delowpass, denoise, aa, deband, regrain

The JPBD is lowpassed with two different types of lowpasses. The normal lowpass. And the other special one that distorts/warps things to a degree where it complelty blurs away particals and sometimes also the start and end bits of lineart. (It also seemingly sometimes differs in strength in different areas of some frames)? In short, it's weird and I was not able to recreate it. Meaning I wasn't able undo it properly.
The chroma on the BD is always weakly lowpassed/blurred, in addition to the typical strong lowpass in complex/high motion scenes. With most of them being the normal lowpass. For the special ones, I mostly used the DSNP luma and the wrongly delowpassed JPBD chroma (being the lesser evil). The rest being cases where the DSNP chroma was actually better than the wrongly delowpassed chroma. There are also some cases where the DSNP luma was so bad that using the wrongly delowpassed JPBD luma was the better move. This sadly doesn't always reliably get rid of the ringing. Mostly because DSNP itself suffers from ringing due to compression or my delowpass simply being wrong.
Other than that, the JPBD is fairly good and boring with not much that can be done. The show seems to be native 1080p. Overall, the encode is not really that different from the BD ignoring the strongly lowpased scenes.
All (currently available) Web streams for E06 have lowpass (like) ringing on the luma plane without any visible blur. For the strongly lowpassed scenes in that episode, I just had to cope with using some dehaloing/deringing after the delowpass.
Looking back at this a month later... Mistakes where made and it could be better.

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Pub: 27 Jan 2026 13:53 UTC

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