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Old 3rd January 2015, 10:31   #171  |  Link
mini-moose
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Originally Posted by Sharc View Post
I understand that it refers to aq mode 3 i.e. "auto-variance AQ with bias to dark scenes" which has so far been experimental only.
Yes, that's it. I guess it might be recommended for darker movies or at least for people who split a movie encode into lots of smaller segments with each having it's own settings. I didn't try it yet either.

x264 help doesn't give a lot more info:

--aq-mode <integer> AQ method [1]
- 0: Disabled
- 1: Variance AQ (complexity mask)
- 2: Auto-variance AQ
- 3: Auto-variance AQ with bias to dark scenes

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