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Old 06-04-2018, 08:15 PM   #1861
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I can give you a link to my files that you'd just need to drop into the MPV folder and you press 's' for taking screenshots. The only thing you'd have to change is the screenshot output path and the path to the precompiled shaders.
I'd be interested in this if the configuration is actually good :3
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Old 06-04-2018, 11:50 PM   #1862
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I'd be interested in this if the configuration is actually good :3
I too am interested.
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Old 06-05-2018, 02:03 AM   #1863
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Do you have to disable the default "enhancements" with vlc or something or is it just the player?
The default picture output setting on VLC on Windows actually does give bad levels. I haven't rechecked if they fixed this in the new 3.x versions.
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Old 06-05-2018, 06:37 AM   #1864
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Link to my config https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UXu...ew?usp=sharing

Just unzip to your mpv folder and change the necessary paths in the mpv.conf file.

You activate debanding with the 'h' key. If you want higher debanding strength then increase the iteration steps in the conf.
Page up/down to jump between chapters.

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Old 06-05-2018, 11:14 PM   #1865
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I'm ripping Adolescence of Utena, and while I haven't seen the movie yet on the disc, looking at the audio options in MakeMKV, the disc may have incorrect audio, or it's just labeled wrong. I'll make another post once I know.
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Old 06-06-2018, 12:18 AM   #1866
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The End of Adolescence of Utena

Disc size: 25.73GB
(more on why that's an issue later)

The Film
21GB

Video:
1080p MPEG-4 AVC
26.0 mbps AVG
32.0 mbps MAX
15.4GB

Audio:
(in order of listings)
English LPCM Stereo 16-Bit 1536 kbps
Japanese LPCM 5.1 16-Bit 4608 kbps
Japanese LPCM Stereo 16-Bit 1536 kbps
Commentary Track (with Ikuhara) Stereo 16-Bit 1536 kbps

Okay... there's technically nothing "wrong" with the audio, but it could be better. All of the audio is incorrectly labeled as "English" (the dub track is the only one which should have that label), I have two issues:

1. There is no English 5.1 track. I don't care one bit about dubs, but a 5.1 mix exists in English so why it wasn't included baffles me. Being on a BD-50, there is no reason it couldn't have been included.

2. Ikuhara's commentary, while nice, is lossless, which isn't bad, but when the video bitrate is compressed down because the commentary track takes up a lot of space, it's an issue. It could've been Dolby Digital and wouldn't make much of a difference. If it were DD, it could've fit on a BD-25.

Now, the video. It's not bad, but it could be better.

First off, the bitrate. It's lower than the series. Being on a BD-50 and taking up barely 25GB of content, there is no reason it should be this low. Lazy.

The famous opening shot, with Shichiro Kobayashi's distinctive background artwork, the fast panning shot.. it's rather soft with some noticeable aliasing.

The rest fares much better, but it has quite a bit of what is suspect is Telecine wobble. It's not too distracting, but it is noticeable. I'm assuming this is a source related issue, not a compression/encoding one. It's less sharp and refined than the series, but it's satisfying and better than the DVD. Certainly the low point of the Utena set.
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Old 06-06-2018, 11:53 AM   #1867
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So, the main issue with the Utena set is disc file size management.

Each Episode is 6.5GB, and there are 4 Episodes per disc, which is about 28GB per disc. I feel it’s a waste of space, and the disc art isn’t that good to compensate. So, you could have an even 6-6 split with the same files, and not much would change. The price of the set (and individual volumes) would probably lower a little.

The movie is the big issue. I suspect it was originally going to be on a BD-25, but the extras took up a bit more than 24.9GB in total (which is the max size you could put on the disc), so it was put on a 50GB disc. It’s ironic that Gundam The Origin, which has Episodes about the same length, has 4 lossless tracks (LPCM 5.1 and Stereo in both Japanese and English), plus has a higher Bitrate despite being on a 25GB disc. The only difference is the extras.

The exclusion of an English 5.1 track is strange. Again, I don’t care about the dub whatsoever, but it exists in 5.1, and I assumed it would be in surround here. But it isn’t. The exclusion could be said to save file size on a 25GB disc, but on a 50GB disc, there is enough room to have it and up the video Bitrate.

The Utena set is pretty amazing. Beautiful packaging, and the series looks stunning. The movie was mishandled, but it could be due to a time constraint. All in all, you do get your money’s worth. MVM has the movie in the UK, and while I’m confident they’ll use Nozomi’s encode, if they did make their own, it could end up being better.
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Old 06-06-2018, 03:19 PM   #1868
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So, the main issue with the Utena set is disc file size management.

Each Episode is 6.5GB, and there are 4 Episodes per disc, which is about 28GB per disc. I feel it’s a waste of space, and the disc art isn’t that good to compensate. So, you could have an even 6-6 split with the same files, and not much would change. The price of the set (and individual volumes) would probably lower a little.

The movie is the big issue. I suspect it was originally going to be on a BD-25, but the extras took up a bit more than 24.9GB in total (which is the max size you could put on the disc), so it was put on a 50GB disc. It’s ironic that Gundam The Origin, which has Episodes about the same length, has 4 lossless tracks (LPCM 5.1 and Stereo in both Japanese and English), plus has a higher Bitrate despite being on a 25GB disc. The only difference is the extras.

The exclusion of an English 5.1 track is strange. Again, I don’t care about the dub whatsoever, but it exists in 5.1, and I assumed it would be in surround here. But it isn’t. The exclusion could be said to save file size on a 25GB disc, but on a 50GB disc, there is enough room to have it and up the video Bitrate.

The Utena set is pretty amazing. Beautiful packaging, and the series looks stunning. The movie was mishandled, but it could be due to a time constraint. All in all, you do get your money’s worth. MVM has the movie in the UK, and while I’m confident they’ll use Nozomi’s encode, if they did make their own, it could end up being better.
I looked into the Japanese set, and it looks like Nozomi's is 1:1. Same file sizes, even the movie. Not that that's an excuse for anything but I think the movie just looks like how it does aside from aliasing. It wasn't lavishly restored like the series or even had its telecine wobble mostly corrected.
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Old 06-06-2018, 03:21 PM   #1869
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Wait. It’s a 1:1 clone?

That’s incredible! I don’t have any complaints at Nozomi now. That’s just incredible.
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Old 06-06-2018, 03:40 PM   #1870
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I suspected that all the discs utilized the same video encode as the Japanese release. Thanks for confirming!
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Old 06-06-2018, 08:42 PM   #1871
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Seeing some people getting their Fist of the North Star: The Movie BDs in the mail. Curious as to how it looks. It's evidently based on the same HD master used for the DVD so with the exception of the usual censored sequences, I'm expecting it to look pretty good.
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Old 06-06-2018, 11:50 PM   #1872
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Wait. It’s a 1:1 clone?

That’s incredible! I don’t have any complaints at Nozomi now. That’s just incredible.
I do not have the discs in hand myself, but a "source" tells me the episodes are between 6.82 and 6.89 a piece for the first 6 episodes. The movie is 26.19. So it seems the movie at least, is not 1:1 like I thought after looking into it further. I would be able to better gauge if I had the discs in hand though.

As for the episodes, they appear to be the same or an equal encode.
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^^ Man, that avatar really freaks me out...
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^^ Man, that avatar really freaks me out...
But I am beautiful, though I get that sometimes.
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Old 06-07-2018, 11:15 PM   #1875
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RightStuf has re zero part 1 on blu in stock today.. i hope it not filled with banding all of over it .
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Old 06-07-2018, 11:22 PM   #1876
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It hasn't been that long since the UK version came out so it definitely is. The most we can really do is give negative feedback until they see enough for it to become a bigger issue for them.
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RightStuf has re zero part 1 on blu in stock today.. i hope it not filled with banding all of over it .
Same discs. Those idiots over at FUNimation are the fault.
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Old 06-07-2018, 11:43 PM   #1878
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Speaking of Re:Zero, I contacted FUNimation about the discs via email and they never responded. I emailed them on the 27th of May. No response.

Any luck from you guys?
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Old 06-07-2018, 11:47 PM   #1879
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Well i got my fan subbed ones my my computer from desu that used the Japanese as source so its not a total lose O.o.
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Got my Lupin III Part 4 from @Anime LTD today :
Not the best release in terms of video quality.

4 BD for 26 episodes, the first 12 are spread across 2 single layer (25GO) BD's and the last 14 episodes are spread across 2 double layers (50GO) BD's.
The size varies between 2.8Go and ~4.5 GO per episode.





Here's 2 mediainfo one for the first disc (25GO BD), and one for the last (50GO BD)

[Show spoiler]
Quote:

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Format : Matroska
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File size : 3.28 GiB
Duration : 22mn 51s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 20.5 Mbps
Movie name : Lupin the Third, Part 4 Vol 01
Encoded date : UTC 2018-06-12 17:04:43
Writing application : MakeMKV v1.12.2 win(x64-release)
Writing library : libmakemkv v1.12.2 (1.3.5/1.4.7) win(x64-release)

Video
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Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 22mn 51s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 18.6 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 33.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.374
Stream size : 2.97 GiB (91%)
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
DURATION : 00:22:51.286583333
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Audio
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Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Mode : 16
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 22mn 51s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 509 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 247 MiB (7%)
Title : Stéréo
Language : Japanese
Default : Yes
Forced : No
DURATION : 00:22:51.296000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES : 128559
NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 258660708
SOURCE_ID : 001100
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Format : PGS
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Language : French
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Format : PGS
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Language : English
Default : No
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DURATION : 00:22:48.387854166
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Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:Chapter 01
00:00:50.800 : en:Chapter 02
00:02:10.839 : en:Chapter 03
00:10:57.114 : en:Chapter 04
00:21:10.602 : en:Chapter 05
00:22:20.881 : en:Chapter 06


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Quote:

General
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Duration : 22mn 52s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
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Encoded date : UTC 2018-06-12 17:46:39
Writing application : MakeMKV v1.12.2 win(x64-release)
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Video
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Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.292
Stream size : 2.32 GiB (89%)
Language : English
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Color primaries : BT.709
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Matrix coefficients : BT.709
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Audio
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Compression mode : Lossy
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Language : Japanese
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Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:Chapter 01
00:01:20.997 : en:Chapter 02
00:02:40.785 : en:Chapter 03
00:11:04.664 : en:Chapter 04
00:21:10.852 : en:Chapter 05
00:22:21.840 : en:Chapter 06


Screenshots from the first episode : http://imgbox.com/g/OhfMftAOZz

Quite a lot of banding unfortunatly.

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