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Old 22nd April 2020, 08:28   #15  |  Link
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If you really do want to scrape the bottom of the bit budget, x265 will always be better than x264, and likewise AV1 will always be better than x265 -- when compute time is no obstacle. But if your electricity is metered, it would probably be a lot cheaper to buy an extra terabyte or two and not go that route. At the fairly reasonable 1 megabit for SD video, the only reason to go with x265 would be if you edited and cleaned it to the point that banding will matter and built-in 10-bit will be meaningful. But if you're trying to keep closer to what a raw VHS capture actually looks like, even with some basic filtering, 8-bit x264 will still do plenty of justice at an extremely fast speed.
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