Strike Witches

Series

SavI0r	Episodes	MyAnimeList	TVDB	Source
Season 1	12 (S01E01-S01E12)	Strike Witches	Strike Witches	PMR, philosophy-raws, Jimaku, Lord Animation & Dark Knight, AnimWorld, MRW
Season 2	12 (S02E01-S02E12)	Strike Witches 2	Strike Witches 2	PMR, Quetzal, Jimaku, AnimWorld
Movie	1 (S00E07)	Strike Witches Movie	Strike Witches the Movie	Moxie, Jimaku , AnimWorld
OVA	3 (S00E09-S00E11)	Strike Witches: Operation Victory Arrow	OVAs	PMR, RAI, Jimaku
Season 3	12 (S03E01-S03E12)	Strike Witches: Road to Berlin	Strike Witches: Road to Berlin	PMR, LostYears, Erai-raws, AnimWorld

Related Series

For more details see our releases linked below:

Brave Witches	Strike Witches: 501 Butai Hasshin Shimasu! (Strike Witches 501st Joint Fighter Wing Take Off!)	World Witches Hasshin Shimasu! (World Witches Take Off!)	Renmei Kuugun Koukuu Mahou Ongakutai Luminous Witches (League of Nations Air Force Aviation Magic Band Luminous Witches)
Spin-off series with Season 1 and OVA	Spin-off series with Season 1 and Movie	Spin-off series with Season 1	Spin-off series with Season 1

Release

A Dual 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 not all seasons contain the same set of languages.

Encoding Details:

We rescaled the JPBD via VapourSynth using ArtCNN and encoded with our SWAN system to target a SSIMULACRA2 score of ~80. Season 1 cannot be rescaled and more details can be found in the Comparisons section below.

SVT-AV1-Psy 2.3.0 with Av1an (--photon-noise 16)

--preset 4 --crf 28 --aq-mode 2 --tune 2 --keyint 0 --scd 0 --enable-tf 0 --enable-qm 1 --qm-min 0 --qm-max 15 variance-boost-strength 2 --variance-octile 6 --sharpness 2 --qp-scale-compress-strength 3 --noise-norm-strength 0

This project is a production with the goal of the smallest video size with significant subjective compromises to image quality. This is not the hallmark of AV1, but close enough. This release should only contain changes to the video stream and audio tracks. The subtitle and attachment tracks are usually copied from the noted sources. Timings are not adjusted except in cases of extreme delay as a result of mixing sources. - SavI0r

Comparisons

Season 1

The header above links to the comparison of S01E04 between the JPBD, JPBD cropped, the USBDRip from philosophy-raws, and our resulting AV1. The comparison helped determine that the USBD encode would be a worse source than the JPBD. Besides the discrepancy with color and frame-timing, the USBD content is cropped further, has worse lineart, and has less detail/texture/grain than the JPBD. Below are a couple of those comparisons between the USBDRip and this release.

USBDRip	AV1

Season 2

The header above links to the comparison of S02E01 between the JPBD, JPBD rescaled, Quetzal's rescaled AVC, and our resulting AV1. Taking advantage of more modern rescaling methods, our naive attempt surpasses in most cases and is overall satisfactory for our purposes. Below are a couple between Quetzal's AVC and this release.

AVC	AV1

Season 3

The header above links to the comparison of S03E01 between the JPBD, JPBD rescaled, Erai-raws' WEB, LostYears' WEB AVC, WEB rescaled, and our resulting AV1. Below are a couple of those comparisons between LostYears' AVC and this release.

AVC	AV1

Additional

• Operation Victory Arrow
• Movie

Source

Thanks to the following sources:

• PMR - S01, S02, OVA, S03 Video, Audio, Subtitle, Chapter
• Moxie - S00E07 Video, Audio, Subtitle, Chapter
• Jimaku - S01, S02, OVA, S00E07 JA Subtitle
• philosophy-raws - S01 EN Audio
• Quetzal - S02 EN Audio, Subtitle
• RAI - OVA EN Subtitle
• Erai-raws - S03 DE, ES-LA, FR, PT Subtitle
• LostYears - S03 EN Audio
• Lord Animation & Dark_Knight - AR Subtitle
• AnimWorld - S01, S02, S00E07, S03 FA Subtitle
• MRW - S01 DE Subtitle

Media Info

Comment Commentary

@petmyrock: Thank you very much for the offer, we really appreciate it! Fortunately, we found a remux on RuTracker.