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There's a lot of parallels with quality issues in official anime streaming. It's not unusual for those involved in the fansub scene to be obsessed with figurin
by jwells89 3y ago
There's a lot of parallels with quality issues in official anime streaming.
It's not unusual for those involved in the fansub scene to be obsessed with figuring out how to encode shows to look their best with a given codec, with settings often being dialed in per-episode, while services like Crunchyroll and Netflix seem to have one-size-fits-all settings that have issues that are readily visible even on cheap commodity screens. Most notoriously, they're bit-starved with dulled colors, smudged motion, and extremely bad banding in dark scenes.
- Dylan16807 3y agoNetflix has extremely elaborate compression setups to eke out every last bit, so if it looks bad on a reasonable connection then they're effectively doing that on purpose by being too aggressive. I would not call it lack of effort. Crunchyroll seems to happily throw 6-8MBps at things, is that not enough with h.264?
- jwells89 3y agoI've been on gigabit fiber for years so I doubt connection speed is an issue. Between the two Netflix is usually worse with dark scenes in anime. If I had to guess their settings are better optimized for live action shows/movies, which to my eye generally fare better with their encoding than anime does. Crunchyroll is generally ok-ish but even at 6-8mbps it still sometimes struggles with high detail (grain for example) and motion, and as I mentioned earlier sometimes colors can be a bit washed out. Banding is also sometimes a problem but not to the extent that it is with Netflix.