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Old 24th April 2020, 00:03   #72  |  Link
benwaggoner
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Originally Posted by Sagittaire View Post
For this challenge at really low bitrate, use source with dithering is not really good idea, because local complexity frequency is really high. Never, I will make direct encoding without preprocess with this source like this.
Banding is pretty hard to encode as well. Depending on the content and codec, dithering can allow for better quality at lower bitrates than not dithering.

I could probably knock out a non-dithered version if you'd like to try one.
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