The case of Karakara

Download here! (8-bit)
Download here! (10-bit)

By the way, if you wanna drop a line, go here or #kuukunen at irc.rizon.net.

Scroll down for pictures.

UPDATE: What's with the 10-bit release? How do I play it? / It's broken!!

• Short answer: you can't play it properly, but it's not broken. It seems CoreAVC, ffdshow and DivX all somewhat decode it, but cause artifacts. DivX is supposed to officially support 10-bit, but it doesn't seem to be working for me. So as of this writing, the only way to play (or I should say, decode) it I know of is JM. But if we keep on believing, we might have proper 10-bit decoders very soon!

Why did you release something like this?

• As a challenge. I've done lots of different things in many fansub groups but never translated anything, so I wanted to do this all by myself, save for translation checking. It ended up being a video filtering challenge too.

Why hentai?

• It seemed like a funny idea :P
  Also, I figured no one will complain too much for inaccuracies and lack of quality.

The image quality isn't very good... There's no detail!

• I know. The best source I found for it was a badly treated 144 MB avi (352x240, 31 minutes). So as a fun experiment, I went all-in with the filters and totally overfiltered it. Denoised it all to hell, doubled the resolution, sharpening, colour adjustment, etc, etc. (And yes, the encoded version is 1/3 smaller than the original. Wanted to see how low it can go.)

The translation is wrong! And editing is bad!

• I swear some of their lines just simply make no sense. It's clearly a very small budget show with bad writing. And I didn't care about it that much, so I translated it very literally and edited it quickly.

Pictures!

Here are screenshots from my version and original version. Frames on the left are cropped and upscaled from the original and frames on the right are from my final encode.

You might notice it yourself, but I didn't try to find the frames where the filtering worked the best. I also tried to find the frames where it failed. Usually by totally destroying some actual detail.