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Old 23rd February 2008, 22:50   #34  |  Link
Dark Shikari
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Originally Posted by Ranguvar View Post
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Note that AQ is *designed* to decrease quality on sharp edges, such as text like that, so you can clearly see the difference there.

The idea is that generally such sharp edges and complex text takes such a large amount of bits that the bits are probably better used elsewhere.

As you can tell, AQ lowers quality slightly at the same QP, but of course can improve quality if you try to keep to the same bitrate.
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