Topic: Initial D 4th Stage comments... - Archive Topic (Locked)

[Cov]

Glad to hear you arent comepletly knackered. I made the foolish mistake of deleting all mine when i got the tokyopop dvds. I immediately had to get back S1 because the dvd were so poor. The rest of the are all right though.

[JC]

Yeah... The biggest pain of them all is losing my documents, has all my order stuff in it, resume... A lot of stuff my gf sent me that I was supposed to keep!

Maybe the drive didn't like the fact that I don't use Windows anymore Too bad for it, not going back!

From what I can tell of the drive, the heads have siezed on the platters, which means that the drive makes a really nasty thunking sound and physically moves...

I can live in hope that the heads will eventually unstick, or just forget it completely and start all over again :/

[Tofusensei]

Join the club, I've had four HDs die in the past six months, totallying 400 gigs of lost data

-Tofu

[JC]

Ouch, much with the sympathy there!

Already lining up my new HDDs, getting them at cost price through my dad's work...

Just not sure how long it'll take them to get into stock here

But I think that 4x 500gig SATA drives should do it, being hotswappable, I can back up and restore easily!

[CooBlueDAB]

Hrm, JC, your downloading the BT files of ID stage 1 right? what codec do you use? I got two different versions of eps 1, and they wont play on anything, even vlc

[JC]

I'll let you know if I can play them when I've downloaded them, as I use Linux now... So I don't know if I'll have codec issues or not

As for windows, I found using the klite codec pack, full pack (About 8meg) played just about anything that I needed, do a google on it, should be able to find a free site hosting it (The official site requires registration or something, and I hate the spam that comes with it, their anti spam policies or not!)

[Cov]

Get hold of a program called Gspot. It will tell you if the codecs you have installed will play it or not. The only things it doesnt recongise are quicktime and real, but it's fairly easy to know when you have those kinda files. Tip though, click the render button for much more accurate diagnosis. If it claims to be able to play and doesnt, you have a codec clash.

[CooBlueDAB]

man I tried all that and the codecs from the encoder's site... it still wont work lol...

[mikala]

coolbluedab> did you try vlc ?

[CooBlueDAB]

yeah, nothing recognizes these files... the only thing I can think of is... that even though the eps are fully downloaded... they won't work until EVERYTHING... is complete, all the other eps and movies.. which sucks because I dont know how to make it dl only one at a time.

[mikala]

hu o.O
you can't open them with vlc ?
did you verify the crc ? or md5sum  ?
or try do download them from a bot ( check the xdcc list bot on http://xdcc.live-evil.org )

[CooBlueDAB]

I read something about verifying, but I cannot understand it
as for the bots lol, you don't serve it anymore...   I guess I will keep trying.

[mikala]

i'm serving all the ID 4th stage  files . ( have a look to  L-E|Parmenion ... )

[JC]

Well... All the files I've tried so far, work absolutely fine (LE, can you please do fansubs of S1, 2 and 3? The quality of these is crap! )

Going to download Stage 4 tomorrow

[chichin0]

I wish they could go back and do the 1st-3rd stages too.  But sadly Tokyopop and their crappy versions are licensed product... So Live-Evil (and pretty much any other fansubbers) won't touch it.  Could you imagine though?  High quality raws and L-E's brilliant subs...  It would be something beautiful to behold....