Blue Box S01 (Batch) [BDRip 1080p AV1 Opus] (Dual Audio, Multi Subs, VF, VOSTFR) | Ao no Hako アオのハコ Season S1

Main info:

• [Trix] -> that's me (@nekotrix), join AV1 weeb edition
  Blue Box -> anime title, info on AniDB, MyAnimeList, AniList
  S01 -> season number, following TheTVDB's scheme
  Batch -> contains the complete season
• BDRip -> encode from a BDMV source (here JPBD via U2)
  1080p -> video resolution (1920x1080 @ 23.976 FPS)
  AV1 -> 📺 video format (Main + 4:2:0 + 10-bit = hardware friendly)
  Opus -> 🔊 audio format (Stereo 2.0 @ 128kbps)
• Dual Audio -> 🔊 multiple audio tracks: Japanese 🇯🇵, English 🇺🇸 & French 🇫🇷
  Multi Subs -> 📄 multiple subtitles tracks including: English [whomst], English Signs/Songs [whomst], English [Dubtitle], English (SDH), French [Aoi-Project], French Signs/Songs [Aoi-Project], Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Japanese (SDH) [NF], Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Iberian), Romanian, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
  VF, VOSTFR -> keywords to denote the presence of french audio and subtitles

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Misc info:

Full Sources: BDMV@U2 (Video), CRUCiBLE (Audio, Subs, Chapters), Aoi-Project (Audio, Subs), Cover

Encoding details:

• Filtering: Strong denoise, mild dehalo & deband
• Encoder: SVT-AV1-PSY (5fish): --preset 1 --crf 12
• Command Line Used:

for i in {01..25}
do ffmpeg -i "${i}_lossless.mkv" -hide_banner -v quiet -strict -1 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -f yuv4mpegpipe - | SvtAv1EncApp-5FISH -i - --progress 3 --preset 1 --crf 12 --keyint 0 --config "${i}.cfg" --scm 0 --tune 0 --enable-qm 1 --chroma-qm-min 10 --variance-boost-strength 1 --variance-octile 4 --ac-bias 1.0 --spy-rd 2 --sharp-tx 1 --complex-hvs 0 --low-q-taper 1 --qp-scale-compress-strength 1.5 --enable-cdef 0 --enable-restoration 0 --chroma-distortion-taper 1 --skip-taper 1 --fast-decode 1 --tile-columns 2 --color-primaries bt709 --transfer-characteristics bt709 --matrix-coefficients bt709 --fgs-table custombb.tbl -b "${i}_hq.ivf"
done

Note: Been working for three whole months on this show. I've been meaning to make two quality variants since the beginning, from tests I started doing all the way back when the first BD volume came out. I saw pretty quickly this source would be challenging, but I think the results ended up great! This release is the higher quality version of the usual [Trix] release. Otherwise, everything else is the same between the releases. See y'all for season 2!

Video Comparison: BDMV vs Trix (BD Thicc) vs Trix (BD Mini) vs Trix (WEB)

Tired of VLC acting up with Opus audio, with subtitles, with color rendition? We recommend the MPV media player for the best playback experience (TheWiki Guide). Always keep your software up-to-date!

Direct Download Link: Episodes DDL, attachments download & more on AnimeTosho

Language Options
You can download here two scripts that do the following (Windows/macOS-Linux):

• Keep Japanese: Throws out all audio tracks other than Japanese
• Keep English: Throws out all audio and subtitles tracks other than English

Put all the video files into the Language Options folder and run the corresponding script. The resulting files can be found in the output folder.

Note: MKVToolNix must be installed on your system

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