I’m hoping this new one will support HEVC 10-bit. The developer specs mention VP9 Profile 2, so I’d be surprised if HEVC10 didn’t work. If it had enough performance for software AV1 decoding that would be the cherry on top.

People say they suck, but I think they’re quite swift for $100. Even my old 2018 model I gave to someone surprised me at how smooth it still was (I did not install Google services because it drags down responsiveness). Now there’s a model with 4GB RAM, should be solid for the next few years.

Upon further "research" it looks like they're charging $1 per GB of encoded video. 🙂

You could make the argument that people who never wanted to pay in the first place would still pirate, but even if you want to pay, you’re put in a tight spot. For 25 episodes you’re paying more than the price of a 34-disc The Office (US) box set. Amazing value.

Wild that Aniplex manages to make Funimation look like saints

I don’t need fancy packaging just toss all the discs into a random Blu-ray box and sell it for like $30

Ok I gave it a try, there's still artifacting under djpeg (and then I noticed sRGB images still have visible artifacting but less) but it does seem to smooth out the "mosquito noise" more. Interesting. Maybe I have to feed the encoder a 10bit sample.

Google's Jpegli encoder can encode with 10+ bit precision which could theoretically alleviate the issue just as 10 bit helps with video, though I haven't tried the associated decoder yet. When decoding with a typical 8 bit JPEG decoder like that bundled in Chrome, the artifact still occurs.

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