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Another day, another stupid mistake…

V2:

Copied EP24 out of the wrong folder.
Now it actually includes the subtitles and the english audio.
Sorry and thank you @DmonHiro for telling me.

The rest of the files are the same.

Information:

There are so called ‘BluRays’ of this floating on the internet, like the QTS release.
But in fact all of them are 480i, so I frankly do not know how QTS got 720p video. :shrug:
That being said, I encoded from the newest SDBD, which had a little better line-art than the DVDs.
VFR video encoded as such; video filters include: QTGMC, cropping, degrain, debanding and adaptive_grain.

The lossless japanese audio has been encoded to opus, and the english audio highly edited to fix the sync issues.

Subtitles:
About EP1-9, I know there is a fansub from Shinsen-Subs, but just during the first 5 minutes it had mistakes like: “one” instead of “eleven”. (checked using the eng-dub)
So instead of OCRing, I took the subtitles for EP1 up to EP9 from Exiled-Destiny (srt).
The rest of the subtitles are from Nyanko and ACX.
All of the subtitles are heavily retimed, edited and restyled.

Anime is recommended by the way. The voice lines are too short for the animation, but it’s still very enjoyable.

Chapters are from the BDMV.
Stereo jpn audio encoded with 256kbit/s.
If you want the source files of these, just ask me on discord.

For requests or questions, join my (small) discord server here: https://discord.gg/8n7H3ArdCW

I highly suggest you to use mpv for playback.

Summary:

• retimed and styled subtitles
• losslessly edited english audio for sync
• encoded the lossless audio tracks from PCM to OPUS (opusenc)
• encoded and filtered video tracks to HEVC (x265, crf 15)
• naming scheme matches AniDB.net

Source:

[BDSDMV@U2] - video, jpn-audio, chapters
Nyanko - subtitles (ep10-fin)
Exiled-Destiny - eng-audio, subtitles (ep1-9)

FFprobe:

Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'Solty Rei (2005) - S01E01 - The City Where the Aurora Falls.mkv':
  Metadata:
    creation_time   : 2023-09-06T16:26:40.000000Z
    ENCODER         : Lavf60.3.100
  Duration: 00:23:30.02, start: -0.007000, bitrate: 1493 kb/s
  Chapters:
    Chapter #0:0: start 0.000000, end 59.059000
      Metadata:
        title           : Chapter 1
    Chapter #0:1: start 59.059000, end 150.016540
      Metadata:
        title           : Chapter 2
    Chapter #0:2: start 150.016540, end 835.034240
      Metadata:
        title           : Chapter 3
    Chapter #0:3: start 835.034240, end 1302.534500
      Metadata:
        title           : Chapter 4
    Chapter #0:4: start 1302.534500, end 1392.724600
      Metadata:
        title           : Chapter 5
    Chapter #0:5: start 1392.724600, end 1410.008700
      Metadata:
        title           : Chapter 6
  Stream #0:0(jpn): Video: hevc (Main 10), yuv420p10le(tv, bt709), 846x480, SAR 1:1 DAR 141:80, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn (default)
    Metadata:
      title           : [SDBD] Japanese
      BPS             : 791179
      DURATION        : 00:23:29.983000000
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 33826
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 139443620
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v79.0 ('Funeral Pyres') 64-bit
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC: 2023-09-06 16:26:40
      _STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
  Stream #0:1(jpn): Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp
    Metadata:
      title           : [SDBD] Japanese
      ENCODER         : opusenc from opus-tools 0.2
      ENCODER_OPTIONS : --bitrate 256k
      BPS             : 248988
      DURATION        : 00:23:30.017000000
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 70501
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 43884763
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v79.0 ('Funeral Pyres') 64-bit
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC: 2023-09-06 16:26:40
      _STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
  Stream #0:2(eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 448 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      title           : [Exiled-Destiny] English
      BPS             : 448000
      DURATION        : 00:23:27.904000000
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 43997
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 78842624
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v79.0 ('Funeral Pyres') 64-bit
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC: 2023-09-06 16:26:40
      _STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
  Stream #0:3(eng): Subtitle: ass
    Metadata:
      title           : [Exiled-Destiny] Dialogue (MiraiAnime-Edit)
      BPS             : 114
      DURATION        : 00:22:26.260000000
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 316
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 19280
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v79.0 ('Funeral Pyres') 64-bit
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC: 2023-09-06 16:26:40
      _STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
  Stream #0:4(eng): Subtitle: ass (default)
    Metadata:
      title           : [Exiled-Destiny] Sign&Songs (MiraiAnime-Edit)
      BPS             : 25
      DURATION        : 00:22:09.220000000
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 64
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 4319
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v79.0 ('Funeral Pyres') 64-bit
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC: 2023-09-06 16:26:40
      _STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
  Stream #0:5: Attachment: ttf
    Metadata:
      filename        : ChewedPenBB.otf
      mimetype        : application/x-font-opentype
  Stream #0:6: Attachment: ttf
    Metadata:
      filename        : ACaslon_Regular.otf
      mimetype        : application/x-font-opentype
  Stream #0:7: Attachment: ttf
    Metadata:
      filename        : angie_Bold.ttf
      mimetype        : application/x-truetype-font
  Stream #0:8: Attachment: ttf
    Metadata:
      filename        : CALLANI.ttf
      mimetype        : application/x-truetype-font

I’ve included two scripts. You can either deactivate the english-audio and sign&songs subs, or completely remove them. Please read-me.txt

Many thanks to Anonymous, Nyanko and Exiled-Destiny for making this possible.

If you find anything that seems out of the ordinary, just post a comment or in my discord and I’ll take a look at it.