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Movie: Dio: Holy Diver Live
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6321130/
Video: 1920x1080p 60FPS 10 bit AV1
Size: 3207 MiB
Settings: Preset 2, CRF 36
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Audio: Opus Stereo 160kbps, Opus 5.1 Surround 224kbps
Languages: English
Subtitles: None
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Encoded by: TheSpectre
Group: Formerly of AV1D
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Encoder: SVT-AV1-PSY
Version: v2.1.0-A-1-g37a5609b (release)
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Tools: (Rust) av1an 0.4.1-unstable (rev 6d2325d)
MKVToolNix v86.0 ('Winter')
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The Show:
Dio performs the album Holy Diver in its entirety at the London Astoria.
Director: Perry Joseph
Stars: Ronnie James Dio, Simon Wright, Doug Aldritch, Rudy Sarzo, Scott Warren
About:
AV1 is a modern free format providing amazing quality
at lower bitrates than h.264/265.
To improve AV1 playback, using a recent build of mpv/VLC should help drastically on dekstop and laptop platforms.
As for Android devices, the latest mpv-android should do well.
If you still can't get it to play, try using VLC and a mid
to high end Android/iDevice from 2016 or beyond. And even
Chrome can play it if you rename the .mkv to .webm!
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Lastly: As an attempt to spread and hopefully popularize AV1,
here's my encode command for this encode:
av1an -i "input.vpy" -e svt-av1 -v " --preset 2 --crf 36 --film-grain 12 --lp 16 " -w 1 -a " -an " --min-scene-len 60 -m lsmash -c mkvmerge -o "output.mkv"
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Encoder's Notes: Source is a somewhat blocky mid-2000s 1080i digital master, so temper your expectations. I've listed my Vapoursynth script below to help future encoders with similar sources.
import vapoursynth as vs
import havsfunc as haf
core = vs.core
video = core.bs.VideoSource(source="title_t00.mkv")
video = haf.QTGMC(video, Preset="slow", TFF=True, FPSDivisor=1)
video = haf.deblock_qed(video)
video = core.neo_f3kdb.Deband(video, sample_mode=5, range=20, keep_tv_range=True, preset="veryhigh")
video.set_output()