@iAHQ, is this a collection of your previous x265 10bit encodings, or did you redo the encoding for all these episodes?
Also for anyone who isn't farmiliar with iAHQ's encodings for Dragon Ball Super, they are the best encodings I have ever seen for anything. I compared the opening of episode 1 of iAHQ's encoding very closely with the Blu-ray, and absolutely every last bit of detail is there. Even at the end of the opening after everyone flies by, and when Goku jumps high up in the sky, all those darker spots in the blue of the sky are there and exactly match. I paused both videos at matching frames and used the windows taskbar icon for vlc to jump between the 2 videos in full screen. Although my monitor's resolution is 1280x768, not 1080p.
I haven't checked all episodes, but I imagine there is no difference since it is the same encoding. The difference in file size has to do with the animation having more or less movement. For example, Arc 5 episodes 3-15 are larger for this reason. So the file size is really worth it since it is still much smaller than the Blu-ray.
The only thing that's better about the Blu-ray is that it is much easier on the processor which may be better for you if you have an older computer. x265 is hard on the processor, and I have an older i3 processor with onboard video card using the i3 gpu. It may even be 10 years old, and I can't have any other program running on my computer for it to play smoothly. Having utorrent and google chrome open already makes it unplayable. Restarting the computer can help if I can't get the video to play smoothly.
@Englishsubtitles
I don’t know what you consider better about that other torrent. It clearly says in the info for that torrent that episodes 77-131 are denoised to keep file sizes in control. iAHQ didn’t do that for those episodes which you can see by the higher file sizes (although he does have another torrent where he did do that for some episodes), so the quality in this torrent will definitely be better for those episodes. Besides, as I said in my first post, I cannot find any difference between the image for this encode and the Blu-ray. You can’t get better quality than that.
@Mdsn
On my older computer, I should have mentioned that it takes long to start the video, and when jumping to another spot in the video it also freezes and takes a few seconds to catch up and start playing, and when it starts playing again the audio plays faster and higher pitch for one or two seconds before it goes back to normal. But it does play smoothly. Also thanks for your suggestion of the Raspberry pi 4.
@DTG75
Good point. I wasn’t thinking about that. Yes the Japan Blu-rays have a larger amount of data than the funimation ones. I haven’t compared the picture yet, so I can’t comment on the difference. My comment was solely for the purpose of giving a review of this encode of the Funimation Blu-rays.
Comments - 20
RJS
ShadowVlican
SomaHeir
omnipotent500
JohnnyOak
sameer
mrbean
gensuke
gensuke
Mdsn
Impakt
SakuraKinomoto
DTG75
mrbean
Bleachway
Jhonata
Satan
TheDevilsHyper
Nigga_San
eszett