2007-07-30, 23:56 | Link #21 | |
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People have priorities. I earn my money working, but I my priorities, right now, lie elsewhere, and I'm looking forward to upgrade my PC only in a year or so. But right now, hell no. PCs are made to last at least 4 years. I'm not gonna upgrade my PC every year a new piece of software comes out. What are you complaining about? You get a HR h264 encode for 90% of the shows out there. Why do you complain when you're still getting them?
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2007-07-31, 04:32 | Link #22 |
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Use MPlayer, and forget everything else. Arrow Keys for ultrafast seeking of any kind of file. Continuous grabbing (if you keep the "S" key pressed, the player will just grab all frames you're viewing), very useful for grabbing THE frame you want, not the one before or the one before. Miles better than VirtualDub(Mod).
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2007-07-31, 21:29 | Link #24 | |
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First of all, I use Linux so CoreAVC is a no-no. Secondly, CoreAVC isn't free. The only way to get it right now is pirating it, since Core has stopped its distribution. CoreAVC is a wonderful tool, but with CoreCodec being a bitch about its source code I doubt it'll become a massively viable option in the short run.
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The answer definitely wouldn't/shouldn't be processor limitation if you're strictly talking about mkv. We (as in me/the groups I'm involved with) can easily do mkv/xvid releases, but again it's the hardware player group that we end up hearing dissent from. We're looking to satisfy as wide an audience as possible, and avi/xvid just so happens to cover a major chunk of it. I'd like to do mkv/xvid but you'd be hard pressed to find a hardware player that supports mkv, which is a shame. Quote:
h264 itself is another matter entirely. Most groups that offer an h264 release also offer some lesser alternative, so certainly I don't see any reason for there to be any concern there. If your system doesn't play it, either you're not part of the target audience or something is wrong with your decoding setup. I'd wager that most encoders aren't releasing these intending to make people upgrade. Quote:
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2007-08-01, 16:41 | Link #28 | |
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2007-08-01, 20:42 | Link #29 | |
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2007-08-02, 00:03 | Link #32 | |
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I've been told that a computer using CCCP to decode h.264 should have 1.2GHz computing power for smooth operations. If you have a rig that's less than 1.2GHz, you probably have a machine that's going on 6-7+ years old now. Personally, I found the largest reason fansub groups are reluctant to change formats and or containers is simply the tech support issue. I saw the changeover from DivX to XVID and channels were being absolutely flooded with tech support requests. It's probably blunted by the use of CCCP nowadays, but few channels want to have their whole chat flooded with people who don't know how to playback files. |
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2007-08-02, 00:38 | Link #33 |
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The actual people who have issues with playback are the ones that want to play it in their dvds. You know, people that burn stuff to CDs and hope to play em in their large 1020p t.v.
And uh, there's been huge leaps in terms of technology; new advancements that took 3-5 years are now done in 1 to 2 years so expect your rigs to age faster than usual. |
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Blurry SD xvid fansubs upscaled to 1080p? These people need to turn in their HDTV playback license. |
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2007-08-02, 03:17 | Link #36 | |
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Also don't rule out notebooks! They're still selling low-end models with Celeron M 1.4 Ghz CPUs in it. Older model Macs (non-Intel) will also have severe trouble with h264 (unless it's a high spec G5) because the playback libraries weren't quite optimized for non-Intel architecture. There is also the problem of old PCs being "good enough". If a 7 year old system still functions fine for internet and office apps, some people might not be willing to upgrade. Having said that, I'd still prefer newer & better (h264 & MKV) over old (Xvid & AVI) anytime. (Though I suppose I'm a bit biased since my current PC can even play 8 Gigabyte 1080p h264 files fine, so it's not like I have a problem) |
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2007-08-02, 03:24 | Link #37 | |
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EDIT: some people saying AVI does bad quality, check out the Kekkaishi (un licensed and in the Animesuki list) that quality is probably even comparing to MKV, Yoroshiku that is |
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2007-08-02, 03:24 | Link #38 | |
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hopefully I go duo-core for my next laptop or I could fiddle with my dad's desktop and put in 2 quad cores but then again, I don't have a huge monitor, just a 22'' one so yeah but GHDpro, I want your rig |
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