• Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    They are correct in that encoding is a super geeky topic even by the standards of technology discussions.

    It is fascinating to see how encoding has changed across generation. Take a relatively high bitrate source file and encode it with XviD, x265, x265 and whatever is the top AV1 codec at the same bitrate x resolution.

    Not surprisingly, the biggest jump in quality will be from XviD to x264, but x265 does offer notable improvements.