Video: Beatrice-Raws
Subs: Kaizoku
Simple remux using Beatrice-Raws video, Kaizoku's subs, and Funimation's English audio. Converted Beatrice-Raws' DTS > FLAC for future consistency. When the BD audio is available for English, I plan to update this.
Video: .mkv, x265 10-bit
Audio Track 1 (Default): English 2.0 AAC
Audio Track 2: Japanese 2.0 FLAC
Subtitle Track 1 (Default): English Signs & Songs (.ASS)
Subtitle Track 2: English Dialogue [Kaizoku] (.ASS)
~~might as well comp kaizoku and beatrice and choose the better video and use the 5.1 jp audio track from the BD while you're at it
[evo][1] has it on nyaa (the 5.1 english track)~~
[1]:https://nyaa.si/view/1401485
Kaizoku had a [comparison](https://slow.pics/c/Y1gpj9Jb) linked in their release. It has minor issues but it's still a lot better than Beatrice's video, which has *more* banding than the JPBD. Kaizoku's release is better if you don't need Eng audio.
If you ever v2 this, just put Eng audio with signs/songs on Kaizoku's release, unless someone comes along and does a better encode.
For what it's worth, did my own comparisons so I could A/B compare frames at 500% zoom. Kaizoku's release has slightly sharper fine detail and more grain retention (added adaptive grain), Beatrice is slightly softer and looks de-grained / clean. Because of this, Kaizoku retains micro-detail slightly better, but I seem to personally prefer Beatrice's less visually noisy image in non-grain heavy scenes. At normal viewing, they are pretty much indistinguishable. Did find a frame where Kaizoku has some minor haloing in the eye at 01:51:55 (on the chapter marker), but you could probably cherry pick problems from both.
I like FLAC over qAAC for archiving (although losing surround) so that tips me over to NH's release. Thanks. Hopefully SCY comes and has a definitive encode.
> Did find a frame where Kaizoku has some minor haloing in the eye at 01:51:55 (on the chapter marker), but you could probably cherry pick problems from both.
Yeah, that's why I said Kaizoku does have small issues. However, Kaizoku is debanded while Beatrice isn't. Banding is probably one of the most noticeable artifacts, so I'd take Kaizoku over Beatrice. Lulu did a mux of Kaizoku with dual audio.
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