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The quality slider behavior doesn't seem to match the documentation on Silicon Mac using VideoToolbox

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GCustom commented

Using Constant Quality, lower numbers give worse quality, higher numbers give higher quality, the recommended ranges don't look great, and even with much higher numbers it's tough to get smoke or fog not to look blocky. Using M1 Max and the latest public releases of MacOS and Handbrake for Mac. I've found 50 to be my best compromise for 1080p and 4K and out of laziness I keep it there for DVD releases too but they could use further tweaking.

bradleysepos commented

@galad87 Perhaps you could take a look at this when you have time?

galad87 commented

I don't think we have any recommendation for VideoToolbox, only for x264/x265, where are you seeing this in the docs?

GCustom commented
galad87 commented

That page talks only about x264 and x265. Each encoder has got a different range/direction, and VideoToolbox goes from 0 (lower quality) to 100 (max quality).

GCustom commented