# This is a 1080p encode of the 2020 Violet Evergarden Movie
# For an encode with smaller audio there is a DDL and torrent in this link: https://www.odrive.com/s/e4e4513e-89a4-4507-8b47-d29c6f770b83-61c4bb5f
media info as follows:
```
General
Complete name : D:\Movies\Violet Evergarden\[The-Nut] Violet Evergarden The Movie 2020 [DB][1080p 10bit AV1].mkv
File size : 1.09 GiB
Duration : 2 h 20 min
Overall bit rate : 1 115 kb/s
Movie name : Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Writing application : Lavf58.76.100
Writing library : Lavf58.76.100
Video
ID : 1
Format : AV1
Format/Info : AOMedia Video 1
Format profile : Main@L4.0
Codec ID : V_AV1
Duration : 2 h 20 min
Bit rate : 1 Mb/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 : 10 bits
Stream size : 597 MiB
Writing library : Lavc58.134.100 libaom-av1
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Audio
ID : 2
Format : Opus
Codec ID : A_OPUS
Duration : 2 h 20 min
Bit rate : 360 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Stream size : 312 MiB
Compression mode : Lossy
Writing library : Lavc58.134.100 libopus
Language : Japanese
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Text #1
ID : 3
Format : PGS
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Duration : 2 h 20 min
Bit rate : 210 kb/s
Count of elements : 10641
Stream size : 208 MiB (19%)
Language : Japanese
Default : No
Forced : No
Text #2
ID : 4
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 2 h 20 min
Bit rate : 36 b/s
Count of elements : 1414
Stream size : 37.0 KiB (0%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : Yes
Menu
00:00:00.000 : :Chapter 01
00:10:32.298 : :Chapter 02
00:24:40.145 : :Chapter 03
00:42:34.969 : :Chapter 04
00:52:22.973 : :Chapter 05
01:00:12.066 : :Chapter 06
01:11:39.670 : :Chapter 07
01:24:24.184 : :Chapter 08
01:36:34.288 : :Chapter 09
01:48:09.441 : :Chapter 10
01:59:19.277 : :Chapter 11
02:12:49.378 : :Chapter 12
```
samples: https://imgur.com/a/qlvJGg8
File list
[The-Nut] Violet Evergarden The Movie 2020 [DB][1080p 10bit AV1].mkv (1.1 GiB)
AUDIO:
Opus 320k for only 2 channels is a waste of space. For stereo channel 160k is enough, better is 128k. Usually 64k for channel is pretty transparent for Opus files.
I suggest you to add a 7.1ch opus in 320k.
VIDEO:
Missing HDR and presence black bars.
A 4K release should be better.
I expect a 4GB file size for that.
If you do 4K HDR with 7.1ch opus in only 3 GB will be the best release of all
I don't currently own a HDR monitor or TV so I wont be doing any HDR releases if/until I get one. After you mentioned the audio bitrate I looked and the audio stream is over half the video stream XD. whoops. oh well, live and learn
I'd say AV1 is still at the experimental stage. Encoders are only a few years old, so you may get wierd-looking artefacts sometimes. I suggest you encode H265/HEVC with x265 instead. Encoding H265 is also generally much faster than AV1. See [kokomin's guide](https://kokomins.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/anime-encoding-guide-for-x265-and-why-to-never-use-flac) . They also have a TLDR summary, and I am basing my x265 settings around that.
Opus was designed as a teleconferencing codec. It's good at low bitrates. And ONLY at low bitrates. At high bitrates, previous-gen codecs like AAC, vorbis are better. Even at 128kps, AAC is [potentially competitive](https://www.zupimages.net/up/20/45/01gw.png) with Opus. Opus also takes much longer to encode & decode. Conclusion: It's fine to use Opus, only at low bitrates (<=64kps/channel). At high bitrates (>=80kps/channel), use AAC, vorbis, etc.
@junh1024 What a joke, AV1 isn't in "experimental stage" since 2020.
You clearly don't know wth you're talking about since in contrary to what you state Opus isn't good at low bitrates. 128 kbps is known to be transparent, while 128 kbps AAC still has some terrible 16-18kHz low-pass filter that destroys high frequency details. Opus is only marginally slower to encode AND decode, so who cares. The only argument against Opus is that it's not well supported by default on Apple mobile devices and some older devices.
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