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Old 29th November 2013, 17:27   #211  |  Link
MasterNobody
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Originally Posted by xooyoozoo View Post
Tested a simple 16s clip cut from a documentary BluRay and x264 2377 and x265 @2ba6c26. Used placebo presets and matched x264's 2pass bitrate to x265's default CRF (28) with aq-mode 1. Bitstreams and side-by-side comparison.

I know that things are still incomplete, but at the very least, AQ seems to be doing its thing and there's no longer that fuzzy 'reference' look I remember from the HM.
I would recommend next time when you will do x264 compression at such low bitrates that it is already blocking to disable PsyRD (--psy-rd 0). Because imho PsyRD is only visually useful when you have enough bitrate for it and at low bitrates it can harm quality. I doubt it will change this comparison significantly but should make x264 less blocky.
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