Thing is though, the only real benefit of staying "as close to the source BDMV as possible" is typically for people that don't have access to the BDMVs themselves but want to encode it. Other groups already do unfiltered encodes at low bitrates, so I'm kinda confused on why you'd add to the pile instead of improving on the source.
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Other groups who do unfiltered encodes in any substantial numbers:
Reinforce - good, but don't do a lot of series, including some things I really like (like HSL)
Lowpower - does almost everything, a lot of ADDED, horizontally aligned noise in dark areas, does not rip all things from BD. Also their rips have very big problem with motion prediction in dark areas (trails from moving lines on previous and next frames).
SnowRaws - don't do a lot of series (at least not on nyaa), strong denoise damages detail in dark areas.
jsum - not widely available on nyaa, uses blur. Uses bitrate control instead of crf, which backfires in some dark episodes (Slime ep1 is a good example).
Also I haven't seen a single encode with anti-aliasing, that was not losing small detail (faces, small text etc.). You can argue that it worth it, but I come to conclusion that it's not.
Also, I experienced much more encoding bugs in filtered encodes, than in unfiltered, which is not surprising I guess.:)
Thanks, I appreciate you bringing in an alternative that cares about fidelity and is well researched instead of the meme broscience most encoders embrace.
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