**Title**: Cowboy Bebop (Season 1)
HEVC 10bit SoftSubbed - 1440 x 1080
Encoded by: EoE
**Source**: [JySzE](https://nyaa.si/view/1492120) (210 GiB)
**Audio**: Japanese - English
**Subtitles**: English [Full - Signs/Songs] (CBM/JySzE) - Italian - English [Dubtitles]
### **V2 Note**: V2 because some episodes got broken during the muxing process, and unfortunately (due to the fact that EoE is a bad encoder), weren't caught before release. These are fixable using [the patch script](https://mega.nz/folder/EphRXbyQ#pwk0BUEBGrOl87kZZ9GkNg).
Because of the goldmine of comments on the original release, I'm leaving it up (but hidden), [here](https://nyaa.si/view/1524120)
**Original Note**: Did someone say ***BLOAT***? Yeah I kind of threw shit at the wall and let this have crf 18. Worked mostly fine for the majority of episodes, except for a couple which ended up absolutely massive that were redone with crf 19 for a minor filesize reduction. All episodes other than 23 were encoded with the same [script](https://github.com/End-of-Eternity/Encoding-Projects/blob/master/Cowboy%20Bebop/Bebop.vpy), which has commented explanations throughout, but the general gist of it is using a strong cmde + bilateral as a prefilter to bm3d, followed by a weaker cmde merged back into the bm3d clip using an adg based brightness mask. I only added grain with placebo.Deband as I liked the effect more than adaptive_grain here, plus it compresses minorly better. Episode 23 was encoded using a [custom script](https://github.com/End-of-Eternity/Encoding-Projects/blob/master/Cowboy%20Bebop/Bebop_23.vpy) which is far too complex to explain here, and therefore ~~will have a dedicated blog post soon (probably tonight)~~ you can read about it [on my blog](https://blog.eoe.codes/my%20vapoursynth%20scripts/2022/05/06/cowboy-bebop-S01E23.html) (About 12 hours late but nvm). I will also post some comparison frames on slow pics and leave a link here later. Project was fun, should really have done this sooner. Cheers, EoE
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> some episodes got broken during the muxing process, and unfortunately (due to the fact that EoE is a bad encoder)
Everyone makes mistakes (well, I don't because I'm the definition of perfect. My updated versions are always purposed), but I think it's very humble of you to admit your own limitations
Don't mind me, I just wanted to contribute by starting to replace the lost comments with new, better ones
A good HD mini release for this series!? Finally! I had done multiple comparisons between different 1080p HD mini releases versus CBM and Fussoir's old 720p encodes a long while back and none of them were a better option compared to those two 720p releases. Example - [CBM 720p vs DB 1080p] - https://slow.pics/c/UZgzDmsZ
[CBM 720p vs Judas 1080p v2] - https://slow.pics/c/3Tey8Jle
Great work! Thanks for the release.
@DonCanjas the worst part was that I already knew about the issue and thought I'd fixed it, but I think that when collating all the epiodes together, I accidentally used an older version. Lucky that it's technically less than a MiB patch.
@DoktorWeiss eventually I'll make a comp with lots of other releases, but I got distracted by other work and forgot. Will do eventually. The comps you posted there look impressive though.
avoid this
the audio here is really fucked
it's both too quiet and a poor downsampling was done on the 5.1 audio so you can no longer hear things that were originally clearly heard like the burner and Spike's punches and kicks at around 02:55 (it's a recurring problem in every other episode btw)
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