Wow... the settings
**** uses are so.... low quality...
Check it:
cabac =0, ref=1, deblock=1;1;1, analyze =0x3:0x113, me=hex, subme=5, brdo=0, etc etc...
to sum up, they seem to not be using CABAC, or more than 1 ref frame, no mixed refs or anything. they use 3 b-frames and b-pyramid though...
bitrate is set to 1270.
This is pretty shocking, really. Those are really low level, "let's encode as quick as you can" type settings. Sure, at that bitrate ANYTHING'll look good with h264, but you could do a lot better, I think.
Lythyka, what say you to this?