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Originally Posted by Blue_MiSfit
It's "worth it" to go all the way to placebo if you're running a streaming business where your recurring CDN delivery costs are a huge expense, and being able to use a the slowest presets to reduce bitrate a few percent is worth the one-time compute costs to do this.
For home users, just use the slowest preset you can stand
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Thanks for the information! I want it to look good, I usually encode at Very Slow on x264. However, 4k/x265 on a 16 threaded processor takes WAY to much time lol.
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Originally Posted by Boulder
I'd expect the cost/benefit ratio to be quite low. Medium should already look quite nice, but you could try using slow but set --no-rect to gain some speed with hopefully a negligible quality tradeoff. Slow has some useful additions like a better motion search method and more rate distortion optimization going on.
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Thanks for the input