UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

[Hanners]

Worth noting that it looks like the previously posted screenshots in this thread have significant colour and potential other issues introduced by VLC. I'm dashing into meetings right now, but here's one quick shot taken directly from our Blu-ray for comparison...

 

[Professor Who]

What's banding please?

https://imgur.com/a/Q6X6dbm

Look here. See the extra shades of colour where there shouldn’t be?

See this example? That’s banding. Going between gradients producing an artifact.

That’s the best I can explain it. An expert like mp3dom would probably be the best to ask...

 

[Lambadelta]

Hold your horses on the Picture Quality on Kizniver.

We're going over it on the discord, and have found the fact lemon took screenshots in VLC caused most of the quality issues.

(we're comparing to shots from AoA vs MPC taken AL shots atm)

 

[Professor Who]

Worth noting that it looks like the previously posted screenshots in this thread have significant colour and potential other issues introduced by VLC. I'm dashing into meetings right now, but here's one quick shot taken directly from our Blu-ray for comparison...

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That’s good news. VLC is notorious for introducing slight artifacting and altering the colours a bit.

If there was handing there to begin with, it’s made worse. If it wasn’t there, then it may be a side effect of VLC. Unless we get more clean captures like what Hanners has provided, we’ll never know if it’s @Anime France’s fault, or VLC’s.

 

[IncendiaryLemon]

Here are the same screenshots, this time taken in MPC-HC



Also a mouse-over comparison between the two screenshots

 

[-Danielle-]

Thanks Professor, think I get what you mean. Makes me wonder if I've ever come across any and not even realised!

 

[Professor Who]

Much improved! There’s still a tiny bit of banding, but most people won’t notice. It’s very subtle and barely an issue. Overall, very good.

 

[IncendiaryLemon]

Much improved! There’s still a tiny bit of banding, but most people won’t notice. It’s very subtle and barely an issue. Overall, very good.

My bad, I'll have to not use VLC in future. I'm honestly clueless about these sorts of things haha.

 

[Lambadelta]

I think we need to ban VLC for screenshots.

 

[Professor Who]

My bad, I'll have to not use VLC in future. I'm honestly clueless about these sorts of things haha.

It’s okay. VLC is fine for personal use, but not optimal for screenshots.

 

[Patient-X]

Thanks Professor, think I get what you mean. Makes me wonder if I've ever come across any and not even realised!

If you've not noticed it before that's good, once you see it you'll never not notice it again

 

[D1tchd1gger]

Thanks Professor, think I get what you mean. Makes me wonder if I've ever come across any and not even realised!

The one show I've noticed it the most on is Steins;Gate (on Blu-Ray) and Steins;Gate 0 (Funimation streaming), especially on close up of faces.

 

[Scavenger]

VLC has some usefulness as a free Blu-ray player with menu support, because it can run MakeMKV in the background for on the fly decryption.

VLC + OpenGL renderer is not bad for menu screenshots, provided printscreen + MS Paint is used. For regular screenshots I used to prefer madVR v.0.92.2 on MPC-HC, but I'm switching over to DGAVCIndex.

 

[thedoctor2016]

Hold your horses on the Picture Quality on Kizniver.

We're going over it on the discord, and have found the fact lemon took screenshots in VLC caused most of the quality issues.

(we're comparing to shots from AoA vs MPC taken AL shots atm)

I mean if people comparing are this damn when looks at Rezero

 

[IncendiaryLemon]

VLC has some usefulness as a free Blu-ray player with menu support, because it can run MakeMKV in the background for on the fly decryption.

How do you go about this, out of interest?

 

[Scavenger]

How do you go about this, out of interest?

Go to the MakeMKV directory, copy 'libmmbd.dll' twice to the VLC directory. Rename to 'libaacs.dll' and 'libbdplus.dll'.

 

[Robbl]

I'd recommend everyone to use a proper player like MPV but that has no BD playback support

 

[Lambadelta]

I'm using mpc-qt at the moment. I can't stand how MPV looks.

 

[IncendiaryLemon]

Go to the MakeMKV directory, copy 'libmmbd.dll' twice to the VLC directory. Rename to 'libaacs.dll' and 'libbdplus.dll'.

Hmm, I can't seem to get it to work myself.

 

[Scavenger]

Hmm, I can't seem to get it to work myself.

If you're using 64-bit VLC, use libmmbd64.dll instead.