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Old 5th November 2017, 05:31   #12  |  Link
Asmodian
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Originally Posted by benwaggoner View Post
Why --pools "5"? Are you running on a NUMA system? I would think that explicitly setting --frame-threads would control quality and perf better.
I was limiting the number of threads while running four encodes at once. -F is a shortcut for --frame-threads so I was limiting each encode to one frame thread.

I only included the thread limits to be complete with my reporting because I hadn't tested too many variations of the command line.

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Originally Posted by Toku View Post
I actually didn't like --no-strong-intra-smoothing on my tests either.
Interesting, I wonder if that is animation style dependent or if it is simply your slightly higher crf value. I definitely thought strong-intra-smoothing created something like that slightly smoothed look that I used to associate with sao.
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