The REAL encoder poll of eternal epicness
The files are here!!
Okay, for real, who's the newest Shamisen encoder? (vote for two)
- Gavers (63%, 20 Votes)
- K.o.R. (47%, 15 Votes)
- Rimi (34%, 11 Votes)
- Victor1139 (22%, 7 Votes)
Total Voters: 32
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If any of you, as you’re all good, would be interested in helping me out by encoding Weiss Survive/R for DATS from the TS source, please gimme a holler. I have all the TLs but no encoder

Hello Shamisen!
I am downloading right now, will vote tomorrow (in 6-24h), so wait for my vote ^w^
We’ll probably have about 3 days of voting
Thats great
Btw, I alredy made my vote ^^
It was quite hard since they all look great and sond great as well.
What I did was to (1) watch and listen at a specific part one by one and compare, (2) take screenshots with vlc and compare.
My results: Umm, I can go with either one, all encoders did a great job. Why not take them all in, Shamisen Subs will rule the anime world
I’ll download while I sleep tonight ready for tomorrow when I have a 3 hour gap around lunchtime.
Wow, Rimi’s was really fantastic. I found K.o.R’s too blurry. Gaver’s didn’t play audio (same as the first mp4 he put up, mplayer couldn’t even play it).
I’m actually amazed at how good Rimi’s is despite having a lower average bitrate. Viewing it full screen there are more artifacts due to the lower average bitrate (like the red-on-white text title frame could benefit from more love), but otherwise it’s just great.
*checks up on WS* 3 minutes per episode? Sure, I’ll give it a shot
Sent you an e-mail
Played all 4 at once (gavers had an invalid description, so I had to VLC it which was annoying).
Comparing all 4, I got it down to K.O.R. and rimi.
Comparing K.O.R. and rimi in more detail, I saw that K.O.R. was blurry and was a bit odd in the aspect ratio. rimi’s was awesome though.
“bit odd in the aspect ratio” <- Please elaborate for I am curious
Arg I deleted the files now. Basically, yours and rimi’s were a little different in width. It’s possible that this width difference made your more blurry than rimi’s. Though, looking at the poll at the moment, it seems I’m the only one who’s really noticed.
No, it’s just rimi’s that’s a bit odd in aspect ratio; it’s 870×478, rather than 852×480.
Mine is an on-the-fly resize to 16:9 using the MKV anamorphic flag; the video stream itself is 720×480.
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