Kokoro Connect
US Blu-ray Encode
Video - 1080P x265 HEVC 10-bit
Audio - DTS-HD, Dual Audio
Subtitles (PGS)
Episode 13 JPN track was missing due to bad metadata on the disc that I didn’t catch. Patch resolves this.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xm9W9GMjVBUltTAVGJpzZ89Lm51gZLj5/view?usp=sharing
Mediainfo
General
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Complete name : Kokoro Connect - S01E06.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 1.95 GiB
Duration : 28 min 1 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
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Writing application : Lavf58.45.100
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ErrorDetectionType : Per level 1
Video
ID : 1
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Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile : Main 10@L4@High
Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC
Duration : 28 min 1 s
Bit rate : 5 963 kb/s
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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
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.120
Stream size : 1.17 GiB (60%)
Writing library : x265 0.0:[Mac OS X][clang 12.0.0][64 bit] 10bit
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Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : DTS XLL
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Commercial name : DTS-HD Master Audio
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 26 min 1 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 2 088 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF)
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossless
Stream size : 389 MiB (20%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Audio #2
ID : 3
Format : DTS XLL
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Commercial name : DTS-HD Master Audio
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 26 min 1 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 2 116 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF)
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossless
Stream size : 394 MiB (20%)
Language : Japanese
Default : No
Forced : No
Text #1
ID : 4
Format : PGS
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Duration : 24 min 17 s
Bit rate : 4 883 b/s
Count of elements : 73
Stream size : 869 KiB (0%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Text #2
ID : 5
Format : PGS
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Duration : 25 min 44 s
Bit rate : 57.1 kb/s
Count of elements : 692
Stream size : 10.5 MiB (1%)
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No
Menu
00:00:00.000 : :Chapter 01
00:01:33.009 : :Chapter 02
00:03:02.974 : :Chapter 03
00:10:16.032 : :Chapter 04
00:24:15.036 : :Chapter 05
00:24:31.970 : :Chapter 06
00:26:01.560 : :Chapter 07
Comments - 11
Simplistic
You’re the first person I’ve ever seen encode from a mac.
EDIT: Also, I think you set the mediainfo to explode after being viewed.
SomaHeir
Thx!!!
Tatsumeg (uploader)
@Simplistic I’m lucky that I have a choice, but I tend to go Mac most of the time. :) As for the mediainfo link, Hastebin is supposed to stick around for 30 days after it’s last view. I may switch it or embed it in the description if you and others are having issues though.
npz
Interesting. Why the ABR though? Also from the looks of it, you used medium and changed psy?
Simplistic
Yeah, It seems to work again @Tatsumeg. Also, yeah why ABR instead of CRF?
Tatsumeg (uploader)
I use Don Melton’s excellent transcoding tools, specifically other-transcode. His goals are encodes that can’t be distinguished from the originals and has recently been working a lot with hardware video encoding. I used to spend boatloads of time hanging around in the Doom9 and VideoHelp forums and crafting Avisynth scripts for my encodes. But it got to a point where I was spending more time doing that than actually enjoying my tv shows and movies. After discovering Don’s initial tools about 6 years ago, it helped restore the balance.
For this encode and my previous encode, I decided to use the x265 software encoding option as it may get a little bit better quality at the expense of encoding speed. For example, the Kokoro encode took around 10 hours. For fun, I ran the same encode as a hardware encode this morning using my Windows box/nVidia card and it ending up taking just a little over an hour. I doubt I could tell which encode was which so maybe I’ll use the hardware encoder for my next release.
As to the use of ABR, this explains it a lot better than I can.
@npz, I also couldn’t find any specific instances of psy or medium in the github code repository, so I’m guessing that they are being set as defaults when the ABR settings are used.
Simplistic
Seems fine on shows that don’t “require” filtering, such as most Japanese Blu-rays. However, most USA Blu-rays suffer from color banding hell, so you still end up needing some sort of filtering. That is if the banding bothers you of course.
Tatsumeg (uploader)
Yes, definitely…that’s the potential drawback with this method…it’s only as good as the source is.
Tatsumeg (uploader)
@Simplistic – do you have any examples of Avisynth/Vapoursynth filtering scripts that could be used? I feel like I’m totally out of the game…it’s been years.
Stuntman
Man, you made a BIG mistake. Episode 13 doesn’t have the Japanese audio track -_-
Tatsumeg (uploader)
Patch for episode 13 missing audio.