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by fledgling otakuokay, I am torrenting ef. The repeated mention of it was like endless drops of water carving down the mountain into sand.
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February 29th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I can’t help it. It keeps coming up. I was certain yesterday that the topic was closed, and what do you know — it wasn’t.
March 1st, 2008 at 7:58 am
this is exactly how I got drawn into Shingu, and Dennou Coil to a lesser extent, so I am not complaining by any means
I have a feeling that ef is probably a bit more hardcore anime in terms of blood, action, fanservice, etc than my usual fare. I am looking forward to it.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I cried my eyes out waiting for your report.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Oh man, the pressure! I have watched half the first episode, which was where the subtitle track crashed on me. It brings VLC down with it every time. I clearly need to find a better fansub, and will download one tonight. Thanks for the kick.
(if you have a specific torrent you recommend, please email me)
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Conclave-Mendoi is the only true sub. It comes in two formats. VLC up and including to 0.8.6e throws artefacts when it decodes H.264 for it, so I used XviD (.avi). It does not crash for me though, just shows blocks in the video. The .avi has hardsubbed video (of course).
April 12th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Finally got around to grabbing the Conclave torrent. Am using XviD as you suggested.
I think, but am not sure, I understand why “of course” the .avi is hardsubbed (assuming you mean that the subtitles arenot a metalayer of data but are actually embedded on the image itself).
And XviD is really just AVI? I didnt know this. i suppose i could google this to educate myself but I find that asking experts is usually more succinct and relevant
April 13th, 2008 at 12:31 am
I’m not an expert, only a user, so my knowledge is very superficial. I know that AVI is a container, it can contain any stream. But for some reason I never encountered it with a subtitle stream. It did come with all sorts of codecs though, not necesserily XviD+MP3 which was typical for a while. I have a video clip in .AVI container where video is encoded in Indeo 5.0, and sound is ADPCM @44.1kHz. Since softsubs were around for a long time in use by Spainish fansubbers, and they just supplied naked .srt files alongside .avi, I think it must be some core limitation in the way .avi works. But perhaps it’s an artefact of tools available.
April 13th, 2008 at 8:08 am
the torrent finished last night - i need to interleave my ef with Ranma now
I want to learn more about various video formats because i’d like to be able to extract video segments from DVD. I am leerythough of dipping my toe into these waters preisely because video is so freakishly complicated. We need and end2end video tool that hides a lot of this crap from the user.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Ripping videos is simple. My typical method for a R1 DVD to iPod is that of a caveman. I simply use ffmpeg.
First, I determine the DVD layout with VLC, get title and chapter numbers.
Second, dump into stream (because ffmpeg cannot read DVD directly):
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile x.vob -chapter 16-21 dvd://5
Additionally, determine where Japanese sound track is by running mplayer once on the x.vob. This is later used in -map.
Third and final step (in this case, Japanese track was 1):
ffmpeg -map 0.0 -map 0.1 -i x.vob -f mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -maxrate 2000k -b 1500k -qmin 3 -qmax 5 -bufsize 32768k -g 300 -acodec aac -ar 44100 -ab 128 -s 320×240 -aspect 4:3 x.mp4
Unfortunately, ffmpeg developers change options from time to time. What used to be kilobits turned into bits, etc. So I have re-read ffmpeg -help periodically and adjust the above.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
this is where i sheepishly mention that I’m not exactly a command line jockey anymore
there wouldnt be a simple windows based thingy would there?
April 13th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Author, this must be a new meaning of the word “simple” of which I was not aware.
April 13th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
BTW, there’s no equation picture again. I just type “2″ as always.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
its a cache thing, so i am told. not sure why it happens. i wont change the number, it will always be “2″ so you can pretty much ignore the picture.