@littlepox: Would you say it is safe and a quality benefit/visual benefit to use your custom parameters you cooked us since 1.9+1 with the newest --no-recursion-skip feature/tweak they added in 1.9+167?
Something along the lines of:
--preset veryslow --ctu 32 --max-tu-size 16 --crf 18 --no-recursion-skip --tu-intra-depth 2 --tu-inter-depth 2 --rdpenalty 2 --me 3 --subme 5 --merange 44 --b-intra --no-rect --no-amp --ref 5 --weightb --keyint 360 --min-keyint 1 --bframes 8 --aq-mode 1 --aq-strength 1.0 --rd 5 --psy-rd 1.6 --psy-rdoq 8.0 --rdoq-level 1 --no-sao --no-open-gop --rc-lookahead 80 --max-merge 4 --qcomp 0.80 --no-strong-intra-smoothing --deblock -2:-2 --qg-size 16 --pbratio 1.2
Edit: Typo, I meant 1.9+167 not 1.9+197.
