Zhentarim DivX - zx.big-o.nfo
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Title : Big O
Genre : Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction
Parts : 01-13 (First Season, complete)
: 14-17 (Second Season, 9 to go)
Release Date : May 2002 (First Season)
April 2004 (Second Season)
Feature Length : Approx 24mins
Size : 3 Episodes per CD
Audio Languages : Japanese/English
Subtitles : English
Audio Encoding : Quality 3 VBR Ogg Vorbis
Video Frame Rate : 23.976/29.970fps VFR
Video Resolution : 640x480
Video Codec : DivX 5.1/5.1.1 4-Pass Slowest
Video Bitrate : ~1150kbit/sec / 1400kbit/sec
Source : R1 NTSC DVD
Ripper : Mentar
Links : http://anidb.ath.cx/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=animelist&adb.search=big+o
http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,434,bumopp,big_o.html
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Encoding Notes:
The first season was a real breeze - clean, nice Bandai source, quickly
encoded and released, no problem at all. The second season however was
a very nasty surprise for me. I thought "While working on more complicated
stuff, let's keep the CPU busy and quickly release it. Hah.
Big O Second season is the first anime I've encountered which is extreme
in all directions at the same time. Now I know why nobody seemed to have
encoded it yet. Overall, the source is VERY noisy, so it requires alot
of filtering. The flashbacks are totally oversharpened, I had to use an
unfilter(-25,-25) on it to tone it down to tolerable levels. At the
same time, some of the "pondering" scenes are totally oversoftened and
blurry, requiring drastic sharpening to dig out any contrasts at all.
Mix all of this into a single episode, and you have the choice between
doing nothing and screwing up all "extreme" parts, or to use ranged
filtering and ALOT of work. Thanks to YATTA, I could do the latter.
I'm still not very happy about the quality in the end, but at least
it's watchable again. Hope you enjoy it!
BUY it! If you like this, please support the creators of this anime
by purchasing it