[TODO] Dragon Ball (1986) - Episode 26

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2020-09-08 06:15 UTC
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Video: [R2J Dragon Box](https://nyaa.si/view/1133179) (w/ corrected B part) Audio: [Sync'd Broadcast Audio](https://nyaa.si/view/1240974) (re-encoded with AAC for space) Subtitles: Machine-timed & re-styled DVD subs (unclear who OCR'd the copy I started with) Chapters: [Courtesy of Utsukushii-Raws](https://nyaa.si/view/489801) Now that the Dragon Ball broadcast audio has been shared and sync'd I've been slowly watching the series. And I've been slowly working on making a release that I find easier to watch. Mostly by machine-timing the subtitles to have fewer egregious bleeds across scene changes, as well as correcting obvious OCR errors or typos as I watch. I'll share the release in its entirety eventually, once I've finished watching all the episodes. But I wanted to share this episode before I finish because it has unique issues that make it less watchable than most of the other episodes. Overall, the Utsukushii-Raws release of Dragon Ball does a great job of capturing what's on the JP DVDs. Unfortunately episodes 26 and 41 have errors on the DVD, and those are preserved in the raws. The B part of both episodes is telecined and some of the fields have blended chroma. Thanks to limited animation, many frames can be almost perfectly restored by simply borrowing from an adjacent duplicate (e.g. lip flaps), but action frames cannot be recovered so easily. For frames which simply pan without foreground motion interpolating the chroma works quite well. For frames with both background and foreground movement, or quick action, the interpolation doesn't work as well, and I instead opted to color match the chroma from the [Funimation DVDs](https://nyaa.si/view/1139811) for these frames (as the R1 DVDs do not have these chroma errors present). Unfortunately the R1 DVDs have less visible frame than the R2J counterparts, so there remain some, filtered, chroma errors at the edges (and on dark surfaces where the R1 DVD was crushed), but they are _much_ less intrusive and distracting, especially when watching in real time. And of course colors may not match perfectly, and chroma alignment certainly isn't perfect, but I'm not an artist and I didn't want to paint the individual frames, so this is the best I can realistically do. I don't think still images do a perfect job of capturing the difference, but here is [a comparison to illustrate](http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/7YKZWNNX) generally what all of this means for impacted frames.

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  • [TODO] Dragon Ball - 026 [1336516633].mkv (466.2 MiB)
selecta Vision fixed such things already in their upscaled blu-ray .

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That's good to know. Taking a look at comparisons with the upscaled BD I don't really prefer the overall look, but it does seem to have more of the frame in the shot than the funimation DVDs. I'll grab the BDs and may release another version where frames with color matched chroma are based on the BD chroma instead (depending on how much it improves).
@ dragonballlover If it was just an upscale that'd be fine, but they DNR'd. SD-BDs and BD upscales are decent if done right.
I would wait. iKaos has his release coming out within the week for Dragon Ball
A Week you say. Nice.
Yep with all of JySzE's filtering done as well similar to Kaos' DBZ Season 9 release. It's honestly amazing.
I've been following on the discord. Excited, didn't know it was so soon. Can't wait
filtering ? Yuck ! I'd prefer Selecta Vision DNR’d upscale anytime of the day .
The filtering is only improving the DBOX. I'd rather recommend JySzE's filtered encodes over Selecta's shitty upscale.
His filters literally remove all the imperfections from the DVD and basically remaster it. Chroma noise? Gone. Interlaced frames? Gone. Almost anything that was wrong with the original DVD has been fixed with his filtering and encoding
@dragonballlover we all know how incompetent you truly are but at least try to hide it. He didn't even say what kind of filtering was done, Stop assuming and then idiotically throw out SV's nightmare release as a better alternative. I don't know why me or iKaos were even brought up here this isn't our release so sorry @TODO for the spam. Glad to see someone else saw the flaws of the DB DBox as well and is attempting to fix it, EP 26 and 41 both have this same issue and glad to see others joining in to try and make dragon ball better.
@dragonballlover nigga you just salty this doesnt have 82 different spanish dubs on here
fuck dragonballlover all my homies hate dragonballlover

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Haha I don't mind the spam, really wasn't expecting much reaction to this at all. I guess there's a more active dragon ball community than I expected. If anyone has an invite to the aforementioned discord I'd be interested in joining. Really interested to see how you approached fixing these episodes @JySzE At any rate, I'm looking forward to other releases, I think having different fansub options for everyone's preferences is awesome.
@TODO Honestly you did a decent job trying to filter out imperfections here. Like I said tho I suggest waiting a bit as SoM's DB release is closing in very soon and i wouldn't want you to waste your time on stuff SoM is already fixing
@TODO as Venny said it should be coming out within the week. If you want an invite to the server message me at iKaos#9059. We deactivated the public invites due to trolls.