I need to know which of 3 MediaInfo file specs are the best in quality.

[luigi rovatti]

I figured out with MediaInfo the file specs under "General", "Audio", and "Video" for these 3 files. I cannot, however, determine which is the best in terms of overall quality.

The first file specs is the following:

General
Unique ID : 15862626113378015777333297173295153091 (0xBEF07D9850BAE01CB4BA8111ECA3FC3)
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 392 MiB
Duration : 23 min 21 s
Overall bit rate : 2 348 kb/s
Movie name : S03E01 - New Start
Encoded date : UTC 2021-10-10 12:28:28
Writing application : mkvmerge v58.0.0 ('Supper's Ready') 64-bit
Writing library : libebml v1.4.2 + libmatroska v1.6.4
Cover : Yes
Attachments : cover.jpg / Roboto-Medium.ttf / Roboto-MediumItalic.ttf / arial.ttf / arialbd.ttf / comic.ttf / comicbd.ttf / times.ttf / timesbd.ttf / trebuc.ttf / trebucbd.ttf / verdana.ttf / verdanab.ttf

Video
ID : 3
Format : HEVC
Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile : Main 10@L4@Main
Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC
Duration : 23 min 21 s
Bit rate : 2 184 kb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 10 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.044
Stream size : 365 MiB (93%)
Writing library : x265 3.5+10-82786fccc:[Windows][GCC 10.3.0][64 bit] 10bit
Encoding settings : cpuid=1111039 / frame-threads=2 / numa-pools=8 / wpp / no-pmode / no-pme / no-psnr / no-ssim / log-level=2 / input-csp=1 / input-res=1920x1080 / interlace=0 / total-frames=0 / level-idc=0 / high-tier=1 / uhd-bd=0 / ref=4 / no-allow-non-conformance / repeat-headers / annexb / no-aud / no-eob / no-eos / no-hrd / info / hash=0 / no-temporal-layers / open-gop / min-keyint=23 / keyint=250 / gop-lookahead=0 / bframes=8 / b-adapt=2 / b-pyramid / bframe-bias=0 / rc-lookahead=80 / lookahead-slices=4 / scenecut=40 / hist-scenecut=0 / radl=0 / no-splice / no-intra-refresh / ctu=64 / min-cu-size=8 / no-rect / no-amp / max-tu-size=32 / tu-inter-depth=1 / tu-intra-depth=1 / limit-tu=0 / rdoq-level=2 / dynamic-rd=0.00 / no-ssim-rd / signhide / no-tskip / nr-intra=0 / nr-inter=0 / no-constrained-intra / no-strong-intra-smoothing / max-merge=3 / limit-refs=3 / limit-modes / me=3 / subme=3 / merange=57 / temporal-mvp / no-frame-dup / no-hme / weightp / no-weightb / no-analyze-src-pics / deblock=0:0 / sao / no-sao-non-deblock / rd=4 / selective-sao=4 / no-early-skip / rskip / no-fast-intra / no-tskip-fast / no-cu-lossless / no-b-intra / no-splitrd-skip / rdpenalty=0 / psy-rd=1.00 / psy-rdoq=1.00 / no-rd-refine / no-lossless / cbqpoffs=0 / crqpoffs=0 / rc=crf / crf=19.6 / qcomp=0.60 / qpstep=4 / stats-write=0 / stats-read=0 / ipratio=1.40 / pbratio=1.30 / aq-mode=3 / aq-strength=0.70 / cutree / zone-count=0 / no-strict-cbr / qg-size=32 / no-rc-grain / qpmax=69 / qpmin=0 / no-const-vbv / sar=0 / overscan=0 / videoformat=5 / range=0 / colorprim=2 / transfer=2 / colormatrix=2 / chromaloc=0 / display-window=0 / cll=0,0 / min-luma=0 / max-luma=1023 / log2-max-poc-lsb=8 / vui-timing-info / vui-hrd-info / slices=1 / no-opt-qp-pps / no-opt-ref-list-length-pps / no-multi-pass-opt-rps / scenecut-bias=0.05 / hist-threshold=0.03 / no-opt-cu-delta-qp / no-aq-motion / no-hdr10 / no-hdr10-opt / no-dhdr10-opt / no-idr-recovery-sei / analysis-reuse-level=0 / analysis-save-reuse-level=0 / analysis-load-reuse-level=0 / scale-factor=0 / refine-intra=0 / refine-inter=0 / refine-mv=1 / refine-ctu-distortion=0 / limit-sao / ctu-info=0 / no-lowpass-dct / refine-analysis-type=0 / copy-pic=1 / max-ausize-factor=1.0 / no-dynamic-refine / no-single-sei / no-hevc-aq / no-svt / no-field / qp-adaptation-range=1.00 / scenecut-aware-qp=0conformance-window-offsets / right=0 / bottom=0 / decoder-max-rate=0 / no-vbv-live-multi-pass
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited

Audio
ID : 1
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : A_AAC-2
Duration : 23 min 21 s
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate : 43.066 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 21.4 MiB (5%)
Language : Japanese
Default : Yes
Forced : No

The second is the following:

General
Unique ID : 318850286057618947280306813766945510994 (0xEFE054D4A1595724C25098F2483C9652)
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 280 MiB
Duration : 23 min 21 s
Overall bit rate : 1 675 kb/s
Writing application : Lavf59.3.100
Writing library : Lavf59.3.100
ErrorDetectionType : Per level 1
Attachments : Roboto-Medium.ttf / Roboto-MediumItalic.ttf / arial.ttf / arialbd.ttf / comic.ttf / comicbd.ttf / times.ttf / timesbd.ttf / trebuc.ttf / trebucbd.ttf / verdana.ttf / verdanab.ttf

Video
ID : 1
Format : HEVC
Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile : Main 10@L5@Main
Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC
Duration : 23 min 21 s
Bit rate : 1 510 kb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 10 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.030
Stream size : 252 MiB (90%)
Writing library : x265 3.5+1-f0c1022b6:[Linux][GCC 8.3.0][64 bit] 10bit
Encoding settings : cpuid=1111039 / frame-threads=4 / wpp / no-pmode / no-pme / no-psnr / no-ssim / log-level=2 / input-csp=1 / input-res=1920x1080 / interlace=0 / total-frames=0 / level-idc=0 / high-tier=1 / uhd-bd=0 / ref=6 / no-allow-non-conformance / no-repeat-headers / annexb / no-aud / no-hrd / info / hash=0 / no-temporal-layers / no-open-gop / min-keyint=23 / keyint=250 / gop-lookahead=0 / bframes=8 / b-adapt=2 / b-pyramid / bframe-bias=0 / rc-lookahead=80 / lookahead-slices=6 / scenecut=40 / hist-scenecut=0 / radl=0 / no-splice / no-intra-refresh / ctu=64 / min-cu-size=8 / no-rect / no-amp / max-tu-size=32 / tu-inter-depth=1 / tu-intra-depth=1 / limit-tu=0 / rdoq-level=2 / dynamic-rd=0.00 / no-ssim-rd / signhide / no-tskip / nr-intra=0 / nr-inter=0 / no-constrained-intra / strong-intra-smoothing / max-merge=5 / limit-refs=3 / no-limit-modes / me=3 / subme=4 / merange=57 / temporal-mvp / no-frame-dup / hme / Level / merange / L0,L1,L2=16,32,57 / weightp / weightb / no-analyze-src-pics / deblock=1:-1 / no-sao / no-sao-non-deblock / rd=4 / selective-sao=0 / early-skip / rskip / no-fast-intra / no-tskip-fast / no-cu-lossless / b-intra / no-splitrd-skip / rdpenalty=0 / psy-rd=0.65 / psy-rdoq=1.25 / no-rd-refine / no-lossless / cbqpoffs=-1 / crqpoffs=-1 / rc=crf / crf=21.2 / qcomp=0.60 / qpstep=4 / stats-write=0 / stats-read=0 / ipratio=1.40 / pbratio=1.30 / aq-mode=3 / aq-strength=0.70 / cutree / zone-count=0 / no-strict-cbr / qg-size=32 / no-rc-grain / qpmax=69 / qpmin=0 / no-const-vbv / sar=1 / overscan=0 / videoformat=5 / range=0 / colorprim=2 / transfer=2 / colormatrix=2 / chromaloc=0 / display-window=0 / cll=0,0 / min-luma=0 / max-luma=1023 / log2-max-poc-lsb=8 / vui-timing-info / vui-hrd-info / slices=1 / no-opt-qp-pps / no-opt-ref-list-length-pps / no-multi-pass-opt-rps / scenecut-bias=0.05 / hist-threshold=0.03 / no-opt-cu-delta-qp / no-aq-motion / no-hdr10 / no-hdr10-opt / no-dhdr10-opt / no-idr-recovery-sei / analysis-reuse-level=0 / analysis-save-reuse-level=0 / analysis-load-reuse-level=0 / scale-factor=0 / refine-intra=0 / refine-inter=0 / refine-mv=1 / refine-ctu-distortion=0 / no-limit-sao / ctu-info=0 / no-lowpass-dct / refine-analysis-type=0 / copy-pic=1 / max-ausize-factor=1.0 / no-dynamic-refine / no-single-sei / no-hevc-aq / no-svt / no-field / qp-adaptation-range=1.00 / scenecut-aware-qp=0conformance-window-offsets / right=0 / bottom=0 / decoder-max-rate=0 / no-vbv-live-multi-pass
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : A_AAC-2
Duration : 23 min 21 s
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate : 43.066 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 21.4 MiB (8%)
Language : Japanese
Default : Yes
Forced : No

The third is the following:

General
Unique ID : 125478472670664487601773485594046992595 (0x5E664658967297E1C290EF5DFC3190D3)
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 427 MiB
Duration : 23 min 21 s
Overall bit rate : 2 555 kb/s
Writing application : Lavf57.83.100
Writing library : Lavf57.83.100
ErrorDetectionType : Per level 1
Attachments : Roboto-Medium.ttf / Roboto-MediumItalic.ttf / arial.ttf / arialbd.ttf / comic.ttf / comicbd.ttf / times.ttf / timesbd.ttf / trebuc.ttf / trebucbd.ttf / verdana.ttf / verdanab.ttf

Video
ID : 1
Format : HEVC
Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile : Main@L4@Main
Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC
Duration : 23 min 21 s
Bit rate : 7 993 kb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (23976/1000) FPS
Original frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.161
Stream size : 1.30 GiB
Writing library : Lavc57.107.100 hevc_nvenc
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : A_AAC-2
Duration : 23 min 21 s
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate : 43.066 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 21.4 MiB (5%)
Language : Japanese
Default : Yes
Forced : No

This is very important for me so any help is appreciated. Thank you in advance.

[jagabo]

Encoding specs aren't a realiable indicator of quality.

[rrats]

Third one, but I can't guarantee without the demuxed clips. Or even better, try finding an action scene in that anime, and figure out which video looks the best

[jagabo]

Also, what's your definition of quality? Suppose you have a movie that was shot on grainy film. One person encodes the video retaining all that grain. Watching the encoded video is just like watching the original film. Another person filters the video removing all the grain but manages to keep all the detail without introducing artifacts -- it looks great, just like real life. Which encoded video is higher quality? The one that looks like the original film or the one that looks good? What if you've never seen the original film? What if you have? What if you know the director used very grainy film on purpose because that's the aesthetic he wanted?

[rrats]

I am 100% sure that the OPs videos are digital anime

[Hoser Rob]

Encoding specs aren't a realiable indicator of quality.

What he said. There are always a few members on any forum for whom I would consider disagreeing with a sign of ignorance or stupidity. He's one of them. Besides, he's very right on this. Mediainfo specs don't say what the source is.

[jagabo]

I am 100% sure that the OPs videos are digital anime

My point was that people's perception and definition of "quality" differs. The film grain issue was just one easily understood example of the difficulty in defining the quality of a video. And beyond the definition of quality -- we don't know anything about the provenance of the encoded videos. For all we know some could be from an HD source, some poorly upscaled from an SD source. Some may have been re-encoded many times. The only way to definitively judge the quality is to watch them for yourself.