hardsubs and video conversion

[bluaki]

Gosick is all uploaded and Haibane is converting now to http://bluaki.dyndns.org/Haibane/

I thought before that Coalgirls was the only group that released a Madoka blu-ray batch, but when downloading the series I saw one by WhyNot too. I decided to get both and compare them before converting. I think that WhyNot is quite a bit better; the wording in general both flows better and is more natural while Coalgirls tends to use excessively literal and direct translations to a point that often makes less sense.

Though my conversion will take this difference away, Coalgirls is also almost twice the filesize of WhyNot even though the perceived image quality, to me, seems better (with sharper lines) in the WhyNot videos. I'll try out a few combinations of settings for converting this without ruining that quality nor producing an excessively large video.

[Samus Aran]

WhyNot has turned out to be a subber I've really trusted. They're still very new, but they've been consistently great so far. They do encode to pretty large file sizes usually, but it's worth it if you ask me. Their BRS was a lot better than Commie's and I also like their Apollon a bit more.

Anyway, good to hear Blu.

[TooB]

Gosick is all uploaded and Haibane is converting now to http://bluaki.dyndns.org/Haibane/

Thank you so much! You are a generous samaritan!
I thank you oncce more!

[bluaki]

I surprised myself by noticing a quality difference at all between the two groups' videos

WhyNot has turned out to be a subber I've really trusted. They're still very new, but they've been consistently great so far. They do encode to pretty large file sizes usually, but it's worth it if you ask me. Their BRS was a lot better than Commie's and I also like their Apollon a bit more.

I forget why, but I actually chose Commie for BRS and Apollon even though I usually prefer WhyNot.

Their filesizes seem about the same as most other recent groups: average ~300MB for single 720p TV episodes among the series I've downloaded from them. This Madoka batch is the only BD release I have from them and it's more like 400MB average, which is nowhere near Coalgirls's 700MB average Madoka episode size.

[Samus Aran]

Their Apollon episode file sizes have exceeded like 500mb, that's pretty much why I mentioned large file sizes. But their BRS episodes were pretty typical file sizes, yeah.

[Samus Aran]

Hey Blooper, what's the release you have for the two ef series? I might want those encoded into mp4 for my Xbox/PS3 sometime.

[bluaki]

Hey Blooper, what's the release you have for the two ef series? I might want those encoded into mp4 for my Xbox/PS3 sometime.

They're both Menclave, with memories as avi and melodies as 480p MKV.

I apparently have both of those saved alongside a 1080p release with the same subtitles for some reason, though I don't know how to convert releases that use ordered chapters (OP/ED being saved as a separate video file instead of included in each episode)

It doesn't look like the AVI release I got is still available, so it's now uploading to: http://bluaki.dyndns.org/ef/
I'll convert melodies later.

By the way, did John download all of both Gosick and Haibane?

[TooB]

By the way, did John download all of both Gosick and Haibane?

Yes i did, and i really appreciate what you did!
thanks again

[bluaki]

Madoka is converting to http://bluaki.dyndns.org/Madoka/

[ME##]

i think there might be an oddity with episode four's audio for madoka

[bluaki]

i think there might be an oddity with episode four's audio for madoka

Maybe I should have read the comments on the page I got this batch from. My conversion simply copied WhyNot's audio.

I'll download episode 4 from some other batch and sync its audio to my video.

[bluaki]

A bit late, but Madoka 04v2 is uploaded now

and it looks like my server computer is running low on disk space. Out of Gosick, Rurouni, Geass 2, ef a tale of memories, and Kaiba, what are you all done downloading that I can remove?

[Nyerp]

delete kenshin

[spoiler]im about to finish kaiba[/spoiler]

[PLEASEHELP1991]

delete geass r2

[Nyerp]

delete geass r2

uh no