Here are the screenshots of HEVC 10-Bit 4:4:4 HW Acceleration working with Davinci Resolve for both playback (decoding) and rendering (encoding) of that test clip. It is really fast and works well, even the encoding is about Real Time, and it does not seem to break a sweat with decoding for playback.
Decoding:
https://behome.dyndns.info/index.php/s/SknLnYqsgT8eSeN
Encoding:
https://behome.dyndns.info/index.php/s/Cj4SWWdsx4YBcwe
So my preference would be for my "best quality" rendering:
- Nev (somehow) enables HEVC 4:4:4 HW Decoding = Good Chroma, Small(ish) File Size & does playback on modern CPU/GPU's combos
else... either of
- HEVC 4:2:0 PQ = Small(ish) File Size, plays back on existing GPU / CPU but has weird Chroma noise in some scenes
- AVC 4:2:2 PQ = Good Chroma, Large File Size (500mbps), will need to upgrade my HTPC CPUs to i7 for SW Decoding (I've got a 2nd hand i7-7700 coming to test)
FYI
- I'm use JRiver Media Center and I'm not going to change to MPC.
- Yup Camera records in 500Mbps AVC 4:2:2 in UHD 50fps, so the files are big!