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Small rant, on other fansubbers...and a plea for a new project.

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Greylopht:
Slow is not the problem.   Seeding for 4 days after grabing seven episodes and then tossing them at several PC's to play them and having the same codec problem, is just a bit out there.   I did toss it at a Pentium 4 3 gig machine.  (my friends big honking gaming machine)  And with CoreAVC it played ok.  Little bit of artifacts here and there.  But it was using over 60% CPU power.  Wich is ALLOT!  On my 1.1 Athalon it barely plays and it is at 100% CPU usage.  Fresh XP SP2 install Core AVC and media player classic.  basically as light as the system is, it should play fine.  The H264 codec is way way bloated.  Not even my Mac likes it.  I am woring now.  ( I just extracted the video from the MKV) and am going to poke at it in a converter and see what the deal is.

Blue Mage:
I seriously don't think you've got your codecs set up correctly. My 1.5 GHz machine plays any h264 just fine. CPU usage peaks at 30% and not a single artifact. I've never seen the problem you're describing.

You might want to go check out some of the codec packs (CCCP comes to mind) or other codec schemes (as in Froth-Bite's). MPC generally plays these files just fine. Hell, with the right codecs, WMP will play them just fine too.

Greylopht:
Well I tried the Froth bite codec pack also. (slight improvement) The video is just a bit to large.  1240x780  Or something.  Cant rember.  At 25FPS, that will make many machines buck on a meere 1.1 gig processor.  (especially with the compression set to uber hard core like a 200M or less file size and the HDTV little bits and bobs thrown in.  )  Nedless to say, the Kat (who will remain namelss and who I work with, and whos honking gameing machine I borrowed)  Did the here.  Give this copy a try.  (nother group that I had not heard of before but one to look out for)  And viola, plays nicely on any of my machines.   As for the old files, they have gone the way the files of lore have gone.   Straight to the rubbish bin.  As for the copy I got from him.  Played very nicely.  (standard Xvid deal)  no issues. 

As for the series, well I think they could have done more.  But I havent read the Manga, shame it ends at Ep 11, the art is very nice.   Very -Bones- Ish.  Anyways, I think that is enough on this thread. 

PS,  I think it was the HDTV part that they were using that was the thorn in my side.  I loged into the groups IRC channel and asked, and many had the same problem.  Some of them using larger machines.   YMMV but I think simple basic direct is always the easiest approach.

gumbaloom:
Whilst super hi-res encodes are nice not everyone is capable of running em. My machine is correctly configured for h264 but i'm pretty sure it'd struggle with the 1280x encodes.

If you want to do 1280x encodes you should at least make a bog standard 640x360 xvid encode which anybody and his dog can run :E

-gumbaloom

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