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Originally Posted by asarian
Well, it looks okay when seen on my PC with, say, GOM Player.  On my Sony 40" Bravia TV, however, the banding (to the left of Rachel's face) becomes painfully obvious. As in being unwatchable. |
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.