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@@ -7005,6 +7005,7 @@ strategy to choose between I/P/B-frames:
Always use the maximum number of B-frames (default).
.IPs 1
Avoid B-frames in high motion scenes.
+See the b_sensitivity option to tune this strategy.
.IPs 2
Places B-frames more or less optimally to yield maximum quality (slower).
You may want to reduce the speed impact of this option by tuning the
@@ -7013,6 +7014,17 @@ option brd_scale.
.PD 1
.
.TP
+.B b_sensitivity=<any integer greater than 0>
+Adjusts how sensitively vb_strategy=1 detects motion and avoids using
+B-frames (default: 40).
+Lower sensitivities will result in more B-frames.
+Using more B-frames usually improves PSNR, but too many B-frames can
+hurt quality in high-motion scenes.
+Unless there is an extremely high amount of motion, b_sensitivity can
+safely be lowered below the default; 10 is a reasonable value in most
+cases.
+.
+.TP
.B brd_scale=<0\-10>
Downscales frames for dynamic B-frame decision (default: 0).
Each time brd_scale is increased by one, the frame dimensions are