8bit AV1 encodes of your previous releases of other anime would be welcome. I can't practically use 10bit on my 8core desktop computer. I was just looking at Violet Evergarden.

@Hogoledo my latest releases should be a lot easier to view compared to previous ones. Attack on Titan Season 3 and Rakugo both are 10bit but have a specific filter disabled that allows them to be viewed even on old systems such as my i5 3rd gen laptop. VLC struggles to decode it somehow, but MPV has no trouble at all. Tested on multiple systems.

I took a glance and it plays better, but still drops some frames. You could call it watchable. I don't know how much trouble it would have in scenes with much movement. I have seen slower decoding in those scenes in the past. What filter did you disable? If the source is 8bit and you are not scaling or filtering it, then there is no reason to encode to 10bit. Many sources are 8bit, even when they are from Blu-Ray.

@Hogoledo the filter is called CDEF, it's only available in aomenc. 10bit is beneficial for multiple reasons. First one is around 5% improvement in overall efficiency, second is solving banding artifacts. Even if the source is 8bit, the banding is hidden by dithering. In encoding process noise is removed, and with 8bit the banding is awful, very visable. You can check out my Bakemonogatari encode to get a visual example. With 10bit the banding is almost completely removed. Due to these benefits I will not be switching to 8bit.

10bit has better efficiency than 8 bit in H264, H265 due to a design deficiency in the motion estimation. There is no reason to presume that AV1 has the same defect because it is different. AFAIK, no one has reported on space efficiency of 10bit versus 8bit in AV1. Even if AV1 has the same defect, using the CPU time you save by using 8 bit to do more motion estimation and other computations is going to save more space than choosing 10bit would. If there were a difference, it would probably only exist significantly at the highest levels of motion estimation -- which most people do not use. The banding is best dealt with by a filter in the player. `mpv --deband`

@Hogoledo If you wish to learn ins and outs about AV1 codec, I recommend googling "AV1 subreddit" and following links from there.

I would literally pay for someone to seed this torrent :(

@Montec would it be possible for you to seed this again? I've been stuck at 0.29% for weeks. I promise I'll seed into eternity if it ever completes.