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Comment by AlotOfReading

You can see some ringing in the sky around the trees and on the line between the crow's beak/feathers if you look closely. (Alvin's?) fur goes much farther down his forehead as well. People who work deeply with codecs are usually hypersensitive to these sorts of issues that mere mortals like us need to try to see.

There used to be a legendary blog called "Diaries of an x264 developer" by Fiona Glaser [0] where she'd go on long rants about various ways to cheat in encoder comparisons [1], much like this.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/2012/http://x264dev.multimedia.c...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130215095527/http://x264dev.mu...

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