Kaleido Star - MyAnimeList.net

V2 WITH IMPROVEMENTS IN EVERY CATEGORY: https://nyaa.si/view/1465300

Information:

• encoded the video track to HEVC (libx265/libx264, crf 22-24)
• encoded the japanese audio tracks to AAC (libfdk_aac)
• the files are named correctly according to thetvdb.com OR anidb

Disclaimer:

• The second and third OVA don't contain english audio tracks, but translated subtitles.

Source:

Anonymous - video, audio (jpn,eng) and subtitles (eng)
Yanix - subtitles (eng, OVA2 and OVA3)

Screenshots:

Season 1:
Season 2:
OVA2:

FFprobe:

ffprobe version n4.4 Copyright (c) 2007-2021 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 11.1.0 (GCC)
  configuration: ... --enable-libfdk_aac ...
  libavutil      56. 70.100 / 56. 70.100
  libavcodec     58.134.100 / 58.134.100
  libavformat    58. 76.100 / 58. 76.100
  libavdevice    58. 13.100 / 58. 13.100
  libavfilter     7.110.100 /  7.110.100
  libswscale      5.  9.100 /  5.  9.100
  libswresample   3.  9.100 /  3.  9.100
  libpostproc    55.  9.100 / 55.  9.100
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'Kaleido Star (2003) - S01E01 - My Amazing Stage Debut.mkv':
  Metadata:
    ENCODER         : Lavf58.76.100
  Duration: 00:23:01.02, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 2228 kb/s
  Chapters:
    Chapter #0:0: start 0.000000, end 90.000000
      Metadata:
        title           : オープニング
    Chapter #0:1: start 90.000000, end 646.972000
      Metadata:
        title           : Aパート
    Chapter #0:2: start 646.972000, end 1289.989000
      Metadata:
        title           : Bパート
    Chapter #0:3: start 1289.989000, end 1350.091000
      Metadata:
        title           : エンディング
    Chapter #0:4: start 1350.091000, end 1380.914000
      Metadata:
        title           : 次回予告
  Stream #0:0(jpn): Video: h264 (Main), yuv420p(tv, bt709, progressive), 1440x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 180k tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      title           : Japanese
      DURATION        : 00:23:01.006000000
  Stream #0:1(jpn): Audio: aac (LC), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp
    Metadata:
      title           : Japanese
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 97388228
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v7.0.0 ('Where We Going') 32bit built on Jun  9 2014 15:08:34
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP-eng: mkvmerge v7.0.0 ('Where We Going') 32bit built on Jun  9 2014 15:08:34
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC: 2014-08-27 08:34:25
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC-eng: 2014-08-27 08:34:25
      _STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
      _STATISTICS_TAGS-eng: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
      BPS             : 564168
      BPS-eng         : 564168
      DURATION-eng    : 00:23:00.980000000
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 16184
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 16184
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 97388228
      ENCODER         : Lavc58.134.100 libfdk_aac
      DURATION        : 00:23:01.022000000
  Stream #0:2(eng): Audio: aac (LC), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp (default)
    Metadata:
      title           : English
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 27605806
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v7.0.0 ('Where We Going') 32bit built on Jun  9 2014 15:08:34
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP-eng: mkvmerge v7.0.0 ('Where We Going') 32bit built on Jun  9 2014 15:08:34
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC: 2014-08-27 08:34:25
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC-eng: 2014-08-27 08:34:25
      _STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
      _STATISTICS_TAGS-eng: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
      BPS             : 160027
      BPS-eng         : 160027
      DURATION-eng    : 00:23:00.053000000
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 64690
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 64690
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 27605806
      DURATION        : 00:23:00.107000000
  Stream #0:3(eng): Subtitle: ass
    Metadata:
      title           : Dialogue
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v7.0.0 ('Where We Going') 32bit built on Jun  9 2014 15:08:34
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP-eng: mkvmerge v7.0.0 ('Where We Going') 32bit built on Jun  9 2014 15:08:34
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC: 2014-08-27 08:34:25
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC-eng: 2014-08-27 08:34:25
      _STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
      _STATISTICS_TAGS-eng: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
      BPS             : 126
      BPS-eng         : 126
      DURATION-eng    : 00:22:45.220000000
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 374
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 374
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 21612
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 21612
      DURATION        : 00:22:57.703000000

Many thanks to Anonymous and Yanix for making this possible.

I have included a script for windows and linux users, that removes the english audio and turns the subtitles on. (using ffmpeg)

If you find anything that seems out of the ordinary, just post a comment and I'll take a look at it.