Thanks please add more

thanks! top release!

Thanks for the release :)

Interesting release, high fidelity CPU-1 gang, assemble ! (≧ω≦)
More seriously though, I don’t really get the point of going to the extreme of using CPU-1 for serious/big releases. It’s like using veryslow in x265, yeah there will be improvements, but it’s extremely marginal for the speed loss you get in return. Even more for AV1 actually. CPU-2 already doesn’t offer much more than CPU-3 can, and CPU-3 is considered the point of diminishing return. And when the aomenc psy fork exists for the sake of having better fidelity out of aomenc existing tools with some tweaking, I believe you can get near those result for faster.
Still at this point I’m not gonna complain about the quality for sure :)
Thank you for this release, I look forward to watching those Kobayashi-san seasons.

Epic stuff!
Now we have to wait until Plex supports AV1…
Also only 128 kbps for audio? With the amount of quality in the video you couldn’t go up a little higher? Kinda lame but oh well.

arigatou!

Beautiful work! Thank you.

@guysome11

128kbps is considered transparent to source for simple stereo tracks in Opus - ESPECIALLY for TV anime which is generally lazy-mastered and sonically trivial - we aren’t listening to Mahler’s 2nd Symphony here. Not to mention, Opus was originally intended (back in pre-2010 days when it was still being drafted) to improve vocal communication fidelity over low-bandwidth networks and is the prime codec for voice audio - no other codec can beat it for voice compression-to-quality efficiency - the newer proprietary xHE-AAC (USAC/exhale) codec will probably match it in the end and MAY even beat it - but it’s still being proven in testing and field applications, and Opus is continuing development. USAC will most likely see wider commercial distribution at the same time as VVC video.

Since TV anime mostly consists of voice dialogue, Opus is perfect, and it’s just a happy result that continued development of the codec resulted in incredible performance on music and other more complex audio - although Opus does benefit from being bumped up to 160 or maybe even 192 for very sonically complex music such as harpsichord chamber music or large symphonic choir. I’ve found that 160 is transparent to source for most classical in my library.

AAC, which you are probably used to, requires many more bits to reach transparency, and sometimes never does due to the comparatively poor quality of royalty-free encoders next to license-encumbered commercial ones - only the Apple proprietary AAC encoder is any good and it’s a pain to encode with legally due to the need for separate software toolchains (it is not a free encoder).