Ok. Here we go.
In the past groups such as Live-Evl have provided some of the best translation as well as hastle free anime out there. None of this, you need this codec, and that codec, and then these filters to play them. Even my Macintosh using VLC plays things cleanly, and without a glitch. Hell even my media PC wich is a meere 850MHZ athalon runnin XP, VLC and a meere 32 meg graphics card plays things very nicely.
Now here is the problem. There is a fansub group out there using a new codec. FFdshow (that is the codec) to be exact that is a complete pig on processor power/memory/video card capabilitys. Now why they do this. (Do they have there parents pocket books in hand all the time?) I do not know. But I can even toss old wolfs rain files into my 500 MHZ Pentium III machine in my bedroom and play tose peechy keen. The point here. Yes there is a POINT.
(side note, Macintosh with anything will not play the FFdshow mkv files cleanly period. I know I burned a DVD with the files, then ran down to a friends house and tried them off his hard drive after copying them, using a program called Mplayer, we got no audio and the video was just as choppy and unwatchable as on my 800 duel processor Mac that is now 4 years old. The outcome on VLC was just as horrid.)
The point is, everyone needs to see what is out there before they buy it. I mean why spend 200 bucks on a boxed set of anime you know nothing about. But also to allow others to be able to preview what is out there. (what live-evil does and as well a great many others that I should mention but you all know who they are.) The anime community is a community. And there for if you have a 500 MHZ pentium III ya should be able to watch the same anime as someone with a liquid cooled 3 GHZ machine, no? In all fairness I think it should be this way. I mean there is a anime I am watching now. (name witheld) That plays just fine on my small media machine in my bedroom, and it is just coming out NOW (and that machine IS a 500 MHZ pentium III with a meere 256 megs of ram and a 32 meg graphics card) . I dont see the reason for fancy codecs and the like. I mean not all of us can afford uber huge machines. If we have space constraints there is always CD/DVD's to burn correct? A at a fair moricum because, face it do we all really need 3ghz+machines? Not really. A 1.5 gig machine can normaly get even a advanced user by with little effort. (We are not talking about gamers here, they need to much too late
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But at the end of all of this. I would like to see a reliable fan sub group, (that is you, the live-evil group one of the best i have found out there) To take over the Juuousei subbing. Because I know it will be 1) quality 2) proper translation 3) it will not have to be played on ultimate end electronics. and most of all 4) Your work has been exemplary in the past.
I think that all sums it up. Sorry bout the rant but I am at wits end. I have tried everything to get this to work on the machines I have. And I am sure there are others out there like me that feel that. A little larger file, for allot less hastle with hardware and codecs, means allot more as to loyality to fansub groups.
Thank You.
~Grey
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