DOWNLOAD H.264 720p: [Victorique]_Gosick_-_01-04_[BD][h264-720p][FLAC] [DDL]
This package contains:
- Episodes 01-04
Now for starters this will only be getting a 720p release due to the source not really warranting a 1080p one. I included FLAC audio (even though it doesn’t really warrant it or need it either) but otherwise I’ll get a lot of requests for it, so it’s easier this way. Now to mention size, this is quite large for a 720p but due to the dither/grain in the source and all the dark scenes it is most definitely required to preserve said dark scenes. I’ve done my best to keep size down but this was the best I could do without killing off dither/noise that stops the banding. I don’t want to hear any complaints about how this is too big for a 720p, so deal with it.
The BD version isn’t that different to the TV version, there is no de-censoring or extra scenes (so far). They did remove the GOSICK text between the two parts though. Simply put, download this if you want to archive a better copy of the series. If you are happy with the TV versions then there is no reason to download this because you won’t gain that much, other than the dark scenes looking quite stunning now. The bright scenes look pretty much the same, except without the compression/telecine artefacts, broadcast station’s logo and analog tv is being canned this july warnings (lol).
720p Release
* Video – CRF 17.5
* Audio Track – FLAC 2.0 16bit
Also take note, I’ll be releasing Gosick BD’s every 2 volumes because it’s a hassle to only release 2 episodes each month.
Great. Thank you for doing BDs.
Thank you! I was hoping you’d release this! Now I don’t have to go with coalgirls 😉
Thanks. I never really understood all the excitement about FLAC.
It’s not like the human ear can perceive the difference anyway…
But I understand your choice of going with it nonetheless.
n, it’s for archival reasons. If you use a lossy format (mp3, for example), you can’t re-encode the audio without losing further quality each time. FLAC can be transcoded to any other lossless format no problem, and can be transcoded to a lossy format and said lossy file will be at peak quality. In that sense, FLAC is future-proof – a better lossless format turns up? No matter, you can re-encode and lose nothing.
yes! ilu ar [spoiler]<3[/spoiler]
Thanks for the BDs! 🙂
I’ll download and compare against the raws I got from ANK, thanks for this.
Am I the only one who didn’t get the “Canned TV” part? lol
PS: Thanks for the release. =)
Thanks for doing this. I think the sizes are perfectly reasonable, I’ve seen other 720p releases at this size or larger.
@Haruya
They mean they’re going to stop analog TV broadcasting.
Thanks for releasing these! Really didn’t want to get the coalgirls versions, and I think the sizes are perfectly fine!
Glad to see you’re doing these, thanks!
@franz
<3 you too baby~
@Haruya
Canned = Can
n(cell)edWell, the reason I download from you is because your encodes are awesome in the first place, so I don’t really know if downloading the BD would be worth it. But I may do it anyway, glorious 3rd world countries without download caps are awesome.
I Thought the goodies will be Index II BD…
Anyway thanks for this too !
no commentaties in this one???
will you do the scan? i mean do you scan the cover, or maybe booklet in the BD and etc.?? please?
Are there any script updates for the BDs?
@sharm
Nope. The blu-ray’s have don’t have commentary included. The only extra they come with is some real life dvd thing which doesn’t seem all that interesting.
@FTW
Scans are available on the net if you know where to look. I could upload them at some point I suppose.
@mikeRx
Just some minor ones where they were needed, nothing major so far. Had to fix a few small things I missed in the first batch, whether I’ll update the tv versions I don’t know yet.
@butoi
If I recall correctly, Index II 7-9 are at QC or editor, 10-12 are at Kusion stalling (lol).
@FTW
NO! jk…
http://www.fileserve.com/list/S6MuQw2
-or-
http://www.filesonic.com/folder/6450751
out of curiosity, what dark scenes have now become stunning?
but, I’m kinda new to this stuff… I dont know where to look… can you tell me where to download those scans?
Why the torrent has [Victorique] and not [UTW]? Thanks for the release.
Awesome guys!
@leap
All of them. They no longer look blocky and shitty.
@Horus
Because we released the TV version under Victorique.
@Everyone
Any more questions? lol
This is obviously too big for 720p.
I don’t care about the sizes, usually bigger means better quality right?
I’m fine with that.
It’s big. True. It’s big. Too big for my computer, unfortunately 🙁
And I had troubles trying to download it (torrent). Some error kept occurring, something about it being unable to find something-something.
thanks [SIEGE] Xack lol
so, the next release, will you upload at http://www.fileserve.com/list/S6MuQw2 also?
or do you have a blog or website that i can visit? ^^
@FTW
I’ll just toss it in there.
@[SIEGE] Xack
Care to tell where you found them?
Possibly Share or pd? Or some scan-focused website, like jcafe?
If it was Share, what clusters did you use?
Great job for the BDs, by the way are you still going to do the BDs for Index II?
Oh yeah ar, are there creditless OP and EDs included, and will you rip them, too?
thank you kindly
@virox
Either one of them. The thing is that the uploader included insert scans with the BDMV, so you will have to download the entire BDMV to get the scans. If you do not want to do that, I will gladly upload them to FileServe and FileSonic. They will appear in the folders linked above (http://utw.me/2011/06/08/gosick-bd-vol-1-2/comment-page-1/#comment-20714).
@ virox
what site are this? Share, pd, jcafe? mind to give the links?
@ [SIEGE] Xack
you know where to find other anime BD scans? like, Freezing, Evangelion, IS, Oniichan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Janain Dakara ne, Sttar Driver, etc……….
@virox
No, there haven’t been any creditless extras so far.
@FTW:
ShareEX2 and perfect dark are japanese P2P filesharing programs. There are tutorials on the internet.
jcafe24.net is a nice website to find manga and light novel raws.
Could you please stop this complete nonsense called FLAC ? If you got your hands on uncompressed video sources, would you release the video as a set of PNG files as well for the sake of “preserving quality” ? So it’s future-proof and what not… If that’s the ultimate aim – why do you recode the video source at all ? Preserve the quality !
What’s even more crazy, you complain about “dither/grain in the source and all the dark scenes” but at the same time waste space for FLAC ? Does it even make sense for you ? Use extra bits where it’s worth.
Also: “n, it’s for archival reasons. If you use a lossy format (mp3, for example), you can’t re-encode the audio without losing further quality each time. FLAC can be transcoded to any other lossless format no problem, and can be transcoded to a lossy format and said lossy file will be at peak quality. In that sense, FLAC is future-proof – a better lossless format turns up? No matter, you can re-encode and lose nothing.”
Can you name *a single person* actually extracting, encoding and merging mkv files for this particular purpose ? If you want to appease such people (if they exist all – a fraction of a percent ?) – release flac audio as separate files, and put something normal inside the mkv. They can redo the things to their heart contents and enjoy the difference they won’t even hear.
Grab vorbis (you can even grab aoTuV if you want cutting edge), use -q5 or -q6. You will have a quality second to none. Not a single of those FLAC fanbois will even pass a blind test.
May I suggest some more efficient x264 settings?
E:\Fansubbing\Gosick>avs2yuv “gosick03_processing.avs” – | x264 –crf 16 –pre
set veryslow –bframes 16 –no-fast-pskip –level 4.1 –deblock -1:-1 –aq-stren
gth 1.1 –psy-rd 0.8:0.1 –qcomp 0.65 –colorprim bt709 –transfer bt709 –color
matrix bt709 –qpfile “gosick03_qp.txt” –output “gosick03_video_lv41.mkv” –std
in y4m –
gosick03_processing.avs: 1280×720, 24000/1001 fps, 34993 frames
y4m [info]: 1280x720p 0:0 @ 24000/1001 fps (cfr)
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 FastShuffle SSE4.2 AVX
x264 [info]: profile High, level 4.1
x264 [info]: frame I:260 Avg QP:11.17 size:187294
x264 [info]: frame P:6085 Avg QP:15.11 size: 40692
x264 [info]: frame B:28648 Avg QP:15.22 size: 12950
x264 [info]: consecutive B-frames: 2.6% 1.7% 3.7% 10.8% 9.5% 21.4% 6.3% 8.
3% 1.7% 24.3% 1.2% 3.2% 1.6% 1.7% 0.9% 0.5% 0.7%
x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 41.0% 25.7% 33.4%
x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 1.5% 11.2% 2.7% P16..4: 33.5% 28.4% 9.3% 0.4% 0
.4% skip:12.5%
x264 [info]: mb B I16..4: 0.1% 0.7% 0.1% B16..8: 28.3% 16.6% 5.6% direct:
3.5% skip:45.2% L0:53.2% L1:40.6% BI: 6.2%
x264 [info]: 8×8 transform intra:65.2% inter:40.4%
x264 [info]: direct mvs spatial:100.0% temporal:0.0%
x264 [info]: coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 90.7% 77.5% 63.7% inter: 21.7% 9.1% 2.0%
x264 [info]: i16 v,h,dc,p: 22% 5% 39% 34%
x264 [info]: i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 11% 8% 16% 9% 11% 11% 10% 11% 12%
x264 [info]: i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 13% 8% 4% 10% 15% 14% 12% 12% 12%
x264 [info]: i8c dc,h,v,p: 50% 23% 17% 11%
x264 [info]: Weighted P-Frames: Y:4.1% UV:2.8%
x264 [info]: ref P L0: 41.6% 4.3% 21.6% 8.2% 7.9% 5.3% 5.1% 2.7% 2.9% 0.
3% 0.0%
x264 [info]: ref B L0: 49.7% 17.8% 11.5% 7.4% 5.5% 4.8% 2.7% 0.7%
x264 [info]: ref B L1: 88.1% 11.9%
x264 [info]: kb/s:3657.74
encoded 34993 frames, 5.90 fps, 3657.74 kb/s
For reference, your ep3 video is 4528 kbps, which makes a difference of about 155 MB. Though it looks like you sharpened yours some, which probably increased the size, especially if you didn’t use an edge mask to avoid sharpening all the grain too. I didn’t filter at all except cropping the two pixels of discoloration off all sides and spline36resize to 720p.
@Desbreko
I appreciate your sentiment, but myself and a few others spent the best time of a week messing around with the bd’s and probably did 100+ test encodes with different settings and trying different approaches, but ultimately I settled for you what you see because it worked overall best.
The reason the size is what it is, is to accommodate the noise/dither required to protect it from banding up in dark areas.
It has been sharpened very slightly and yes via an edgemask, but not much at all. Also there is no reason to crop this, they did a pretty good job on the edges. Ultimately I don’t care much about the size rather that the dark scenes remain intact.
You’ve used mb-tree which doesn’t work very well at all with this series and how they’ve done the dither/noise mix. It’s not just about using efficient settings, it’s about adapting the settings to different types of sources. Also what you’ve done there with using so b-frames is kill off the noise/dither and replace it with slight blocking. Mine still had some minor blocking on b-frames at the bitrate/amount of b-frames I’ve encoded it with.
My condition for doing this series was to attempt to keep the size somewhat sensible while maintaining a fairly high degree of transparency to the source, which I believe I have.
Disabling mbtree is a huge waste of bitrate even for grainy anime. Raising aq-strength and qcomp do just as good a job at retaining grain and they do it far more efficiently.
And I realize still shots aren’t exactly the best for comparing grain retention, but picking a few frames at random here actually shows more blocking in your encode, especially in the first one on the guy’s face: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/61537
Seriously, at least give it a try. I think you’ll be surprised by just how close these settings look to what you’re using now.
Glad to see you’re doing these, thanks
Can anyone tell me which of the following is the best for watching UTW’s subs: WD Live Plus, Roku, or Boxee?
Thanks.