Thanks a lot! Looking forward to the rest

Ep 6,7 are all @QC. Release will be soon hopefully

Hey I have a small doubt. Between VCB-studio and Reinforce which among the two have better video quality? I need to encode Index season 3 and I am rather stuck between choosing the two. could you help me out here?

One thing I would say is re encoding an encode is bad. Reinforce is unfiltered where as VCB has some kind of filtering so VCB is better.

@gsk_ Thanks for replying. Sorry I meant to mux the the video. As for VCB they release in hvec and many people actually complain about hvec so I wanted to ask your opinion on that as well as the size difference. I know hvec is meant to be better than AVC in ratio of compression to quality but the difference in size of the files in the respective episodes in VCB and reinforce is rather more. So finally even though you gave an answer to this in previous reply should I go for VCB or Reinforce?(I wish beatrice should have done index 3 then I would have no doubt used their release)

I am not an encoder so I don't know the subtelty of encoding beyond basics. But in general VCB is better than Reinforce.

@gsk_ Thanks

Thank you so much for working this! Loved it As for what you were talking about, I got the same question. I've read in some forums that with hevc you get the same quality as avc with less bitrate, so less filesize. I guess it depends in what the encoder is more used, lack of compatibility with other devices or something like that?

@zMega AVC and HEVC work entirely differently. HEVC encoders tend to blur more to hide compression artifacting, whereas AVC encoders tend to block instead. imo HEVC only really beats out AVC at very low bitrates, or when you don't care about fine textures/background detail. Otherwise, AVC's blocking is often much more preferable for higher bitrate encodes since it at least preserves fine detail better.

@LightArrowsEXE Thanks for your answer! That was something I had on my mind since I use VCB for my muxes very often. What do you think in general of their work? I've seen you as an encoder in a lot of projects, and your work was great! Thanks for that too