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by discreditable 3324 days ago
This encoder seems to have some weird distortions that are most visible in the aerial shots. Compare [1] and [2]. The lines on the basketball court are distorted and curved. If you look closely, there is also curvature added to the sidewalks where there isn't any. In case those links break, I'm referring to the top row of aerial images.

[1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57c8be4459cc68c3e3d7b...

[2] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57c8be4459cc68c3e3d7b...

1 comments

Yep - and see how it almost disappeared the white car in the shadow in the left middle part. "We've deleted your only alibi so that our data would compress better ..."
Lossy codec being lossy is a feature, not a drawback.