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  • Apple's T2 chip makes a giant difference in video encoding for most users

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    insidewinder said:
    Speed is important, but what about quality? QuickSync is known to produce worse results than good software encoders, how does T2 stack up on quality? Does nobody care about quality anymore?
    That's what I'm after. I have a new 2018 Mac mini and the T2 is very fast compared to cpu encoding.... but tuning is limited thru these apps - I use ff-works/ffmpeg and handbrake. But... the result is not always better. I re-encoded an h264 the other day and the result was poor... the video jumped every few minutes. I tried encoding a rip of a Blu-ray that caused ff-works to crash and handbrake generates very large files.... so I basically try encoding with T2 first and if the result is good I use it. If not, I encode with the CPU. Perhaps this will improve over time so I can use the T2 exclusively.

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