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General Forum / Re: Video on History of Fansubbing starring Tofusensei on ifc.com~!

« on: April 03, 2006, 01:07:23 pm »

it's always fun too see faces behind these projects.

too bad episodes are so short. it's interesting, but hard to get much depth in such short time.

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Galaxy Express 999!!!

« on: April 03, 2006, 08:51:48 am »

like what in the world would be more important? 

you've been out with girls again? what would maetel think about that? you rather be out with other girls than subbing meeteru...huh.  sure... smile all you will - while you still can.

do you hear *whap whap whap* from outside the house?

yes, the chopper should be right about there now. black suited men are there to get you. they'll take you away and make it sure that you don't have anything more important to do than subbing adventures of tetsuro and meeteru.

day in day out that's all you gonna do! 


we might still call em off if you're a good boy. you know what we want.

we can do other things than be wuzzies and cry "please masakari sub ge999, plz!  " we decided to take action and stop crying like babies. now it's you who either sub it or cry and sub it. what do you think? what you gonna choose?

and don't try any tricks!

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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: An Honest Ransom: No GE until....

« on: March 14, 2006, 12:12:45 am »

Thank you Mr. Dragon! Good looking theme.

Don't worry Masakari. Maetel was just there, i checked.

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Galaxy Express 999!!!

« on: March 13, 2006, 11:48:14 pm »

Sure thing. I can process like 2x a week on top of Harlock...

 

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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: Queen Millennia

« on: March 13, 2006, 11:29:24 pm »

Thanks for picking this up. Looks like a great series!

Guys & Gals don't overtax yourselves, but keep it rollin'!

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Galaxy Express 999!!!

« on: March 09, 2006, 12:48:11 am »

Ok..ok. I guess i have to try. 

Just keep the episodes coming, though.

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Galaxy Express 999!!!

« on: March 08, 2006, 11:32:18 am »

Awesome!!!

Thank you thank you thank you!!!
Im going to fetch it right now.

Now if some manga publisher would translate the original comic series, then everything would be perfect.  Recently I browsed few books of original GE999 manga and it seems really interesting. No hope i could ever learn to understand those kanjis though.

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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: A PETITION FOR GALAXY EXPRESS 999

« on: January 31, 2006, 07:02:11 am »

Theres a good chance if it is stalled much longer, and the Matsumoto Division makes a name for itself, that you may see this show done with the vigor and care that was given to Tsubasa Chronicle. Geeze I hate that show, what a waste of manpower...

I really hope so.

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Captain Harlock!

« on: October 22, 2005, 11:53:01 am »

i just want to thank you from your work.

good luck for all of you.

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Leeching & Technical Problems / Re: Why h264?

« on: September 08, 2005, 12:28:30 pm »

Code: [Select]

Playing [AonE&F-B&L-E]Space_Symphony_Maetel_-_[DVD]_06_[C5A3D4F1][h.264].mp4.
ISO: Unknown File Type Major Brand: avc1
QuickTime/MOV file format detected.
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MOV track #0: 3100 chunks, 34095 samples
MOV: AVC decoder configuration record atom (46)!
MOV: Found unknown movie atom btrt (20)!
Image size: 704 x 400 (24 bpp)
Display size: 704 x 400
Fourcc: avc1  Codec: ''
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MOV track #1: 2963 chunks, 0 samples
Audio bits: 16  chans: 2  rate: 48000
MOV: Found MPEG4 audio Elementary Stream Descriptor atom (35)!
Fourcc: mp4a
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MOV: longest streams: A: #1 (2963 samples)  V: #0 (34095 samples)
VIDEO:  [avc1]  704x400  24bpp  23.976 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1280x960 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 48000Hz/2ch/s16le...
AF_pre: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 48000Hz/2ch/s16le...
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 704 x 400 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 704x400 => 704x400 Planar YV12
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 173 bits!  29/ 29 49% 11%  1.4% 5 0             
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 173 bits!  53/ 53 49% 10%  1.5% 5 0             
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 173 bits!  72/ 72 56% 10%  1.6% 5 0             
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 59 bits!5  98/ 98 63% 10%  1.7% 5 0             
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 42 bits!4 189/189 61% 10%  1.9% 5 0             
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 19 bits!4 196/196 61% 10%  1.9% 5 0             
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 112 bits! 253/253 64% 10%  2.0% 5 0             
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 54 bits!7 264/264 64% 10%  2.0% 5 0             
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 8 bits!76 396/396 69% 10%  2.0% 6 0             
A:  21.3 V:  20.9 A-V:  0.438 ct: -0.639 501/501 73% 10%  2.0% 72 0             

           ************************************************
           **** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
           ************************************************


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Past L-E Projects / Re: Galaxy Express 999!!!

« on: September 08, 2005, 12:26:43 pm »

First link you posted is one of original series. It's only in japanese.

Second i think is of the same series you own (published by VIZ). It's just Vol.1 with alternate cover, maybe different print thats all. I have these from 1-5 which is just the "Eternal Fantasy" story. It happens all after ending of original manga.

Tetsuro has returned to earth after his first journey and at start of Eternal Fantasy things are not going so good there. Tetsuro has been taken as prisoner by earths rulers. When tetsuro is about to be excecuted Maetel comes in GE 999 to rescue him. There this second journey starts.  Story is bit movie like...simply hurried too much imo. IIRC in Vol.4 they visit planet Grotesca and this Schubert guy. Much that happens in this volume is not seen in the movie, but i think other volumes are almost identical to movie.

IMO longer series like the original would be much better as it could tell happenings on each visited planet/place (and more of them) in depth like you can see in TV-series. 

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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: Space Symphony Maetel

« on: September 08, 2005, 03:17:06 am »

Secondly h264 doesnt need a lot of CPU power. One of our QC'ers is running on a p3 800mhz machine and can play h264 encodes just fine . Oh by the way xvid does kinda need a good CPU too. 1ghz+ recommended but I've known people with p3 600's play xvid fine.

I disagree.

On 1GHz Duron/640Mb/Radeon 9800Pro :

xvid
25-35% cpu usage

h.264
85-99% cpu usage

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Galaxy Express 999!!!

« on: September 08, 2005, 02:43:32 am »

Manga that is translated to english as GE999 is actually a sequel to this series. There are 5 volumes and the storyline matches with animated film Ginga tetsudô Three-Nine: Eternal Fantasy. I think it was pretty odd decision to translate the sequel first. Maybe the original would have been of too much work?

I suppose that the original manga - similar to TV-series - has never been translated to english.


It's really shame as this surely is one of the most (if not the most) loved classic manga series in japan.  (or so i've heard) I would buy these (TV-series and manga) instantly if available outside japan translated/subbed. Im sure many others would love it too...

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Leeching & Technical Problems / Re: Why h264?

« on: September 07, 2005, 02:01:19 am »

In linux i get buggy audio with this file.

Btw. The video quality is great.

[edit]
On further testing i noticed that this format eats CPU power like hell. I guess i can forget watching movies compressed with it on my 1Ghz duron.

Previous episodes encoded with xvid use about 25-35% of my CPU to decode.
All H.264 videos i tried so far get my CPU usage to 85-99%, which might explain choppy audio too.

I guess this might be a good codec for people with 2Ghz+ box or maybe latest G5 Macs. Though id rather waste more of cheap HD space for better quality than invest 500€ to new cpu, mobo and ram. Especially when everything else runs just fine. I built this puter for home media server about a year ago. (i feel bit stupid not anticipating this back then)

Ofcourse (for above reasons) im partial in my opinion that this isn't a best way to go. But none of earlier codec upgrades needed 100% increase in hardware performance to play them smoothly. Encoding has always been CPU heavy stuff, but not decoding. You can even watch most of DivX/Xvid stuff on those little handheld players.

I think many people can't afford buying a new rig every two years.

Here's my system specs:

AMD Duron (Spitfire core) clocked to 1017MHz
640MB of PC-133 SDRAM
ATI　Radeon 9800Pro
400GB+250GB+40GB PATA HDs
running Ubuntu (linux kernel 2.6.10-5-686)

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Galaxy Express 999!!!

« on: June 10, 2005, 01:18:16 am »

...can't wait...trying...