Sources:

• https://nyaa.si/view/1262580 (Audio, Video and Subs)
• https://nyaa.si/view/1284642 (Subs)
• https://nyaa.si/view/903699 (Subs)
• https://nyaa.si/view/1319279 (Previous release, contains more extras - trailers, commentary, surround audio, logos and anti-piracy warnings - and uses higher bitrate)

This is a lot more taxing than my previous encode of Nichijou so I’d only recommend using this on hardware that supports AVX2 (Haswell/Zen1 & newer, Not Pentium / Celeron)

Unfortunately grain synthesis on Tigerlake is currently broken, so I’d recommend turning off hardware decoding.

Video

• Resolution: 1920x1080
• Codec: AV1
• Encoder: AOM
• Q = 30

Japanese Audio

• Bitrate: 96kbps VBR
• Codec: OPUS
• Channels: Stereo

English Audio

• Bitrate: 96kbps VBR
• Codec: OPUS
• Channels: Stereo

Subtitles

Underwater/Commie/DESS & Doki
Modified to add name of narrator for Dub next episode preview.

• Type: ASS

Official

• Type: PGS

NCED 04-16 combined in the same file as they have identical videos.

Despite the large reduction in bitrate this release uses more optimised settings so there is only a minor degradation in video quality (as tested by VMAF, about -2 in mean compared to previous release, all episodes maintain a mean > 95).

While yes this is somewhat of a V2 I do not feel like it is a definitive replacement for my other release due to the ommission of content and the issues with decoding, I don’t currently experience any framedrops but I’ve seen my 3600 spike up to 40% usage while playing.