Gunslinger Girl Complete + OVA

Series

Sav1or	Episodes	MyAnimeList	TVDB	Source	Encode Notes
Season 1	13 (S01E01-S01E13)	Gunslinger Girl	Season 1	UDF, A-M, zza, DragsterPS
Season 2	13 (S02E01-S02E13)	Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino	Season 2 Il Teatrino	UDF, A-M, zza, DragsterPS	--photon-noise 4
OVA	2 (S00E01-S00E02)	Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino OVA	Specials	UDF, A-M, zza, DragsterPS	--photon-noise 4

Release

An complete Multi Audio release encoded in AV1 and OPUS for optimum size and quality. Files are named to support media servers like Plex using TVDB metadata.

Note that only Season 1 has Japanese subtitles.

Encoding Details:

Although we have recently switched to using SVT-AV1 1.7.0 for future releases, a critical bug with integrating SVT-AV1 encoded variable framerate output with Grav1synth, a crucial grain synthesis application, resulted in corrupted video streams with repeatable, non-random playback issues. After a long and currently ongoing investigation into the cause of the issue, we decided to use AOM-AV1-Lavish for this particular project. However, S02E01 and S02E04 both had critical issues whilst encoding with AOM so we switched to SVT and unfortunately had to forgo grain synthesis. For that reason, these 2 episodes will have a subpar visual experience. During testing, we found an encoding error in the source for S02E01 and are anticipating that there may be more. We also received reports of momentary video stream noise/glitches from our Girls und Panzer project and are considering these issues as part of our investigation. Thanks to everyone involved in reporting these issues.

AOM-AV1-Lavish with Av1an (--photon-noise 54)

--end-usage=q --cq-level=24 --cpu-used=5 --disable-kf --kf-min-dist=12 --kf-max-dist=240 --enable-dnl-denoising=0 --denoise-noise-level=0 --threads=2 --tile-columns=1 --tile-rows=0 --enable-keyframe-filtering=1 --aq-mode=0 --tune-content=psy --tune=ssim --enable-qm=1 --lag-in-frames=48 --luma-bias=50 --luma-bias-power=2 --quant-sharpness=3 --enable-chroma-deltaq=1 --disable-trellis-quant=0 --quant-b-adapt=1 --sb-size=dynamic

SVT-AV1 with Av1an (--photon-noise 4)

--preset 6 --crf 24 --keyint 240 --lp 1 --film-grain 0 --film-grain-denoise 0 --color-primaries 2 --transfer-characteristics 2 --matrix-coefficients 1 --color-range 0 --irefresh-type 1 --aq-mode 1 --enable-overlays 1 --scd 0 --lookahead 48 --tune 2 --enable-cdef 0 --chroma-u-dc-qindex-offset -1 --chroma-u-ac-qindex-offset -1 --chroma-v-dc-qindex-offset -1 --chroma-v-ac-qindex-offset -1 --enable-qm 1 --qm-min 0 --qm-max 15

This project is a production with the goal of the smallest video size without noticeable loss in quality (ie. artifacts, banding, loss of grain/detail, etc.). This is not the hallmark of AV1 - but close enough. - Sav1or

Thanks to the helpful people on the AV1 Anime Discord. Come and join us there!

Source

Thanks to the following sources:

• UDF - Video, Audio, Subtitle
• A-M - Audio, Subtitle
• zza - Subtitle
• DragsterPS - S01 Subtitle
• DragsterPS - S02 + OVA Subtitle

Media Info