Output dtype for 10bit videos: avoid lossy convertion to 8 bits #939
Description
Opening this issue to keep track of the feature request.
Currently, 10 bit videos are automatically converted to uint8 because this is the only dtype that the decoder can currently output. This 10 -> 8 bit conversion process is obviously lossy. Depending on the popularity of this feature, we may want to allow outputting a different dtype. uint16 is an option, although it currently has very minimal support in pytorch.