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xavierhollis

Advice for converting this High 10@L5 AVC (10-bit H.264) anime file?

I have a large anime movie file that my plex server is struggling to play.

I believe the problem is that it has a codec called High 10@L5 AVC (10-bit H.264), which most devices do not support. High 10@L5 AVC (10-bit H.264) to my understanding is favoured by anime fans, predominantly because it avoiding banding.

Here is the full specifications for the file i gathered from the MediaInfo app:

Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : High 10@L5 Format settings : CABAC / 6 Ref Frames Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, Reference frames : 6 frames Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Duration : 1 h 0 min Bit rate : 18.5 Mb/s Width : 1 920 pixels Height : 1 080 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 10 bits Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.372 Stream size : 7.88 GiB (85%) Title : JP-BD [Hark0n] Writing library : x264 core 152 r2851 ba24899 Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=6 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=34 / lookahead_threads=2 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=10 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=1 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc=crf / mbtree=0 / crf=17.0 / qcomp=0.70 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.20 / aq=1:1.00 Language : Japanese Default : Yes Forced : No

Audio #1 ID : 2 Format : FLAC Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec Codec ID : A_FLAC Duration : 1 h 0 min Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 635 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 11.719 FPS (4096 SPF) Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossless Stream size : 277 MiB (3%) Title : US-BD (Viz Media/Studiopolis) Writing library : libFLAC 20080709 (2008-07-09) Language : English Default : Yes Forced : Yes MD5 of the unencoded content : 0CADA3D2516AE8028DE9D8B2FA2220C4

Audio #2 ID : 3 Format : FLAC Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec Codec ID : A_FLAC Duration : 1 h 0 min Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 698 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 11.719 FPS (4096 SPF) Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossless Stream size : 305 MiB (3%) Title : JP-BD (Stereo) Writing library : libFLAC 1.2.1 (2007-09-17) Language : Japanese Default : No Forced : No MD5 of the unencoded content : 12A614A58C13B3BB1366017DA0315EBF

Audio #3 ID : 4 Format : FLAC Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec Codec ID : A_FLAC Duration : 1 h 0 min Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 465 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 11.719 FPS (4096 SPF) Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossless Stream size : 203 MiB (2%) Title : JP-BD (Mono) Writing library : libFLAC 1.2.1 (2007-09-17) Language : Japanese Default : No Forced : No MD5 of the unencoded content : 94457D661A79820D67D7DCF3C314EF18

Audio #4 ID : 5 Format : FLAC Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec Codec ID : A_FLAC Duration : 1 h 0 min Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 779 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 11.719 FPS (4096 SPF) Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossless Stream size : 340 MiB (4%) Title : US-VHS (Pioneer/Optimum Productions - DiC music) [Hark0n edit] Writing library : libFLAC 20080709 (2008-07-09) Language : English Default : No Forced : No MD5 of the unencoded content : BA385028D96070EB5C43DA16B09423E8

Audio #5 ID : 6 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Commercial name : Dolby Digital Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 1 h 0 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 192 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 83.6 MiB (1%) Title : US-DVD (Pioneer/Optimum Productions - Japanese music) Language : English Service kind : Complete Main Default : No Forced : No Dialog Normalization : -31 dB compr : 5.74 dB dynrng : 5.88 dB dsurmod : Not Dolby Surround encoded mixlevel : 105 dB roomtyp : Small dialnorm_Average : -31 dB dialnorm_Minimum : -31 dB dialnorm_Maximum : -31 dB

Audio #6 ID : 7 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Commercial name : Dolby Digital Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 1 h 1 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 384 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 168 MiB (2%) Title : Isolated Score (JP-DVD) Service kind : Complete Main Default : No Forced : No Dialog Normalization : -31 dB compr : 8.38 dB dialnorm_Average : -31 dB dialnorm_Minimum : -31 dB dialnorm_Maximum : -31 dB

Text #1 ID : 8 Format : ASS Codec ID : S_TEXT/ASS Codec ID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha Duration : 58 min 52 s Bit rate : 155 b/s Frame rate : 0.134 FPS Count of elements : 474 Compression mode : Lossless Stream size : 66.9 KiB (0%) Title : English Signs & Songs [Judgment/R1 script] Language : English Default : Yes Forced : Yes

Text #2 ID : 9 Format : ASS Codec ID : S_TEXT/ASS Codec ID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha Duration : 52 min 9 s Bit rate : 133 b/s Frame rate : 0.096 FPS Count of elements : 301 Compression mode : Lossless Stream size : 50.9 KiB (0%) Title : English Signs [Judgment/R1 script] Language : English Default : No Forced : No

Text #3 ID : 10 Format : ASS Codec ID : S_TEXT/ASS Codec ID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha Duration : 1 h 0 min Bit rate : 217 b/s Frame rate : 0.298 FPS Count of elements : 1089 Compression mode : Lossless Stream size : 97.0 KiB (0%) Title : English Dialogue (Multicolor) [Judgment/R1 script] CUSTOM Language : Japanese Default : No Forced : No

Text #4 ID : 11 Format : ASS Codec ID : S_TEXT/ASS Codec ID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha Duration : 1 h 0 min Bit rate : 218 b/s Frame rate : 0.299 FPS Count of elements : 1088 Compression mode : Lossless Stream size : 97.0 KiB (0%) Title : English Dialogue (Simple with Insert song) [Judgment/R1 script] Language : Japanese Default : No Forced : No

My client devices is a FireTVCube 3rd gen and a Samung Galaxy A55 phone.

I want the file to play but I also don't want the audio and video to be Lossless.

Is this possible and if so what settings should I use?

Posted Jan 10, 2026, 12:34 AM UTC

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