@Simplistic I'm lucky that I have a choice, but I tend to go Mac most of the time. :) As for the mediainfo link, Hastebin is supposed to stick around for 30 days after it's last view. I may switch it or embed it in the description if you and others are having issues though.
I use Don Melton's excellent transcoding tools, specifically [other-transcode](https://github.com/donmelton/other_video_transcoding). His goals are encodes that can't be distinguished from the originals and has recently been working a lot with hardware video encoding. I used to spend boatloads of time hanging around in the Doom9 and VideoHelp forums and crafting Avisynth scripts for my encodes. But it got to a point where I was spending more time doing that than actually enjoying my tv shows and movies. After discovering Don's initial tools about 6 years ago, it helped restore the balance.
For this encode and my previous encode, I decided to use the x265 software encoding option as it may get a little bit better quality at the expense of encoding speed. For example, the Kokoro encode took around 10 hours. For fun, I ran the same encode as a hardware encode this morning using my Windows box/nVidia card and it ending up taking just a little over an hour. I doubt I could tell which encode was which so maybe I'll use the hardware encoder for my next release.
As to the use of ABR, [this](https://github.com/donmelton/other_video_transcoding/wiki/Ratecontrol) explains it a lot better than I can.
@npz, I also couldn't find any specific instances of psy or medium in the github code repository, so I'm guessing that they are being set as defaults when the ABR settings are used.
Seems fine on shows that don't "require" filtering, such as most Japanese Blu-rays. However, most USA Blu-rays suffer from color banding hell, so you still end up needing some sort of filtering. That is if the banding bothers you of course.
@Simplistic -- do you have any examples of Avisynth/Vapoursynth filtering scripts that could be used? I feel like I'm totally out of the game...it's been years.
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