The Long(est) Night
summary
Describes diagnosing and fixing severe encoding artifacts on a high-quality streaming service for a very dark Game of Thrones episode (The Long Night). Explains manual, custom encoding adjustments inspired by techniques from audio processing and 3D game rendering to mitigate banding and silhouette corruption.
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