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Re:H.264 Is Magic (2016) by TimeBearingDown on Friday June 14, 2024 @02:58PM (#40683823)
It also benefits from the extremely optimized encoder x264, which has many easily approachable tunings and speed/compression presets.

I’m not sure I’d trust x265 to preserve film grain better than x264 —tune film unless I gave x265 much, much more time as well as pretty similar bitrate.

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Re:H.264 Is Magic (2016) by LeoPanthera on Friday June 14, 2024 @04:05PM (#40684545)
x265 has a specific "--tune grain" mode specifically for video with a lot of film grain.
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Re:H.264 Is Magic (2016) by TimeBearingDown on Sunday June 16, 2024 @03:21PM (#40699403)
Apologies, I did miss that. However it seems to still underperform.

See this thread, screenshots on the first page.

http://forum.doom9.net/showthread.php?p=1947856#post1947856

I was remembering from this a couple years ago, but focused on the parameters shown and missed that they were derived from --tune grain.

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