> > * It actually amazes me how badly video is encoded even on some games in the PS3
> > generation, even one or two PS4 games I've seen have absolutely horrible video
> > encoding where you can see artefacts.
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> It's a thing even up to the PS4 generation. Know why? Bink Video.
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> I have modern PC games with videos rendered at low quality 720p -or less-, upscaled
> to 1080p. Bink Video isn't a bad tool, but a lot of devs don't bother fine tuning the
> quality and leave things at the default, which adds a lot of artifacting.
Exactly. Its somehow like the old HLSL presets for MAME  . Moviecompanies have a own job for this task, to ensure maximum quality and ugly artefacts shouldnt be a issue nowadays. To be fair, the MPEG1 codec is some lousy codec compared to todays popular codecs like h264/h265, but still superior to Cinepak, which sadly was often used for Atari Jaguar CD, Sega CD, Sega Saturn, and 3DO. If you take the possibilities from the past into account, there is not much room to blame the companies for ugly artefacts, because there wasnt much choices.
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. Moviecompanies have a own job for this task, to ensure maximum quality and ugly artefacts shouldnt be a issue nowadays. To be fair, the MPEG1 codec is some lousy codec compared to todays popular codecs like h264/h265, but still superior to Cinepak, which sadly was often used for Atari Jaguar CD, Sega CD, Sega Saturn, and 3DO. If you take the possibilities from the past into account, there is not much room to blame the companies for ugly artefacts, because there wasnt much choices.
