Hello!
In terms of video quality, my raws should be comparable to ReinForce (since I started from their settings, and then modified it). I don't use AA, blur, denoise and other such "enhancments". Basically, the idea of my encodes will be: as similar to BDMV as possible, while redusing size 3-4 times. Also I will rip Audio Commentary's, interview's and such things (everything, that's on BD).
My rips are made from Japanese BDMV, unless stated otherwise.
Scans were converted from TIFF to PNG without crop.
If you found any Bugs, mistakes, problems etc. Please comment! If needed I will reencode.
About this Anime:
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39071
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=14630
MediaInfo:
General
Unique ID : 12460882348410567420954302155619200326 (0x95FE0EEDE157692DE133FE790826D46)
Complete name : D:\work\Rip\Machikado Mazoku\[IrizaRaws] Machikado Mazoku (BDRip 1920x1080 x264 FLAC)\[IrizaRaws] Machikado Mazoku - 01 (BDRip 1920x1080 x264 FLAC).mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 1.00 GiB
Duration : 24 min 5 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 5 956 kb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2020-02-09 13:57:18
Writing application : mkvmerge v42.0.0 ('Overtime') 64-bit
Writing library : libebml v1.3.10 + libmatroska v1.5.2
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.2
Format settings : CABAC / 8 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, RefFrames : 8 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 24 min 5 s
Bit rate : 5 278 kb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.106
Stream size : 910 MiB (89%)
Writing library : x264 core 157 r2969 d4099dd
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=8 / deblock=1:-2:-2 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=0.70:0.00 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=22 / lookahead_threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=9 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=0 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc=crf / mbtree=0 / crf=18.0 / qcomp=1.00 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=20 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:1.00
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Audio
ID : 2
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec
Codec ID : A_FLAC
Duration : 24 min 5 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 676 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 11.719 FPS (4096 SPF)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 117 MiB (11%)
Title : Main FLAC 2.0
Writing library : libFLAC 1.3.2 (UTC 2017-01-01)
Language : Japanese
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:Intro
00:01:30.006 : en:OP
00:02:59.971 : en:Part A
00:10:40.014 : en:Part B
00:22:20.005 : en:ED
00:23:49.970 : en:Preview
\>since I started from their settings, and then modified it
Please don't. There might be reasons not filtering the video and linking that more, but at least copy them from a decent encoder.
\>as similar to BDMV as possible
Which totally won't happen with crf=18. Rather aim for crf=15 or at least 16.
Instead of reducing quality with crf you could improve other settings gaining lower file size.
There is no reason for mbtree=0 or qpmax=20
Also: 10bit would help as well and reduces introduced banding.
aq=3:1.00 is also a good idea for less banding.
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