## Hand Maid May ## ### AV1 by ScarletNeko ### --- #### **This is not the same situation as Tsugumomo 540p. More info below.** #### --- **2024-07-19 Update: Hey there, slow on the releases but still alive and seeding. I'm preparing something big, though I'm insanely low on time, so things are going at a snail's pace. Don't skip on me though, something cool is set to come up (hopefully) soon!** ### **Quick Info** ### | --- | Source | This Encode | | --- | :---: | :---: | | Video Codec | AVC | AV1 | | Video Format | YUV420P8 | YUV444P10LE | | Framesize | 1920x1080* | 720x540 | | Audio Codec | LPCM, AC3 | FLAC, AC3 | | Images Codec | --- | JPEG-XL | | Images Profile | --- | Lossless | * Letterboxed, useful resolution was about 1440x1080, minus a few more pixels to the sides. --- ### Encoders Used ### Video: `aomenc-av1-lavish 3.6.0` with some additional modifications Audio: `FLAC git-37ca8113 20240306` Images: `libvips 8.15.2 jxlsave` --- ### Links ### Source: [Discotek USBD](https://nyaa.iss.one/view/1785784 "Mr. Kimiko") MediaInfo: [Episode 01](https://pastebin.com/hkQVRvVV) AniDB: [Hand Maid May](https://anidb.net/anime/60 "ハンドメイド・メイ") --- ### Some Words ### Been feeling lazy again, this has been sitting here for a while because I did the episodes and stopped at the extras, even though there's not really a lot of them. I actually started this project while procrastinating with another one, which I started earlier! That one is all encoded and the extras are done, but I still need to handle the subs for the episodes, gotta sync and cut some vobsubs. That one should hopefully be finished soon as well, and I used a different encoder for it to test said encoder. Now, why is it 540p instead of 1080p? The BD does indeed has 1080p video, but, not only it is hard letterboxed (1440x1080 with black bars to make it 1920x1080, and on top of that it had some dark edges on the sides as usual of DVD content), it is a very crude upscale. I had better results scaling it to half res than to 480p, so I did it. It is weird, because on the BD it has a good and constant framerate, and it has waaay less mpeg2 artifacts, but it doesn't look particularly better on other aspects or sharper than the DVD, and the colorimetry is a bit oversaturated as well... So while it is better than the DVD version in some aspects, it is worse in others. The audio was also better in the BD version. Either way, this is the BD version, with the cropped letterboxing and downscaled to half res. Again it really was not worth keeping the original 1080p, it was extremely blurry, but in case people still want it anyway, I'll keep the source for a few days longer so ask for it in the comments. --- As usual, my releases are meant to be watched using [mpv](https://mpv.io/). It probably works on other players but that is beyond me. You can view the JXL files with [mpv](https://mpv.io/), by simply dragging and dropping it there or calling it via command line and passing the image path, or if you prefer a proper image viewing solution, on Windows I recommend [IrfanView](https://www.irfanview.com/), [ImageGlass](https://imageglass.org/) or [jpegview](https://github.com/sylikc/jpegview) --- # Still looking for the following things! Preferably ISOs but any Raw, Remux, Bloated or Good Encode work. **Very High Priority!** The older the medium it was sourced from or the less censored it is, the better! # - Urotsukidoji (超神伝説うろつき童子) - Midori - Shoujo Tsubaki