germanium

Thanks, time to continue watching from ep064! German BD is interesting choice though.

Short version, the Japanese BDs are absurdly expensive.

Fair enough :)

could you upload the german dub & sub as well?

Degrained and bitrate starved. Opening is frame blended https://slow.pics/c/gqAydCGM https://slow.pics/c/8aY5UfQd Why is every encode of this show so terrible?

> Opening is frame blended Gotta love the krauts for publishing a modern show in 1080i

Opening is only frame-blended on a few random episodes, no idea why. On most of them it's not. And it's not 1080i, it's progressive... mostly. Except those random one-off openings. But yes, I had to degrain it slightly (smdegrain with thSAD=200), otherwise the encodes would end up 3GB+. Even as-is they're still enormous.

> MPEG-4 AVC Video 16995 kbps 1080i / 25 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1 The German BD is most certainly interlaced

It's not interlaced. It's flagged 1080i because it's 25fps (with duplicate frames), but there's no actual interlacing outside of a few openings and title cards. If you play the actual m2ts files you'll see there's no interlacing. > could you upload the german dub & sub as well? Here: https://nyaa.iss.one/view/1816288

I mean, it's just deleting the intended look of the show, and in general, this is encoded really badly. Just seems like a waste of time all around, sorry.

Not everybody's willing to literally throw 3.5GB at each episode for the sake of artificial grain. Anyway, added a note to the description saying this was degrained, it's the best I can do. I honestly only thought the grain was there to avoid banding, tbh.

It may be artificial grain, but it's intended. People with no storage will cope with mini encodes, but people who want quality encodes are willing to spend several GBs an ep.

I mean, even putting aside the grain, it's still encoded badly. It falls apart visibly in motion with nasty blocking. Given the source (?) is also weirdly blown out and has blended spots, I just don't see how this is much of an upgrade of the streaming version.

Yeah, any brightness issues are directly from the source, only filters I ran were tdecimate, smdegrain and gradfun. TBH the blocking is probably from the source too, each m2ts file is 3.5GB, and crf16 doesn't usually lead to bad blocking.