Submitted by admin on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 20:31
Suddenly, videos in Firefox with Flash work again. Don't ask me why, I didn't do jack shit. My only guess is somebody was messing around with .htaccess files above my shared hosting's directory, and thus something that messed things up got inherited. I might need a VPS if this happens again...
Submitted by admin on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 16:22
This series is one of those series where I don't skip the OP and the ED. The OP is fantastic, Fujiko runs around completely naked, and the song is terrific. The ED is also awesome, you never get to see the other side of Fujiko!
And this series is total awesome. Forget all the old Lupin III shows where Lupin III was a bumblehead, yes, especially in Castle of Cagliostro. Here he seems like a proper bored, rich thief, actually intelligent (he was never intelligent before) with the very understandable goal of wanting what he can't have. Mine Fujiko, who used to be a total bitch/useless side character/inconsistently portrayed as actually caring for Lupin in some cases now is consistently portrayed as a mature, somewhat twisted, beautiful woman with an aversion to intimacy. Jigen is just as cool as he always was. Goemon has a FUCKING AWESOME episode on a train where he meets Fujiko (all dressed up innocent-like!)!
You just can't go wrong with this series. This is what Lupin III should have been about all along. Fuck the movies, all respect to Castle of Cagliostro and Episode 0: First Contact, the only two ones really worth watching. Fuck the TV series, Charlie Kohei's voice was horrible in the OP and ED. Just watch this if you want the real Lupin III experience.
Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 07:50
Videos aren't playing in Firefox/Flash, don't know why. I'm working on it. For now use a browser that supports H.264 like Chrome, IE9, or Safari.
EDIT: And I still don't know why. It seems to be due to an anomaly in the way Flash gets the URL of the video file... and probably has something to do with its cache and enabling Clean URLs, because simple HTML5 in IE9 works just fine whatever I do.
Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 14:27
I liked it for a while. Then life came. Meh. I'm busy watching this season's anime, figuring out which shows this season are worth putting up here. So far, Polar Bear Cafe and Fate/Zero are definitely going to stay up here.
Submitted by admin on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 19:24
My CPU has been very busy lately, reencoding the same episode of 1 Litre of Tears over and over again to find better tweaks (and now it's reencoding Densha Otoko). In general, it seems that very small gains can be made from tweaking x264's settings, and the biggest gains are to be made in noise reduction and crf targets. Although I upped the crf from 24 to 23 to get better quality and less macroblocking in certain scenes (especially 12:17 in the 1st episode of 1 Litre of Tears, where there's quite a bit of mosquito noise and slight visible macroblocking). Unexpectedly, reducing the frame rate did not make the videos smaller.
Here's the raw data. Original means:
3 bframes, 3 reframes, no open gop, merange 24, motion estimation: umh, subme: 8, crf 24, tuning: film, Main Profile, 3.1, nr:200. Apparently I really shouldn't use tune: film with JDrama shows.
tweaks size
original 149240
bframes5 146948
bframes7 146823
bframes10 146758
reframes5 148714
reframes7 148224
reframes9 147915
tunedefault 145611
merange32 146892
opengop 149210
nonr 154084
nomixedrefs 150527
hiprofile 153060
rclookahead50 149993
Sadly the minuscule gains in file size were obliterated when I upped the crf to 23. There is no substitute for more bandwidth/data when it comes to improving quality! The filesize/length of show ratio still stands at 100MB per 23 minutes. That works out to around 230MB maximum for the first episode of 1 Litre of Tears, which is 52 minutes long. Current encodes, which resize the video down to 704x400, are well below that mark, so there's room to grow. 848x480 provides a marginal quality improvement, and balloons the file size to around that 230MB mark. I don't think it's worth it.
Submitted by admin on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 05:36
This way of uploading and creating episodes is quite improved compared to before. I only wish the description field would be more tolerating of special characters. Now the question is how to preserve stuff like comments and the like going forward from here?
Oh yeah, that anime that involves Karuta is now finished being encoded/uploaded.
Submitted by admin on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 23:57
Soon after uploading Episode 4, my girlfriend broke up with me :( and you know what Ano Natsu is, it's a fucking love story. Great. Well anyway I decided recently to finish encoding/uploading the damn thing, even though I haven't watched it since then. Whatever.
Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 22:53
Another has been finished encoding/uploading. I marathoned it and found it to be an incredibly awesome and effective (that's rare for me!) horror series. Anybody who hasn't watched it yet really should.
Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 17:59
It seemed that 1 Ltire of Tears had slightly out of sync audio because of a AssumeFPS(30) in the avs. Reencoded, reuploaded. And I watched the first 2 episodes. It really is a sad story. If you think you've got it bad, watch this series.
Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/04/2012 - 18:17
Well ladies and germs, commenting is still disabled since I might be recreating nodes to massage the taxonomy system and content type fields thing into shape (you can't change some fields associated with some content types when there is data in them), which means redeleting and recreating episodes. But I think I've got a working system up and running here. Let's see how this pans out. Monster is uploaded already, let's try mass importing those nodes via CSV.
EDIT: The whole Monster series (74 episodes plus the extra) is up! Hooray for Drupal and its incredible Feeds importer system, although it simply cannot detect duplicate nodes and thus can make quite a mess.
