The formats of our releases

November 19, 2011

The formats of our releases

First the good news, before i get really heavy, depressing and rather pissed:

Zalis mailed the script for 35 to me on Wednesday and I’m about to get onto QC’ing it

Now for an abrupt tone-shift:

I jsut want to make this as clear as i possibly can, as we’ve had at least three different people ask about it. To be honest, i can’t believe that I’m actually clarifying how we release as it’s really not hard to understand (plus zalis was doing it EXACTLY the same way while subbing splash), and it’s probable that it’s only a dozen or so ejits morons lesser-than-bright people who can’t get their head around it, but here I am in the hope it’ll stop the aforementioned people from asking stupid questions.

We will continue release as we are doing so currently:

• Torrent (which Zalis starts then a few friends from the precure community help seed it)
• Direct Download Link (DDL, provided to us by CureGecko, and on occasion by Elizara if she’s feeling generous and gives me one when she catches me on IRC)
• Presence on the [PreCure]AllStars XDCC bot in #precure@irc.rizon.net (when Rika_chama notices there’s been a release and puts it on there)

Did anyone notice a method that wasn’t listed there?

Yes, the method I’m talking about is Streaming, and it’s not happening, EVER.

and by that i mean:

WE ARE NOT UPLOADING OUR RELEASES TO ANY FORM OF STREAMING SITE, AT ALL, FOR ANY REASON, EVER, EVEN IF YOU ASK.

and by asking I mean even if you ask us were you can find one already up, and the answer is: we don’t know because they shouldn’t be there

In order to stream we’d need to re-encode the video, which we’re not going to do for the reason that zalis mentioned in a comment to one of said people:

No. We’re not re-encoding these to hardcode the subs or reduce the quality to shitty streaming levels. Google “bittorrent client” and “cccp”, download and install those programs.

Basically he’s saying that in order to be put onto a streaming site it’d need re-encoding into a hardsub, and it’s resolution reduced, which defeats the object of what we’re trying to do in terms of providing a DVD-quality softsub, he’s also referring to my other post about how to play our releases.

Another thing he refers to is a “Bittorrent Client” which you require if you want to download are releases using the Torrent method. (I recommend µTorrent)

If you can’t get your head around that, just use the DDL.

Regardless of which download method you choose you’ll still need to follow the playback instructions in the other post.
If you try and use the argument that your computer isn’t powerful enough: i call BS, as I’ve got a 1.6Ghz + 1GB netbook that will happily run 720p video using the CCCP (and the video in question was one of over-time’s Kamen Rider OOO softsubs), and i seriously doubt anyone is running anything much less than that these days. We aren’t doing HD res so if you have those specs you should be able to play then no problems.
If you try and use the lack-of-space argument, it’s only people with massive HDDs like me who can archive anime, most others DL, watch then delete, and if you haven’t got ~300MB of free space on your computer your OS shouldn’t be able to run. doing it that way really isn’t that different to streaming and you’re not limited to how many minutes you can watch a day, and you need not wait for buffering.

My main argument against streaming is what the streaming sites are actually doing: They are making profit though averts by showing our work, which we do and distribute for free, as the bait. We are doing this out of the good of our hearts, and people are making money off of that, and I feel sad that folks can’t be bothered to set up their computer correctly or seek out the groups directly. I did however do a jump for joy when megavideo died as that cuts off one host.

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Zalis: I concur with what ForceGaia has said. As far as system requirements for playing these videos go… I (still) watch anime on a ~7-year-old 1-core P4 @ 3Ghz with 512 MB RAM via a ~16″ CRT @ 1024×768.  While it struggles with a lot of 720p videos, and 1080p is out of the question, it’s still more than enough to play low-res h264/.mkv releases like PCSS’ YPC5 and Splash Star files. Given that I use very simple karaoke effects and no complex typesetting (not that PC has walls of text anyway), the odds that you cannot play these files are quite slim.

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