XBMC v12 (Frodo).

Due to recent interests in the Hi10P profile, spurred by its somewhat recent addition to x264 (a free software library for encoding video streams into the h.264 format), this page was created to list alternative ways to have Hi10P playback while using XBMC.

Unofficial builds

Windows

• 2012-04-02 XBMC Windows build by forum user Shine: http://www.mediafire.com/?p08gpzy8p8ipxvz
• XBMC with replacement DSPlayer has been updated again (Windows only). See DSPlayer and http://dsplayer.passion-xbmc.org
• 2011-12-09 XBMC Windows build by forum user bambi73: http://www.mediafire.com/?e9h77fr86d04zef

Linux

• XBMC for Linux can be compiled to use an external install of ffmpeg (which would support Hi10P).
• Build/install script from forum user zyro: https://github.com/zyro/ffmpeg_xbmc

Mac OS X

• None known at this time.

External players

XBMC can be set up to use an external player for video playback, while still using XBMC for the interface.

Windows

• Forums:External Player Support Thread on the XBMC forums
• Forums:Working External Player Solution

See also

• XBMC forum thread about Hi10P support