Joshiraku VS saikou

- <https://github.com/Kaleido-subs/Joshiraku>

Regarding 'why' AV1 and other codecs like VP8/VP9 or VVC haven't really been used:

1. Many of the private trackers have fairly strict rules in terms of standards (e.g., due to lack of hardware support, perceived differences in quality, etc., many don't allow <4K HEVC encodes at all, except in edge cases like when a streaming platform releases a new show in HEVC-only), so individual encoders and groups aren't always free to use whatever codecs they please.

2. Many seem to find x264 easier to tune for certain types of media than x265, and even more so compared to AV1 and others.

3. Many seem to believe that insert codec tends to produce worse results in certain circumstances or for certain content, so they will stick with x265 (or even x264 for the same reasons)

4. Many find that, to truly achieve the same picture quality produced by x265, compression ratios often end up much worse than people claim, and thus the significant slow-down in encoding speed and loss of hardware support is not worth the minor reductions in size.

#4 is likely the most common reason, as it was/is the same with those who prefer x264 over x265; HEVC video is definitely not "half the size" if you want it to look comparably good. And so, especially in the past with older hardware, it simply wasn't worth the tradeoffs; it's worth remembering that, in the case of piracy groups which distribute over P2P networks, no one is paying a AWS exorbitant amounts of money per terabyte of data transferred.

These sites run off of 'free' bandwidth provided by users and cheap unmetered servers from companies like Hetzner, OVH, LeaseWeb, etc -- saving 10-30% in bandwidth often is not worth it at the expense of doubling your encode times (or significantly worse than doubling, in the case of AV1 and VVC) and alienating the people watching on older hardware.

Saikou(kinda of a fork of aniyomi but with better IU) for manag and anime**

You can download it here https://github.com/saikou-app/saikou

you can use this or this

It does work with MAL. And always check the GitHub page of the developer for downloading or updating the app

Same with me, could be maintenance, could be a shutdown. I went on their GitHub forum and there are reports of the same thing happening to other people to which have no responses. We'll have to be patient

Try Saikou app instead.