Can someone clear up why '--tune psnr' disables '--hevc-aq' ?

Issue #575 new
Georg Pelz created an issue

For detail how I come to this conclusion please read:
https://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1925877
https://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1925878

Cu Selur

Comments (2)

  1. Ben Waggoner

    AQ-modes are pretty much exactly FOR changing encoding to improve subjective quality at the expense of PSNR. Disabling AQ in --tune psnr would be entirely reasonable.

    And I can’t think of any useful scenario for --tune psnr outside of PSNR benchmarking; it makes the video worse for any other purpose. Dark Shikari added that in x264 because she was annoyed at people claiming their (worse) H.264 encoders were better than x264 because of PSNR (a pretty lousy metric). So we got --tune psnr, as sort of middle finger saying “I can beat you at your stupid game too.”

    One of her many classic blog articles: Diary Of An x264 Developer » Stop doing this in your encoder comparisons (archive.org).

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