Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Series

SavI0r	Episodes	MyAnimeList	TVDB	Source
Season 1	64 (S01E01-S01E64)	Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood	Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood	JySzE, jcdarkbr, Kitsunekko, KAN3D2M
OVA	4 (S00E01-S00E04)	Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Specials	Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVAs	JySzE
Movie	1 (S00E22)	Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos	Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood The Sacred Star of Milos	Arid, stress

Release

A complete Multi Audio release encoded in AV1 and OPUS for optimum size and quality. Files are named to support media servers like Plex using TVDB metadata.

There is unfortunately no imperfect combination of audio and subtitle tracks for English viewers.

Encoding Details:

We rescaled the S00E22 movie, The Sacred Star of Milos, with ArtCNN via VapourSynth and encoded with the experimental settings below. We consider the encoding settings and subsequently this release experimental due to the addition of --enable-tf 2, --spy-rd 1, and most notably --psy-rd 0.7. For the curious, we have determined that any non-zero --psy-rd value used at these fidelity levels leads to a very poor trade-off of additional artifacts, particularly mosquito noise, for arguably minimal gain in fidelity - at least for SVT-AV1-Psy in its current form.

SVT-AV1-Psy 2.3.0-B with Av1an (--photon-noise 2)

--preset 4 --crf 32 --color-primaries 1 --transfer-characteristics 1 --matrix-coefficients 1 --keyint 0 --aq-mode 2 --tune 3 --enable-tf 2 --kf-tf-strength 1 --enable-qm 1 --qm-min 0 --qm-max 15 --variance-octile 7 --variance-boost-strength 3 --enable-dlf 2 --qp-scale-compress-strength 3 --noise-norm-strength 0 --spy-rd 1 --psy-rd 0.7

This project is a production with the goal of the smallest video size with moderate subjective compromises to image quality. This is not the hallmark of AV1, but close enough. This release should only contain changes to the video stream and audio tracks. The subtitle and attachment tracks are usually copied from the noted sources. Timings are not adjusted except in cases of extreme delay as a result of mixing sources. - SavI0r

Comparisons

Season 1

The header above links to a comparison of S01E01 between the source AVC, QAS's HEVC as the closest mini encode, Breeze's AV1, and our resulting AV1. Below are a few comparisons between the source, QAS, and our AV1.

JySzE	QAS	AV1

Movie

The header above links to a comparison of the S00E22 movie, The Sacred Star of Milos, between the JPBD, the same JPBD rescaled, EMBER's HEVC, Breeze's AV1, and our resulting AV1. Below are a couple comparisons between the JPBD and our AV1.

JPBD	AV1

Source

Thanks to the following sources:

• JySzE - S01 + OVAs Video, Audio, Subtitle, Chapter
• jcdarkbr - S01 DE, ES, FR, IT, PT Audio, ES, ES-LA, PT, PT-BR, IT, FR, DE, CZ, DA, NL, FI, EL, HU, ID, MA, NO, PO, RU, SV, TU Subtitle
• Kitsunekko - S01 JA Subtitle
• KAN3D2M - S01 AR Subtitle
• Arid - S00E22 Video, Audio, Subtitle, Chapter
• stress - S00E22 IT Audio, Subtitle

Media Info