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Old 3rd July 2010, 21:43   #9  |  Link
asarian
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Originally Posted by mp3dom View Post
Most probably, the Bravia TV is more well calibrated than your PC monitor. To be precise, the banding is on the left (as you said) but even on the right of Rachel's face. It's less visible because it has some subtle grain but it's present. If you don't want to raise bitrate (or lower crf) you can:
- try to increase the AQ values (1.2~1.5)
- Apply gradfun2db prior to encoding as this add a bit of subtle dithering
- Add a bit of noise with Blockbuster. You can add noise only on uniform areas avoiding to add noise to the whole picture.
As usual, you came up with some very useful tips! :) Thank you very much!

Man, there's a lot to learn about this stuff. It's only recently that I actually started paying attention to per-job settings. Once you do that, you'll learn soon enough that there really is no 'one-for-all' setings profile.
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