[Reza] Kanojo mo Kanojo - S01E02 [WEBRip 1080p HEVC AAC] | Girlfriend, Girlfriend

THX

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thanks! but this should be tagged as ‘red’ or ‘remake’. :^)

Thanks

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Mark remakes as such in the future please, at the moment we recognize re-encodes of subsplease and similar as remakes if they contain no significant changes from the original release.

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@Kokoro I'm interested to know what is regarded as a 'significant change.' Fansub releases seem fine, so would edited subtitles be enough? This seems like unfair guidance, considering the lengths that some, including myself, go to during filtering and encoding.

One of my main (and really only) issues with the current system is that, as I understand it, there is no clear guidance on what counts as a remake. Right now, it seems that any release that is a "mini encode" should be marked as a remake, with a "mini encode" being defined as an HEVC release of less than around 2500kbps, regardless of whether the encoder threw the video into handbrake on an ultrafast nvenc preset, or spent a few hours writing a Vapoursynth script, and then used a slow x265 preset. I appreciate that this a fairly new issue, given that up until recently there weren't any so-called mini encoders that appeared to put any significant effort into their releases, however over the last year that has changed drastically, and it has gotten to a point where I would argue that many Judas releases have more time and effort put into them than some 'fansub' releases.

Ideally, I would like for there to be more guidance on what constitutes a remake, so that there is less confusion on what should go where. In a perfect world I would also like for there to be more catagories than just remake and not a remake, though I do not have any good ideas on what other catagories there should be, and how they could be implemented.

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why put effort into the filtering/encoding if you're just gonna make the file tiny for no real reason? and why not improve the subs? improving the subs is actually much easier in most cases.

Mark remakes as such in the future please, at the moment we recognize re-encodes of subsplease and similar as remakes if they contain no significant changes from the original release.

Thought re-make is only for mini-encodes

@herkz, both your questions entirely missed the point of what I was saying, but I will answer them anyway.

why put effort into the filtering/encoding if you’re just gonna make the file tiny for no real reason?

What constitutes a 'tiny' file? I'm sure we can all agree that an Xvid encode at 100kbps is starved, and lossless encodes are bloat, but where you draw the line between too small and a good size differs greatly between different people. I would suggest that realisiticly, the majority of people who are on this site will see no significant difference in video quality between a Judas release and an SCY release because they're all so used to the awful standards on youtube and broadcast TV. Recently, Judas has stopped caring so much about staying within arbitrary file size limits, instead opting to keep a baseline level of quality between all releases: we aren't focussing on releasing small files - we're focussing on releasing efficient files.

why not improve the subs?

I could say the same about the encodes for many fansub releases. Commie aren't exactly known for the best quality encodes, but it's not like they have to mark their releases as remakes, because they've changed the subs. How is the video any different in this respect? I'm of course not suggesting that Commie releases should be marked as remakes, that'd be stupid, however saying that not modifying the subs in any form should denote a remake does not make any sense.

As of right now, the "remake" tag is basically used as a "filter the minis away" tag. This is something that I'm sure many users want, given how vocal the 'mini encode' opposition is, but even then it doesn't work: there are countless 'mini encoders' who do not mark their releases as remakes, who also explicity say that their sources are SubsPlease or similar. I don't expect the admins to manually go through and decide for every release on nyaa what should be marked as a 'mini encode,' even disregarding those that blur the boundary - because that'd be ludicrous. Therefore, users have come up with filters that they can just append to any search to remove any unwanted garbage. So what's it even for?

This just leads back to my original point; there should be more catagories for users to be able to filter how they want to. Implementing this well is probably impossible, but sticking with the status quo is just sidestepping the issue.

Why not just make an x264/x265/av1/raw filter, other than not giving the peasants what they want?

@gcs8 technically already exists (i.e. you can search -"x265" -"HEVC" to get rid of all releases marked as x265 or HEVC, which given that many state the codec in the title, works fairly well for that), but also doesn't actually solve the issue. This would lump large x265 releases with small ones, which is not the intention. This also skips over the problem that x265 is used as a synonym for HEVC, when x265 is the encoder for the HEVC codec. This becomes an issue when you have people who release NVEnc encodes that are far less efficient, but titled as x265. I'd love to be able to filter out NVEnc stuff, but that's just not doable sadly.