UnrealQuakie: the quality its great on my monitor with no issue but my god that red hair one is horrendous.
phaolo: It looks fine to me overall..
But I can't imagine what upscale quality your BD player manages to obtain O_o
I'm usually not very fond of (simple) upscaling as it greatly increases the source size just to apply some kind of anti-aliasing that software could obtain anyway while playing.
eRe4s3r: What are your encoding and ripping settings specifically? What is the DVD format (NTSC/PAL)
Did you apply IVTC?
Did you resize only with
Spline36 ?
Is your encoder x264 10bit?
What is CF or bitrate? CF 16-19 and Bitrate 3000-4000 is optimal
If none of the above questions make any sense to you then ripping Anime is gonna be a really hard first entry into the field of DVD ripping. But if you are serious, you should get the tools I list and learn them by trial and error.
Generally speaking, you wanna start with a full ripped 1 file MPEG2 source file on your HDD, it needs to be the full MPEG2 bitrate, lossless 1:1 , make sure to apply IVTC if needed and check for interlace during RIP, otherwise the "source" file will loot really strange. I'd wager your ripping tool did not do this based on the screenshots. Make sure your ripping tool knows what a NTSC and PAL source is.
You want to use
x264 to encode it in 264 in 2 pass 10bit with CF 16 to 19 and bitrate around 3500
You want to use
AVS to resize with Spline36
Now to be honest, I don't specifically know which tool to use to really "rip" a DVD nowadays, I'd use anyDVD mainly because I am lazy nowadays. But nothing beats a custom x264 encoding and resizing with AVS, getting those tools to work right is a science, but once you got it.. well, then you got it, and more rips are just copy paste and changing a bat file...
Blurays like nearly every other hardware use a rescaling chip, some offshoot of Spline36 and probably even content aware stuff. You can achieve the same, it's just more complicated, most "automated" ripping tools will never allow you to get the quality you want with Anime.
The 3 primary points to look at for IQ with anime
IVTC YES/NO | NTSC or PAL
10bit, 2 pass, CF16-19 x264 encode
Resize with
Spline36 ps.: If you want to skip all that, and just watch the MPEG2 source like your bluray player does it, you should look into MPC HC + MADVR and look into the upscaling settings for MadVR specifically. (it's got nothing to do with THAT VR) with the correct settings your anime can look tremendous, and MadVR does have Spline upscaling. It's really performance heavy though
I love this program and seems to rip my blu rays and some dvd's fine but I can't change the ripping process it's just a one click start kind of thing. but maybe you know of something else that does not lose filesize and quality but increases it for some things like this problem? all my stuff is from canada so ntsc.
I am going to look into that thing you are talking about madVR for mpc hc, My pc is an 8core 1800x amd with 32gb ram with a gtx 1080 so I am solid for handling anything thrown at it for a long long whille. if you know of any download links for getting this thing cause I never have luck getting to find this stuff that would be great.
