Any blockers to 10-bit VP9 encoding support?

Austin · December 29, 2025, 1:05am

With 10-bit processing available in Shotcut now, could libvpx-vp9 be flagged to support 10-bit encoding? I’m hoping all that needs to be done is add --enable-vp9-highbitdepth to the end of the highlighted line, and it just works. To actually use it, Export > Advanced > Other would need these lines:

pix_fmt=yuv420p10le
vprofile=2

I was about to try it out, but wanted to see if there were any obvious blockers before I invested a lot of time. Thanks!

github.com/mltframework/shotcut

scripts/build-shotcut.sh

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          if test 1 = "$FFMPEG_SUPPORT_FAAC" ; then
            CONFIG[0]="${CONFIG[0]} --enable-libfaac --enable-nonfree"
          fi
          if test 1 = "$FFMPEG_SUPPORT_H264" ; then
            CONFIG[0]="${CONFIG[0]} --enable-libx264"
          fi
          if test 1 = "$FFMPEG_SUPPORT_H265" ; then
            CONFIG[0]="${CONFIG[0]} --enable-libx265"
          fi
          if test 1 = "$FFMPEG_SUPPORT_LIBVPX" ; then
            CONFIG[0]="${CONFIG[0]} --enable-libvpx"
          fi
          if test 1 = "$FFMPEG_SUPPORT_OPUS" ; then
            CONFIG[0]="${CONFIG[0]} --enable-libopus"
          fi
          if test 1 = "$FFMPEG_SUPPORT_ZIMG" ; then
            CONFIG[0]="${CONFIG[0]} --enable-libzimg"
          fi
          if test 1 = "$FFMPEG_SUPPORT_QSV" && test "$TARGET_OS" != "Darwin" && test "$TARGET_OS" != "Linux" ; then
            CONFIG[0]="${CONFIG[0]} --enable-libmfx"
          fi

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