Thread: film grain on Shameless DVDs
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Old 8th September 2011, 10:58 AM
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Mpeg-2 doesn't handle film grain at all well. It never has and never will so a certain element of noise reduction is necessary to get a reasonable encode in SD, especially at the low bit rates that have to be used.