The "broken animations in HDR" was an encode-throughput cliff, not the ACCESS_LOST churn. Measured at
5120x1440@240 HEVC Main10 on the RTX 4090: forced 2-way split-encode = 7.6 ms/frame (~131 fps, well
over the 4.17 ms/240fps budget → choppy), while SINGLE engine = 2.8-3.9 ms/frame (~256-357 fps, fits
240). The split/merge overhead dominates for 10-bit; a single Ada NVENC engine already handles 5K@240
Main10 comfortably. So the split decision now forces DISABLE for Main10 (bit_depth >= 10), keeping the
existing forced-2 only for 8-bit above 1 Gpix/s. PUNKTFUNK_SPLIT_ENCODE still overrides. Added a
split-mode log line.
Validated live on the 4090: encode_us_p50 7.6 ms → 3.9 ms at 5K240 HDR with no env override.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
