Man, who hates mini encodes? There's BARELY any quality loss, and the amount of space saved is immense. Mini encodes are doing WONDERS for my hard drive.
As someone who has to make room for 380 anime's ( and growing each season) and 200 anime movies on an 8TB hard drive these releases are a godsend for putting off the inevitable expansion I will have to do eventually. Hell One Piece and Detective Conan take up almost a TB by themselves. So yeah while I understand the loss of audio quality but the space savings are great and the image quality is good too.
Wonder how big of a HD space that mini encoder hater has? because I imagine he either spends all his money on getting some beefy 16Tb + ones or just dumps them after watching because they eat up space fast.
Seriously thanks Ember! Keep up the good work!
mini-encode's are only bad if you have a computer [or other device] that can't handle the high compression. These days even most smart tv's can handle hevc. The only animes I waste space on non hevc encodes are uncensored ecchi bdrip's like highschool DxD, or action packed bdrips like rezero and even than I can't tell much of a difference on any screen under 50 inches!
>There’s BARELY any quality loss
I doubt you have ever seen any good encode in your life and you're just trying to justify your inferiority by watching this trash. Trying to make yourself believe that this is good because you cant even afford a decent harddrive.
I always laugh at people who think that their ears can hear the difference between FLAC and Opus 128 (for TV anime) or AAC (for recent encoder versions or Apple qAAC). Pro-tip: You can't. Nobody can. Anybody who claims to have golden ears is lying. It has been scientifically proven that such ears don't exist. Opus at 128 VBR has complete transparency to source for TV anime (which generally has poorly engineered audio, done on the cheap, in the first place), and at higher bitrates is indistinguishable from source for almost everything. At 256 even the most sonically complex classical music is indistinguishable from source (at that point, the equipment used to record the music is far more influential on quality), although there is evidence to suggest that Opus 1.3.x achieves that transparency at 192 or even 160. Claims of audible "artifacting" introduced by the Opus encoder are psychological in nature and subjective to the listener - lab tests with highly sensitive measurement and comparison equipment produce no such results.
Unless you SPECIFICALLY have the mission/goal of long-term archiving of "raw" BD rips of anime releases due to a hoarding compulsion or acting as a raw-source for re-encodes in future video formats, there is no point in downloading FLAC or mega-encodes.
All the same arguments more or less apply to video quality. There is no point in downloading bloat-encodes unless the only other versions are introducing seriously awful artifacting (blocking, smearing, ghosting, banding, frame blips during fade-outs etc) - unless you have the specific mission of downloading raws and being a source-provider for future encoding teams in future video formats.
The only release group I regularly avoid is Judas due to over-aggressive compression and introduction of artifacts. EMBER provides sufficient bitrate, in most cases, to avoid such problems.
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