cartman0208
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I could do that with a whole movie .. and depending on the content, VBR would still look better. Unfortunately I can't post the result here, that would be against forum rules... Even if the CBR and VBR streams were both identical bitrates the CBR one would be better in aggregate over the course of the movie because the actual encoding settings are better. So yes, while VBR might have occasional massive bitrate spikes that make those brief seconds better quality, it's also has bitrate drops, and the encode settings are worse, so overall CBR is better for 99% of the movie....
What better encoding settings do you mean? I pointed out, that the settings were exactly the same.
And despite repeating myself: of course you can pump up the encoding complexity to increase CBR Quality, but is it worth the time and CPU power?
I don't think Amazon "gimps" the videos just to annoy customers ... even a huge provider has to watch the bandwith, when millions of people are watching. IMO that's the reason not everyone is getting the high bitrate stream.
Additionally that ones are probably better protected than the lower streams, preventing AnyStream to download. (just guessing here)