Q: Why are these raws good?
A: Better overall picture quality than any existing release, especially anything based on the Blu-Rays. Comparisons
Q: Why are these raws bad?
A: A few decimation problems here and there (fixed in v3!), NC versions of OPs/EDs spliced in to make encoding easier, faint residual combing not handled (fixed in v2!), ugly MPEG2 noise and heavy static grain everywhere because I refuse to nuke it, certain point-resized-looking flashback scenes not handled (fixed in v2!), codec (HEVC 4:4:4 10-bit) that may be difficult for some people to play, huge filesizes.
Q: Actually, yeah, why is the filesize so big??
A: Very noisy source, and the chroma planes are as big as those in a normal 1080p release.
These encodes won’t play correctly in VLC on Windows—they’ll appear too dark. You may want to include a disclaimer to that effect if you make a release using these raws.
Episodes 168-171 are a bit glitchy. That’s how they were on the original DVD.
(Sorry for the multiple versions, but encoding DVDs is hard. I’m now putting more time into QCing the encodes after they’re finished, so we should be fine going forward.)
Comments - 17
WitchyMary
thanks bob!
wave
Bleach is saved. Anime is saved.
herkz
Encoding isn’t an important part of the fansubbing process anyway.
korbaNTR
jcraw
Will you encode all episode up to 366 or just the filler?
motbob (uploader)
All.
Oosik
Hey guys Ron Perlman here. I just took a big stinky caca in my water heater and then the Bleach USBDs came out. You like that little nyaa? Heh-heh I bet you do. Whatcha gonna do it about it you blue avatar mother fucker?
See you hopefully on the next actual batch.
DmonHiro
Question: why did you start at 168?
motbob (uploader)
There were good encodes for 001-167. (Allegedly. I haven’t watched them.)
nabiru3
yeah, SOFCJ-RAWS for the first 160 episodes are incredibly good!
DmonHiro
Too bad SOFCJ-RAWS have no seeds :(
ChaoXide
https://nyaa.si/view/1462547
Sts115
Too big filesizes, wouldn’t be better a DVDREMUX?
motbob (uploader)
Look at the comparisons in the description and decide for yourself.
DmonHiro
ChaoXide , thank you. Those were great. I wonder how these will compare to the JPBD, once it gets to this point.
motbob (uploader)
SOFCJ-Raws are better than the new BDs. We will see about 168 onwards.
HeroAnki
Can I have some seed please?