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Old 21st January 2019, 20:49   #30  |  Link
Stereodude
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Originally Posted by Asmodian View Post
What I understand from this is that restricting the number of threads in a pool is pointless when running one encode but setting --frame-threads 1 can improve compression efficiency. I believe "no effect on the output bitstream" means all the frames are the same types and it can be decoded the same way, not that there is no loss of compression efficiency.
I took "no effect on the output bitstream" to mean no loss in visual quality because the encode is still deterministic (unless you use things that inherently break determinism).
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