Film grain synthesis with fallback mechanisms

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to selectively apply film grain synthesis when encoding and decoding media titles by performing the steps of:

• determining that a film grain synthesis operation should be applied to a first portion of video data;
• determining that the film grain synthesis operation should not be applied to a second portion of video data;
• and
• generating encoded video data based on the first portion of video data and the second portion of video data,
• wherein the film grain synthesis operation is applied to the first portion of video data when decoding the encoded video data and the film grain synthesis operation is not applied to the second portion of video data when decoding the encoded video data.

A system comprising:

• one or more memories storing instructions;
• and
• one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories that, when executing the instructions, perform the steps of:
• determining that a film grain synthesis operation should be applied to a first portion of video data,
• determining that the film grain synthesis operation should not be applied to a second portion of video data, and
• generating encoded video data based on the first portion of video data and the second portion of video data,
• wherein the film grain synthesis operation is applied to the first portion of video data when decoding the encoded video data and the film grain synthesis operation is not applied to the second portion of video data when decoding the encoded video data.