Hello,
I spent a while to finally figure out why the software is destroying the bit-rates and quality of anime sources. And I think I've figured out why so much detail is lost. Probably should get better at reading logs, if I would have I would have realized immediately that the bit-rate was too low. (50-50 blame)
If you have an input of lets say, H.264 at 5Mbps then run it through REAL to get 4K, and also have it set to output AV1 very high quality, you get AV1 at 2Mbps. This is terrible for fine details, even if this is anime. And is not made clear when you are setting up the encodes, I had to dig through the logs, which I assume the 'Video Bitrate: 2128kbps' is the output of the encode. Not the source material I had originally thought, which sent me to staxrip, on...Windows. Which didn't tell me anything other than the input was not 2128kbps.. no encode error in source, container structure normal, re-encode just in case, bla, bla, bla.
This is a little confusing, and not 'high quality' in my opinion. And I'd like to ask/recommend changing the options to allow for either a bit-rate variable, or a change in how the 'high quality' preset is defined. I am going to use a lossless codec, and remux after to preserve more fine details. I recommend at least 5Mbps for 4K if the preset(s) remain. The cf-15 is either not set properly, (I hope) or whatever it uses to determine how much detail it can get rid of is not working properly.
Thanks for your time TNT.
Hello,
I spent a while to finally figure out why the software is destroying the bit-rates and quality of anime sources. And I think I've figured out why so much detail is lost. Probably should get better at reading logs, if I would have I would have realized immediately that the bit-rate was too low. (50-50 blame)
If you have an input of lets say, H.264 at 5Mbps then run it through REAL to get 4K, and also have it set to output AV1 very high quality, you get AV1 at 2Mbps. This is terrible for fine details, even if this is anime. And is not made clear when you are setting up the encodes, I had to dig through the logs, which I assume the 'Video Bitrate: 2128kbps' is the output of the encode. Not the source material I had originally thought, which sent me to staxrip, on...Windows. Which didn't tell me anything other than the input was not 2128kbps.. no encode error in source, container structure normal, re-encode just in case, bla, bla, bla.
This is a little confusing, and not 'high quality' in my opinion. And I'd like to ask/recommend changing the options to allow for either a bit-rate variable, or a change in how the 'high quality' preset is defined. I am going to use a lossless codec, and remux after to preserve more fine details. I recommend at least 5Mbps for 4K if the preset(s) remain. The cf-15 is either not set properly, (I hope) or whatever it uses to determine how much detail it can get rid of is not working properly.
Thanks for your time TNT.