Video: Beatrice-Raws
Subs: Kaizoku
Simple remux using Beatrice-Raws video, Kaizoku’s subs, and Funimation’s English audio. Converted Beatrice-Raws’ DTS > FLAC for future consistency. When the BD audio is available for English, I plan to update this.
Video: .mkv, x265 10-bit
Audio Track 1 (Default): English 2.0 AAC
Audio Track 2: Japanese 2.0 FLAC
Subtitle Track 1 (Default): English Signs & Songs (.ASS)
Subtitle Track 2: English Dialogue [Kaizoku] (.ASS)
Comments - 12
htcguy
There is a 5.1 English audio from Amazon.
NeutralHatred (uploader)
And when I get it, I can patch it. Not the end of the world.
Arid0914
might as well comp kaizoku and beatrice and choose the better video and use the 5.1 jp audio track from the BD while you’re at itevo has it on nyaa (the 5.1 english track)
herkz
pretty sure that’s from itunes
NeutralHatred (uploader)
It clearly states WEB-DL in the file name.
IK-User
Nice!!
SeaSmoke
Kaizoku had a comparison linked in their release. It has minor issues but it’s still a lot better than Beatrice’s video, which has more banding than the JPBD. Kaizoku’s release is better if you don’t need Eng audio.
If you ever v2 this, just put Eng audio with signs/songs on Kaizoku’s release, unless someone comes along and does a better encode.
NeutralHatred (uploader)
I literally see no difference between all three of them. With and without my glasses. Maybe I’m actually blind.
Mabby
For what it’s worth, did my own comparisons so I could A/B compare frames at 500% zoom. Kaizoku’s release has slightly sharper fine detail and more grain retention (added adaptive grain), Beatrice is slightly softer and looks de-grained / clean. Because of this, Kaizoku retains micro-detail slightly better, but I seem to personally prefer Beatrice’s less visually noisy image in non-grain heavy scenes. At normal viewing, they are pretty much indistinguishable. Did find a frame where Kaizoku has some minor haloing in the eye at 01:51:55 (on the chapter marker), but you could probably cherry pick problems from both.
I like FLAC over qAAC for archiving (although losing surround) so that tips me over to NH’s release. Thanks. Hopefully SCY comes and has a definitive encode.
aptop6
@NeutralHatred Lmao… Same here.
SeaSmoke
Yeah, that’s why I said Kaizoku does have small issues. However, Kaizoku is debanded while Beatrice isn’t. Banding is probably one of the most noticeable artifacts, so I’d take Kaizoku over Beatrice. Lulu did a mux of Kaizoku with dual audio.
SomaHeir
Sanks!