DarkDream High Quality Anime Archive + Future Release Plans

DarkDream787 wrote:

CURRENT PLANS

I cant seem to find any live torrents for The Spectacular Spider-Man. In fact, I don't see many torrents for it at all. Because of that, I think I'll do that show next.

I really want to watch Johnny Quest, and The Real Adventures Of Johnny Quest. After I finish The Spectacular Spider-Man, I will probly encode those two shows. There are torrents for these readily available, so I prioritized Spectacular Spider-Man first.

After the two Johnny Quest series, I have a promise to keep someone, and will be encoding Mobile Suit Gundam Wing after that. I might even do this one before Johnny Quest. It depends on how long Spectacular Spider-Man takes to finish. We'll see when the time comes.

Yay for The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.
Really wished they would release this on BluRay.

Bad Cat is now available for download.
https://blackstaranime.forumotion.com/t571-bad-cat-high-qualityquad-audio-mkv-1080p-blu-ray-rip

Enjoy!

I have Jonny Quest looking pretty good.
https://slow.pics/c/V00MJPW4

The bad news is, in order to get this quality, I have to use special scripts that are slow as hell. It could very well take 2 - 3 days to finish 4 episodes. Meaning its possible all 26 could take up to 21 days for it all to finish. Best case scenario would be around 17 days.

The other issue is, this series is VERY bitrate needy from detail and grain. A CRF 17 test encode came out at 6GB in size which is actually larger than the source m2ts file of 5.10GB. Its also a bit over 25 minutes per episode instead of the usual 22-23 minutes per episode of most things. So this will be a bit larger than usual. I am going to exceed my usual maximum size of 2.95GB and make them about 3.35GB each.

If I'm lucky, these may use a low enough % of CPU per episode that I can run 6 episodes at a time instead of 4, and cut down on the time by several days. I wont know until tomorrow.
If that's not an option, I think what I might do is encode 8 episodes. When they finish, work on something else that will quickly finish, then do another 8 episodes. Then just repeat that until all 26 are finished.

The original Jonny Quest might not get 100% finished until sometime in May if I go that route with the 8 episodes at a time, but at least I will still be able to get other things done and not have nothing else or no use of my computer for up to 3 weeks.


EDIT: It looks like I can run about 5-6 of them at the same time. They also seem to be performing a little faster than the estimate gave, and not one of them should need 3 days at this rate. 2 days or possibly a couple hours more looks like plenty for each set of episodes being encoded.

New best case scenario is about 8-10 days, new worst case scenario is about 12-13 days.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters (1080p) is now available for download.

Enjoy!

Episodes 7-11  of Jonny Quest just finished. I am going to take a slight pause on Jonny Quest, to throw in something else quickly that I just managed to get ahold of recently, so I have an upload to put up for the week. Then I will resume running the rest of the Jonny Quest episodes scripts through the encoder. This in between small upload is a surprise this time, so you will have to wait until its finished to see what it is.

It looks like it will be ready in a few days at this rate.

Demon King Daimao is now available for download.

Enjoy!

Grappler Baki - The Ultimate Fighter is now available for download.

Enjoy!

A V2 release for Grappler Baki with better sounding audio is now available.
Had I noticed the amount of white noise hissing in the audio, I would have fixed that earlier. It wasn't too horrible in the English track, but it was terrible in the Japanese track.

Casshan Robot Hunter OVA (1080p) is now available for download.

Enjoy!

The Princess And The Goblin higher quality re-encode is now available for download.

Enjoy!

Jonny Quest is now available for download.

Enjoy!

Chaotic (1080p) is now available for download.

Enjoy!

Taking a couple days break. I will decide what comes next soon. Most likely Thundarr The Barbarian (1080p) since I owe someone, and they have been patient.

I will be starting work on Thundarr The Barbarian (1080p) this Wednesday.

Thundarr The Barbarian (1080p) is now available for download.

Enjoy!

I want to see if I can get a nice 1080p Death Note release out there. This looks like it may be a complicated time consuming job, so if my jobs keep working me like this, I may have to do something else in the meantime like Justice League cartoon, or something that does not require as much frame by frame work and syncing.
I will play around with episode 1 later tonight, and see what kind of work Death Note will be, before I decide what I will work on next.

DarkDream787 wrote:

CURRENT PLANS

I want to see if I can get a nice 1080p Death Note release out there. This looks like it may be a complicated time consuming job, so if my jobs keep working me like this, I may have to do something else in the meantime like Justice League cartoon, or something that does not require as much frame by frame work and syncing.
I will play around with episode 1 later tonight, and see what kind of work Death Note will be, before I decide what I will work on next.

Still not quite sure about what to do. I think I will do a quick movie just to get something up. I get 2 consecutive days off both jobs this week. I'll get things decided on my couple days off.

DarkDream787 wrote:

DarkDream787 wrote:

CURRENT PLANS

I want to see if I can get a nice 1080p Death Note release out there. This looks like it may be a complicated time consuming job, so if my jobs keep working me like this, I may have to do something else in the meantime like Justice League cartoon, or something that does not require as much frame by frame work and syncing.
I will play around with episode 1 later tonight, and see what kind of work Death Note will be, before I decide what I will work on next.

Still not quite sure about what to do. I think I will do a quick movie just to get something up. I get 2 consecutive days off both jobs this week. I'll get things decided on my couple days off.

The Death Note looks like it will have to wait a bit longer until I can come up with more free time, so that is going to go down my list a tad bit for now. I have many different countries BD's and DVD's to compare and do close examination on. I can tell the frame by frame sync work and subtitle retiming will possibly be time consuming, even after I pick which I feel are the best sources to proceed with.

I'm gonna go ahead and encode some movie called Big Fish & Begonia while I wait for those new Blu-Rays I ordered to come in the mail. Should it finish encoding before they arrive, I will probly encode another movie. Once I get the Blu-Rays in the mail, I will let you know which I choose to work on.

Currently I am considering either encoding Black Bullet, or the original Fate Stay Night series, next.

Big Fish & Begonia (1080p) is now available for download.

Enjoy!

Trinity Seven is currently running through the encoder and should be done within a week or less I estimate. When that is finished and uploaded I will be working on the cartoon show The Herculoids (1080p) Blu-Ray.

Trinity Seven (1080p) is now available for download.

Enjoy!

I upgraded our internet from 400Mbps to 1Gbps connection which approximately almost doubles the upload from about 23Mbps to around 41Mbps according to speedtest. My upload speed is now roughly 4.6 - 4.8MB/s now instead of 2.4 - 2.6MB/s according to torrent client.

I just wish I could get a company with Fiber connection around this area here, so I could get much more upload capability. 1Gbps connection speeds finally came after all these years, so maybe Fiber eventually will as well.

The Promised Neverland (1080p) is now available for download.

Enjoy!

I got pretty nostalgic for Yu-Yu-Hakusho. I played around with episode 1 to see how I could get it and the test script is running now. The preview looks like I can make it pretty nice looking considering the source. After seeing the difference between the Japanese version and the USA release, there's no contest, I pick Japanese source.

From the looks of things, my next plans will be encode Yu-Yu-Hakusho season 1, and or episodes 1-25. I am running 2 test scripts and each one will take about 2 days to finish. When I pick the one I like most, I give it about 36-40 hours per 3-4 episodes to encode this series with the current scripts and quality I have.

It cant use much more than 11-13% of my CPU on average per episode due to the complexity of the scripts, but I did double my ram and get faster RAM not long ago. If it does not go over that much CPU, I may be able to run 7-8 episodes at the same time per 2 days instead of 3-4. We will just have to see how it runs and works out.

It's been a long while since I have done a long series over 52 episodes long, and I think it's about time I finally got to Yu-Yu-Hakusho.

Current plan updates pasted from Discord.


(9/4/2021)

I'm running a final draft script now. It should be done by Monday morning. I have that day off work, so my goal will be get all the discs ripped and prepped for encoding, then get the sync work done. If I finish all that, I should be able to start running it all by Monday night. If not, I'll just get it going around Wednesday night at the latest, if my schedule allows for it.

(9/7/2021)

The script did indeed come out slightly more clear looking and improved detail a tad. I am ripping the discs and setting everything up before I go to work in about 2 hours. I should be able to have everything prepped for script writing and encoding before I go to work.

My next day off from work is 9/9/2021. I will work on all the syncing and scripts then.

(9/14/2021)

I'm gonna take a short nap. When I wake up, I will try and get all of the 1st season scripts done today, and get them running through the encoder by tonight.

(9/17/2021)

First 4 episodes finished. It looks like about 2 and a half days or so per 4 episodes. I could probly push another 2 episodes per 4 days, but I don't want to risk encoder crashing, and having to start some of the episodes over again. I guess that's about 10-12 days or so until season 1 is finished encoding.

I just quality checked the first 4 episodes. I have to admit, the improvement from the finished scripts came out pretty nice looking when compared to the raw source video. That stabilization made a huge difference, and really reduced all that annoying screen bouncing around all over the place constantly. Couldn't get rid of all of it, but most of it is fixed.

(9/21/2021)

Reached the half way point. The first 12 episodes are finished.
It's slow encoding, but these look great to me.