July 8th update: started encoding a few days ago, the first 50 episodes are now encoded. Due to an issue I had with Opus causing a stutter with one of my testing devices when using HW decoding I have switched to qAAC q100 which results in about 192-200Kb/s. July 11th: 90 episodes done. July 12th: 98 episodes done. reworking filter script and encoding settings for the digital transition at 99. July 13th: 116 episodes done. July 14th: 133 episodes done. July 15th: 153 episodes done. July 16th: All episodes done encoding, some things must be fixed before release. Avg size for 001-098 771MB. Avg size for 099-167 462MB. final total size for 001-167 is about 107GB. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Old I took a break from this project for a while and rethought some things so progress has been slow. Although now I think I've found a filter set and encode settings that provide pretty good subjective quality compared to the BDs at a reasonable size. I've decided to just not touch the resolution, at least for the cell based stuff. v0.9 because I'm still looking for feedback, but I don't think I'll be changing much for a final release. If there are no major problems, I will probably begin batch encoding all the episodes within a week or two, though at about 1.5 hours to encode each episode with current script and encoding settings, it will take some time. Please leave feedback if you have suggestions. Also, I am looking for a good method of batch retiming subs as well as mux them+the font in with the video, perhaps with help from eXmendiC/I am Scum's subfix pack, if this is possible telling me how would be awesome as I kinda dread the monotony of needed to mux together the subs, font, and video+audio 167 times. Opus vbr148 - is this too much for Opus stereo, should I just use qAAC at a similar bitrate, perhaps just q127? x265 crf18.6 Frame comparisons: E001: https://slow.pics/c/eNOUgRO9 v0.9 - BD - v0 - v0.5 E002: https://slow.pics/c/Mv079vZs v0.9 - BD E003: https://slow.pics/c/vPqyqcCG v0.9 - BD E004: https://slow.pics/c/dADiPlTz v0.9 - BD E005: https://slow.pics/c/WWCTLBbM v0.9 - BD E006: https://slow.pics/c/RrL3LT6E v0.9 - BD Media Info from E001: General Unique ID : 25977228892701870953043640170191289617 (0x138B0844CA7757AA51C09502DE347D11) Complete name : F:\Encode\Encoded\[SAD] Inuyasha 001-006 [BD][1080p][HEVC10][OPUS2.0]v0.9\[SAD] Inuyasha 001 [BD][1080p][HEVC10][OPUS2.0]v0.9.mkv Format : Matroska Format version : Version 4 File size : 766 MiB Duration : 24 min 7 s Overall bit rate : 4 439 kb/s Encoded date : UTC 2020-06-11 02:21:30 Writing application : mkvmerge v44.0.0 ('Domino') 64-bit Writing library : libebml v1.3.10 + libmatroska v1.5.2 Attachments : baar sophia.ttf Video ID : 1 Format : HEVC Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding Format profile : Main 10@L4@Main Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC Duration : 24 min 6 s Bit rate : 4 294 kb/s Width : 1 440 pixels Height : 1 080 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4:3 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 10 bits Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.115 Stream size : 741 MiB (97%) Writing library : x265 3.3+2-gbe2d82093:[Windows][GCC 9.2.0][64 bit] 10bit Encoding settings : cpuid=1111039 / frame-threads=3 / numa-pools=12 / wpp / no-pmode / no-pme / no-psnr / no-ssim / log-level=2 / input-csp=1 / input-res=1440x1080 / interlace=0 / total-frames=34690 / level-idc=0 / high-tier=1 / uhd-bd=0 / ref=4 / no-allow-non-conformance / no-repeat-headers / annexb / no-aud / no-hrd / info / hash=0 / no-temporal-layers / open-gop / min-keyint=23 / keyint=240 / gop-lookahead=0 / bframes=8 / b-adapt=2 / b-pyramid / bframe-bias=0 / rc-lookahead=48 / lookahead-slices=6 / scenecut=40 / hist-scenecut=0 / radl=0 / no-splice / no-intra-refresh / ctu=64 / min-cu-size=8 / no-rect / no-amp / max-tu-size=32 / tu-inter-depth=1 / tu-intra-depth=1 / limit-tu=0 / rdoq-level=2 / dynamic-rd=0.00 / no-ssim-rd / signhide / no-tskip / nr-intra=0 / nr-inter=0 / no-constrained-intra / strong-intra-smoothing / max-merge=3 / limit-refs=1 / no-limit-modes / me=2 / subme=2 / merange=48 / temporal-mvp / no-frame-dup / hme / Level / merange / L0,L1,L2=16,32,48 / weightp / weightb / no-analyze-src-pics / deblock=-1:-1 / no-sao / no-sao-non-deblock / rd=4 / selective-sao=0 / early-skip / rskip / no-fast-intra / no-tskip-fast / no-cu-lossless / b-intra / no-splitrd-skip / rdpenalty=0 / psy-rd=2.58 / psy-rdoq=4.38 / no-rd-refine / no-lossless / cbqpoffs=-1 / crqpoffs=-1 / rc=crf / crf=18.6 / qcomp=0.70 / qpstep=4 / stats-write=0 / stats-read=0 / ipratio=1.40 / pbratio=1.30 / aq-mode=4 / aq-strength=0.82 / cutree / zone-count=0 / no-strict-cbr / qg-size=32 / no-rc-grain / qpmax=69 / qpmin=0 / no-const-vbv / sar=0 / overscan=0 / videoformat=5 / range=0 / colorprim=1 / transfer=1 / colormatrix=1 / chromaloc=0 / display-window=0 / cll=0,0 / min-luma=0 / max-luma=1023 / log2-max-poc-lsb=8 / vui-timing-info / vui-hrd-info / slices=1 / no-opt-qp-pps / no-opt-ref-list-length-pps / no-multi-pass-opt-rps / scenecut-bias=0.05 / hist-threshold=0.01 / no-opt-cu-delta-qp / no-aq-motion / no-hdr10 / no-hdr10-opt / no-dhdr10-opt / no-idr-recovery-sei / analysis-reuse-level=0 / analysis-save-reuse-level=0 / analysis-load-reuse-level=0 / scale-factor=0 / refine-intra=0 / refine-inter=0 / refine-mv=1 / refine-ctu-distortion=0 / no-limit-sao / ctu-info=0 / no-lowpass-dct / refine-analysis-type=0 / copy-pic=1 / max-ausize-factor=1.0 / no-dynamic-refine / no-single-sei / no-hevc-aq / no-svt / no-field / qp-adaptation-range=1.75 / no-scenecut-aware-qpconformance-window-offsets / right=0 / bottom=0 Default : Yes Forced : No Color range : Limited Color primaries : BT.709 Transfer characteristics : BT.709 Matrix coefficients : BT.709 Audio ID : 2 Format : Opus Codec ID : A_OPUS Duration : 24 min 7 s Bit rate : 143 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 50.001 FPS (960 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Delay relative to video : 4 ms Stream size : 24.6 MiB (3%) Writing library : Lavc58.71.100 libopus Language : Japanese Default : No Forced : No Text ID : 3 Format : ASS Codec ID : S_TEXT/ASS Codec ID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha Duration : 22 min 31 s Bit rate : 104 b/s Count of elements : 303 Compression mode : Lossless Stream size : 17.3 KiB (0%) Language : English Default : Yes Forced : No Old v0 https://nyaa.si/view/1246248 Old v0.5 https://nyaa.si/view/1247160 Filter script(created with StaxRip): clip = core.lsmas.LWLibavSource(r"%source_file%") clip = core.std.Crop(clip, 240, 240, 0, 0) clip = core.fmtc.bitdepth (clip, bits=16) pre = core.knlm.KNLMeansCL(clip, d = 2, a = 2, h = 0.75, channels = 'Y', device_type="gpu") clip = core.knlm.KNLMeansCL(clip, d = 1, a = 1, h = 0.55, channels = 'UV', device_type="gpu") clip = havsfunc.SMDegrain(clip, tr=3, thSAD=270, contrasharp=True, RefineMotion=True, prefilter=pre, chroma=False, pel=1, plane=0) clip = taa.TAAmbk(clip, showmask=0, preaa=-1, aatype='Nnedi3', opencl=False, mtype=3, mthr=42, dark=0, sharp=0, aarepair=0, postaa=False, stabilize=1) clip = core.f3kdb.Deband(clip, 12, grainc=20, grainy=68, y=72, cb=56, cr=56, dither_algo=2) clip = core.fmtc.bitdepth (clip, bits=10) clip.set_output()