My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - S06E12 - Spice Up Your Life [720p, HEVC (H.265, x265), OPUS 2.0]

TL;DR Short description:

My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic - Season 6, Episode 12
Resolution: 1280x720
Video codec: HEVC (x265)
Audio codec: Opus

Subtitles: English, Czech, Italian, Polish, Russian.

On PC: Use VLC or MPC-HC
On Android: Use MX Player, your phone may need a HEVC hardware decoder to get a decent frame decoding rate.

Images extracted from the actual file for quality reference(spoiler alert):


Long description:

The source comes from the iTunes store, taken from yayponies

For a 1080 version, go get kot5nik870 's version, his x265 settings are the same as me as we shared our fine tuning. (Except he does not re-encode the audio stream, which is fine. He also gathers our subtitles!)

I uploaded a HEVC version because no one seamed to give x265 a shot for ponies, I like small files and audio/video quality is very important for me.

I am not a real time uploader, I just encoded to help people save bandwidth!
Here are great real time uploaders I turn to when the episodes air:
goreqw3378
blee071985

And more depending on who is active during the season.
Use that link to see it in real time:
Kickass sorted MLP episodes

The encoder versions are:
libx265 1.9
libopus 1.1.2
Encoded with ffmpeg with those options (the relevant ones):
-vf scale=1280:720 -sws_flags lanczos -c:v libx265 -crf 23.5 -preset slower -c:a libopus -b:a 112k

It was down scaled from 1080 to 720 using the non default lanczos for extra sharpness. x265's default crf 28 is not good enough, there even is a noticeable difference between 25 and 24, 23.5 is quite good for MLP!

Opus is a new audio codec used for example by Youtube, that is sounds good at 96kbps, so I used 112kbps, and I am very sensitive to audio quality.

If you want to talk about codecs leave me a personal message!