I wasn’t happy with my previous encoding of Ben-To as it’s not up to my standard. Instead of being lazy by doing a half-asses release, I decided to re-encoded them all. Everything is new so no patches. I also fix up a bunch of errors made in the previous episodes. Enjoy your new and improved Ben-To!
Video: 1280×720 (10-bit)
Audio: AAC 2.0
Subs: Evetaku (Default track, Picture Dramas)/gg (2nd track)
Hello, what did you improve upon in the video? Better Compression or Video Detail? I Don’t care about size, just quality.
Proper filtering, cropping, trimming and better encoding settings.
so u drop the 1080p even from the batch?
I only keep one version for myself. For various quality related reasons, I decided on the 720p.
Does this mean you’re dropping 1080p all together, or only certain projects?
That only applied to Ben-To and Chihayafuru.
Auwww, this mean i must throw 3.5gb from prev release …
What ’bout Chihaya ‘n Kyoukai, wiil them get same fate, new encoding ? me die …
And where your secret project Holmes ??
And, post to TT, please.
It’s on TT and I always post on TT.
Yes, same fate for Chihaya and Kyoukai. I’m switching to a batch release only, so those kind of things will be avoided. As for Milky Holmes, no one has finish subbing it. We’ll see my care level when/if someone do.
Where the project plan to show who you do or do not and I want to ask whether the project was dropped sekirei season 1?
That page is outdated anyway. I put my plans in my irc topic. As for Sekirei season 1, it’s dropped for now, maybe I’ll pick it again in the future.
Thanks for the release takatin9!
Aren’t there supposed more picture dramas?
Yes, but they are not translated and usually I don’t include untranslated materials.
Thanks! Nice to put effort in re-encoding en fixing errors :]
Can I ask what are your reasons for dropping sekirei season 1?
I’m curious, your post says no V2s but when I downloaded it, it has almost all V2s.
Thanks BTW =3
Actually he said no patches, since it’s re-encodes it’s no use making patches (files differ too much). New versions are still v2′s.
Disappointed about dropping 1080p, but good job nevertheless. Thanks for your work.
Thanks
Hello, I downloaded this because I wanted to watch BDrips but my pc can’t play 720p so I couldn’t watch them. Is there a way that I can make these 480p?
First, make sure you have the lowest cpu playback solution, follow guide here: http://whynotsubs.com/playback-help/ extra step: update mpc-hc and download and install lav-filters from videohelp.com, under LAV only 32-bit video and audio should be installed, 64-bit and splitter isn’t needed. Under “View” -> “Options…” -> “External Filters”, click Add Filter and look for LAV video and audio. On the right, select “prefer”. If you still can’t play 720p, consider re-encoding.
Easiest encoding without knowledge: download handbrake, drag the video in, select High Profile to the right. Disable detelecine and decomb video filters (unnecessary), select Constant Quality RF, slider to 18. 18=almost transparent from a distance, 16=almost transparent but not quite (at 8-bit), 14.5=pretty much transparent. Lower RF equals much higher filesize though, select as needed. You can preview the settings with the preview button. Select desired audio bitrate in AAC. If the video already has AAC, select AAC Passthru, which will copy the original audio unaltered. Once you have all settings as desired, you can either click “start”, or “add to que” and add more videos one by one (settings will remain) and encode all of them. Encoding takes time. If you don’t want to re-encode each time, it’s time to upgrade/buy a new PC.
Oh right, in the video tab select “None” and 848×480 for 480p re-encoding.
After the previous steps you’ll have video and audio, playable on all high profile compliant devices (nearly all), but no subtitles. In handbrake you can add the subtitle and select “burn-in” to burn in the subtitles permanently. Otherwise, download mkvtoolnix to merge the subtitles from the original video into the new video, plenty of tutorials online.
Somewhat I can watch the first episode 720p but subs don’t show up properly. e.g. The first line look like 3 boxes. What can I do for that?
Just a guess, but maybe you’re on XP without any asian fonts? Otherwise I don’t really know, I remember I had those boxes in one video out of thousands and it was a problem with how the file was released, but that shouldn’t be the problem here.
What about picture drama 3-6 ?
Nobody subbed it and Zurako isn’t a fansubbing group, despite the misleading name.