So I recently learned how to make hardsubs along with some other video encoding tricks giggle;
I can convert and distribute whatever you guys need and can't find already converted elsewhere. Preferably videos I already have downloaded.
For file format:
I'll convert any Hi10P to HiP because I assume any video player that can't render .ass subtitles also can't handle Hi10P, but I'd rather not convert much 10-bit video just because you don't want to get an updated VLC/MPlayer/Media Player Classic
PS3, 360, smartphones, and probably most other recent devices use .mp4 (not mkv) with x264/aac
.avi with xvid/mp3 is worse yet strangely popular; I assume this means some ancient devices prefer it
For video size:
Source size, usually 720p (1280x720), is of course best for anything that can display it. I can also resize to something like 480p (848x480) or 400p (704x400, the usual size for recent anime hardsubs)
Quote from: bluaki on June 12, 2012, 01:45:36 AM
I'll convert any Hi10P to HiP because I assume any video player that can't render ass subtitles
ftfy
Omg Madoka with hardsubs for my PS3 y/n
xvids are worse encodes than mp4s? never knew that, but oh well. xvids are what typically get used for my xbox/ps3-capable encodes befuddlement
anyway, i don't really remember what you have and which ones i wanted to see sometime soon, but if you do have one i wanna see soon, it'd definitely be cool if you could encode them for me
the kenshin mp4s you've made for me have been a big help hocuspocus;
Quote from: Patsy Stone on June 12, 2012, 06:39:16 AM
ftfy
Despite its name, ASS (Advanced SubStation) is pretty much the best subtitle format ever made.
Quote from: Dovydas on June 12, 2012, 09:40:40 AM
Omg Madoka with hardsubs for my PS3 y/n
I apparently never downloaded Madoka's BD version, so I guess I'll get that first before converting anything
Quote from: Kana Minami on June 12, 2012, 11:58:33 AM
xvids are worse encodes than mp4s? never knew that, but oh well. xvids are what typically get used for my xbox/ps3-capable encodes befuddlement
anyway, i don't really remember what you have and which ones i wanted to see sometime soon, but if you do have one i wanna see soon, it'd definitely be cool if you could encode them for me
the kenshin mp4s you've made for me have been a big help hocuspocus;
MP4 videos' main limitation compared to MKV is that they can't have (decent) softsubs embedded in the file, but the video and audio codecs used in an xbox/ps3-capable MP4 are actually exactly the same as typical MKVs ("typical" being non-10bit and without the lossless flac audio many BD rips have) and just wrapped in a different container.
Xvid, by contrast, is a much older encoding system which I believe almost always has worse filesize:quality ratio than H.264 and is particularly worse with HD
Nearly everything I watch stays saved and I also have a few things I haven't watched yet
[spoiler=ls ~/Videos]
Accel World
Acchi Kocchi
Air
Amagami SS
Angel Beats
Ano Hana
Aoi Hana
Arakawa Under the Bridge
Aria
Azumanga Daioh
Baccano
Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu
Bakemonogatari
Black Rock Shooter
Blood-C
Blue Drop
Blue Submarine No. 6
Boku Ha Tomodachi Ga Sukunai
Boogiepop Phantom
C
Canaan
Candy Boy
Carnival Phantasm
Chaos Head
Chobits
Chrono Crusade
Clannad
Claymore
Code Geass
Cowboy Bebop
Daily Lives of High School Boys
Darker Than Black
Deadman Wonderland
Death Note
Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko
Disgaea
Durarara
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
Eden of the East
ef
Elfen Lied
Fate
Fractale
Fruits Basket
Fullmetal Alchemist
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
Full Metal Panic!
Gosick
Gunslinger Girl
hack
Haibane Renmei
Hayate no Gotoku
Hellsing
Hidan no Aria
Higurashi
Hourou Musuko
Hyouka
Idolmaster
Kaiba
Kamisama no Memochou
Kanon
Katanagatari
Kaze no Stigma
Kill Me Baby
K-ON
Kuragehime
Kyouran Kazoku Nikki
Last Exile
Lucky Star
Lupin
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
Maria-sama ga Miteru
Mawaru Penguindrum
Mayo Chiki
Medaka Box
Minami-ke
Mirai Nikki
Mouretsu Space Pirates
Nabari No Ou
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Nichijou
Nisemonogatari
Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu
Nyarlko
Ookami-san
Ore no Imouto
Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru
Ouran High School Host Club
Outlaw Star
Pani Poni Dash
Paranoia Agent
Persona
Pokemon
Powerpuff Girls Z
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Rinne no Lagrange
Rozen Maiden
Sakamichi no Apollon
Sankarea
Sasameki Koto
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Seitokai Yakuindomo
Sengoku Collection
Senki Zesshou Symphogear
Serial Experiments Lain
Shakugan no Shana
Shingetsutan Tsukihime
Shinryaku! Ika Musume
Sora no Otoshimono
Space Brothers
Steins Gate
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
The World God Only Knows
Tiger and Bunny
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun
Toaru Majutsu no Index
Toaru Majutsu no Index II
Toradora
Trapeze
Trigun
Tsuritama
Usagi Drop
Wagaya no Oinari-sama
Welcome to the NHK
Wolf's Rain
Working!!
Yuru Yuri
Zero no Tsukaima
Zetman
[/spoiler]
The encoding methods I recently learned about are significantly different than what I used for those Kenshin videos. It seems to have better quality control and can make more professional-ish videos. It's pretty much a change from using one video editing utility to separate programs for decoding and encoding each container, video, and audio format.
thank you, bluaki cry;
I would like to ask you to convert Gosick to mp4 for me if its possible to do it within a few days (as i am staying with Kaz and wont have good internet after that)
I thank you in advance.... let me know
Quote from: feyd666 on June 12, 2012, 06:46:07 PM
I would like to ask you to convert Gosick to mp4 for me if its possible to do it within a few days (as i am staying with Kaz and wont have good internet after that)
I thank you in advance.... let me know
What do you plan on playing the videos with? A 360?
I just started a script which is converting every episode in the series with no further interaction from me. It'll probably finish within a day. bassir;
Quote from: bluaki on June 12, 2012, 08:17:20 PM
What do you plan on playing the videos with? A 360?
I just started a script which is converting every episode in the series with no further interaction from me. It'll probably finish within a day. bassir;
either 360 or ps3.... either will be fine. Kaz wants to know which subber it is (i think he wants to know if its victorique).
I dont mind who it is. So you already started converting Gosick? Wow.... mindreader....
Thanks alot for this btw.
Quote from: feyd666 on June 12, 2012, 08:21:19 PM
either 360 or ps3.... either will be fine. Kaz wants to know which subber it is (i think he wants to know if its victorique).
I dont mind who it is. So you already started converting Gosick? Wow.... mindreader....
Thanks alot for this btw.
360 and PS3 use the same format and it's the one I chose to use.
Yes, it's Victorique (720p BD source), which I believe is an alternate name UTW used for releasing Gosick.
I haven't actually checked that these encodes don't have any errors, but they probably should be fine.
Be sure to post the link for me. Thank you so much for this. I cant tell you how much I appreciate it. Ill share the link with Kaz.
actually if its not too much trouble, could you look into Habane Renmei for me? mp4's also?
let me know thanks
When it's done converting, I'll upload Gosick at http://bluaki.dyndns.org/Gosick/
As of this post there's one episode uploaded. Feel free to try it and tell me if there's serious problems like desynced audio, skips, parts with a bad quality picture, etc. The other videos for this series will all be about the same file size, which will total about 4.7GB for all 24 episodes.
I even made the script put the filenames in that fancy typical format giggle;
Quote from: feyd666 on June 13, 2012, 12:44:26 AM
actually if its not too much trouble, could you look into Habane Renmei for me? mp4's also?
let me know thanks
I'll start this and Madoka after Gosick is done.
you are the BEST!!!! thank you and i look forward to getting this soon
the only reason i enjoyed reading this thread was because i learned there is a file format called ASS
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.
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. wrench;
Quote from: bluaki on June 14, 2012, 11:25:11 AM
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!
I surprised myself by noticing a quality difference at all between the two groups' videos n_n
Quote from: Kana Minami on June 14, 2012, 11:39:55 AM
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.
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.
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. happydood;
Quote from: Kana Minami on June 16, 2012, 09:16:29 PM
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. happydood;
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?
Quote from: bluaki on June 17, 2012, 01:07:59 PM
By the way, did John download all of both Gosick and Haibane?
Yes i did, and i really appreciate what you did!
thanks again
Madoka is converting to http://bluaki.dyndns.org/Madoka/
i think there might be an oddity with episode four's audio for madoka goowan
Quote from: Dovydas on June 19, 2012, 03:16:35 PM
i think there might be an oddity with episode four's audio for madoka goowan
Maybe I should have read the comments (http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=274473) 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.
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?
delete kenshin
[spoiler]im about to finish kaiba[/spoiler]
delete geass r2
Quote from: bluaki on June 21, 2012, 04:41:22 AM
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?
Ive got gosick and haibane and shared gosick with Kaz, Kaz and I have all of rurouni, so thats that.
Im sure Kaz will say that too
HEY BLU
would you be willing to do Toradora xvid or mp4 for me??? i really wanna watch it and i'm pretty much out of things to watch on my tv, all i have left is stuff for computer watching, so i'd really like some xvid/mp4s of this particular series
Apparently the batch of toradora I have saved right now is only 480p (still CoalGirls/mkv)
Would you prefer 720p? It might take longer because of redownloading
yes i would def prefer the 720, and no hurry at all, i can wait as long as it takes
thank you blu!!!
I have toradora mp4 720 p. But idk how good they are
Its nemdigger i think
http://bluaki.usr.sh/anime/Toradora/
Converting anime with ordered chapters (separated OP/ED into separate files) was... interesting. I'd rather not go through that trouble again; pasting together the audio from separate files takes quite a bit of extra scripting, especially when the episodes are inconsistent about when the songs start and a few episodes omit the ED.
also the process was rather error-prone, especially with audio timing, so a few episodes might have problems idk
and it looks like there already is an obvious problem with those files: episodes 1 and 2 were twice as large as they should be because the tracks were added twice or something like that
so I just reuploaded those two n_u
oh i'm sorry it was problematic blu :(
but thank you very much!!!
Do not blame you. Blame Coalgirls.