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Originally Posted by Daniel Lind
I just wonder... I'm watching Deculture's Zettai Karen Children fansub right now, they're like magic, those encodes, just silly 170 megabytes (704x400, needless to say) but looking as clean as day. Maybe the quality problem is not really in space economy?
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hurr durr herpa derp derf
Compressibility varies from show to show, from episode to episode and from scene to scene. It depends on a lot of factors like sharpness, amount of motion, detail levels etc etc. Some shows (or certain episodes of some shows) can easily be squeezed into 100MB or less per episode and still look good, others require 300+MB even for SD resolutions. Making anime episodes at 704x400 look good at 175mb per episode isn't difficult, it'll work fine for most shows.
The thing is that in many cases the OP/ED has a lot of very high-motion material that is not easily compressible, and cutting this out can save a lot of space, regardless of how well the rest of the show compresses and/or what the target size is.
On another note, this endless whining about the precious ending credits is getting tiresome. The three people who care can obviously read Japanese or the credits would be useless, so why aren't they watching raws? Also, as Doughnuts points out, it has for a long time been quite common to make one lossless encode of the OP/ED and then splice that in for each episode.