[TomV]

Originally Posted by filler56789

IMHO x264, x265, and Xvid as well, should have gone the way of DivX and WMV3/WVC1, regarding ~scene detection~. In both DivX and WMV, the fades generate a sequence of I-frames, and this is a non-problem when the playback device of the user doesn't care about "excessive" bitrates. Sadly it seems the FOSS developers think «the less options for the end-user, the better» :-/

That is an extremely inefficient strategy for encoding dissolve transitions.