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Old 23rd October 2019, 22:19   #59  |  Link
benwaggoner
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Originally Posted by Boulder View Post
In layman's terms, does that mean that SAO has actually become usable to us who call it "Smooth All Objects"? B-frames in x265 encodes often seem to be much smoother than in x264 ones, even without SAO enabled.
I don't know that this changes that. But the SAO detail loss issues have become way less in more recent versions of x265.

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EDIT: I think you mean --selective-sao 2? Option 3 enables SAO for all reference frames.
Oh, yes. Thanks for the correction!
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