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[Source-Encode Comparison](https://slow.pics/c/sspju9tg) | [MediaInfo](https://pastebin.com/tCPqWh1k)
Video: heavily zoned encode (outside of episode 1), crop, chroma denoise, spliced the NCs instead of the Italian ver. because the JPED on the disks were of the old master (Source: Dynit ITBD, New 4K Remaster)
Subs: Live-Evil, new logo added (thanks to arvon2!). Otherwise left untouched, meaning you get to observe the hilarious [tint](https://ptpimg.me/ecf8s2.png) of the old master in action when there is typesetting. Will be fixed for v2.
**Why v1?**
This is the same remaster as will be on the other already announced BD releases, but there is also a 4K BD coming. Depending on the quality of the sources I may mix/merge some of them and make a new YUV444 encode. The official subtitles also have a non-zero chance of being better than the Live-Evil subs. And in any case, the L-E subs really need some adjustments in timing and typesetting—they definitely do show their age. So, one way or the other, this will get revised at some point next year, at the very least to restyle and retime the subtitles.
This also means I'll need help. Specifically a timer and a typesetter (really only a handful of signs like the eyecatch and episode titles), and preferrably a song stylist as well. DM me on Discord @Moelancholy#6036 if interested. Oh yeah, and use mpv.
@Interruptor I really don't see why I should add a subtitle track for a language I can't QC, and why specifically one would need italian subs and no other languages. A thing I do plan to do is concatenate the entire show, force keyframes on episode changes, and then run a 2-pass 720p encode aiming at 1GB size per average for those in need of a smaller size alternative. I don't plan to include any subs or dubs that aren't english (and likely not the english dub either).
@StazCherryBlood No shot. The sound quality for this doesn't even warrant 192kbps Opus. And it's so easy to compress that despite settings --vbr --192, it churned out sub-160kbps audio tracks. Anyone wasting bitrate on FLAC for this is a bloody moron. If the idea is archival, doing so with an encoded version is bad practice and I recommend getting a remux instead. On that note, I've had people doing remuxes try to compare 192 vs 512kbps Opus encodes recently and all of them only got 2/8 right. I'm of the firm belief that anyone asking for FLAC for *anime* has never run a proper ABX on an anime audio track in their life (which, for this instance, I have).
Yeah, anime is literally just basic speaking (with the exception being OP/EDs.) Lossless audio won't make a difference to 99.9% of ~~germs~~ people. However, It's pretty dumb to upload a 70 GiB torrent, and not spend an extra ~3 GiB on 16 bit FLAC. Even more so when you went out of your way to encode from the best source.
@Simplistic 192kbps Opus is more transparent than the video encode which already features detail loss. With grainy sources like these, bigger filesizes aren't avoidable, but I don't believe in encoding bloat (note that the episodes are 29 minutes long!). There is no reason not to save space where possible and your way of approaching this is at best throwing the baby out with the bathwater. In fact the entire reason I spent the time to manually zone scenes that need it *was* to save about another 5GB from what I would initially have gone with. If there is no reason to include FLAC there is no reason to include FLAC. Simple as that.
Using the best source is standard M.O. and not something even worth noting.
Edit for clarity: Whether or not to go for a higher filesize for video or audio depends on the source you are dealing with. You won't catch me encoding easy-to-compress SoL at 2GB an episode. For anime that feature a lot of problematic samples like e.g. harpsichords I won't hesitate to use FLAC if I find it to produce noticeably better results than lossy audio during ABX. Things should be evaluated based on how the actual results are, not by conclusions drawn a priori.
Fair enough, I understand the min-maxing you're going for quite well 😂.
>However, It’s pretty dumb to upload a 70 GiB torrent, and not spend an extra ~3 GiB on 16 bit FLAC.
Also, my word choice there sounds harsher than intended.
@Tsukudakobashi You do understand that FLAC is a VBR format, and that it will encode less demanding audio sources at a lower bitrate, right? The idea that a particular audio source "isn't worthy of FLAC" is nonsensical, as FLAC encoding will be compressed as much as the source allows.
@user0079 It is not about the filesize of FLAC but whether the lossy options produce good results which yes depends on the samples. I'm well aware that FLAC is VBR, but it has literally no bearing on what I said. You are approaching it from the entirely wrong angle. I don't care about the size of the FLAC track relative to the size of the average FLAC track, I care about whether the lossy option won't produce noticeable artefacting—which outside of killer samples, such as one alluded to in my comment, won't be the case, and thus is not the case here.
You read something entirely different into my comment than what was even said, so I'm not sure why you are so confident that you are so vitriolic.
@ivescage This was never not seeded, it's literally on my seedbox 24/7.
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