Testing VLC 2.2.4 with 12bit HEVC Source file: Technotrend-Test-Card-720x576p-PAL.mpg (progressive 576p) Test encode files with no audio: video-x264-8bit-420.mp4 video-x265-8bit-420.mp4 video-x265-10bit-420.mp4 video-x265-10bit-444.mp4 video-x265-12bit-420.mp4 video-x265-12bit-444.mp4 VLC 2.2.4 plays everything except the 12bit files (green screen). PowerDVD 15 only plays 8bit and 10bit 4:2:0 - it doesn't play 4:4:4 or 12bit. MPC-HC with LAV plays everything except x265 12bit 4:4:4 (green vertical lines) smplayer plays all files including x265 12bit 4:4:4 The 10bit and 12bit files created using the AviSynth dither tools. For example: loadplugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\MeGUI\tools\dgindexnv\DGDecodeNV.dll") DGSource("C:\DVD\Technotrend-Test-Card-720x576p-PAL.dgi", deinterlace=0) Dither_convert_8_to_16() SmoothGrad() #Dither_resize16(720, 576, kernel="Spline64", csp="YV24") Dither_quantize(bitdepth=10, reducerange=true, mode=6) #Dither_quantize(bitdepth=12, reducerange=true, mode=6) Dither_out()