So then, after many many hours of struggle through the source and the resolution, the widescreen is done. Yay! 🙂
h.264 uses ordered chapters for both 720p and 480p, XviD is the usual complete piece of bitrate wasting trash it always is.
720p for K-On IS a station upscale. However, when played fullscreen on a 1280×720 monitor, a 720p upscale will look better than a 480p upscaled by the media player. However, the reverse is also true in that an upscale will look worse at 480p than one that started as 480p. So, we released both so you can choose.
720p: Mio
480p: is
XviD: moe.
Hooray for WS!!!!
I love it thx
umba lumba bumba thankz
Thanks pals, I was waiting for your release.
Mio is Moe Weeee
Awesome Chihiro!! This is one of the only 3 series I like from this season so of course I’ll DL the 720p files, with my 1440×900 19″LCD this will look great.
“Awesome Chihiro!! This is one of the only 3 series I like from this season so of course I’ll DL the 720p files, with my 1440×900 19″LCD this will look great.”
Looks even better on 32″ Hd-ready tv. 19″ is way too small screen for movies 😛
awww it isn’t as sharp as fullmetal alchemist 🙁
moe moe KYUN!
w00t I was waiting for this, thanks 😀
nice thx again guys
btw kristen, u ppl are subbing hatsukoi limited too right? just wondering
@cypher
they are.
Thank you very much!
Are you planning on doing WS versions for all eps?
Please say yes. ; ;
“Looks even better on 32″ Hd-ready tv. 19″ is way too small screen for movies :P”
Spoiled leecher is spoiled.
XD in that case I would watch it on my pops Full-HD TV ¬¬ The case its that I’m thanksfull to Chihiro for subbing this show on HD.
HD-tv:s are pretty cheap nowdays, a good jummer job for a moth and youll have enough money for one.
Leecher as in?
overall upload ratio 1.5 😛 probably more if you only count chihiro-sub torrents.
Kristen is so moe!
How does that little hat stay on her head?
less Mio, more Mugi-Wugi
“How does that little hat stay on her head?”
Her moe power is what’s keeping it from not falling off.
Thanks for the XviD bitrate wasting trash! You might not like it much, but I love it… and I like you a lot for releasing an XviD version. 🙂
sad to say.. but… in my Sony Bravia the 720p looks crappy.. but 480 performs better…
im telling you its like in 720p ohh fuck what is that… its like there some parts were been stretched…
and on 480p.. there are black part on top and buttom but the quality is good…
i played my files using WD TV HD Player….
“HD-tv:s are pretty cheap nowdays, a good jummer job for a moth and youll have enough money for one. ”
I wouldn’t mind one, but I have nowhere to put it. D=
Hmm. According to Media Player Classic, the video on the 480p version is 720×480.
^ 720×480 anamorphic. It’s an encoding thing that saves bitrate, to make terms simple. It’ll play back at 853×480 so long as you have it configured correctly and actually play the episode.
Thanks for the release.
Yay, wide screen. Now I can collect Chihiro’s K-On! instead of a certain other rival fansub group’s
“sad to say.. but… in my Sony Bravia the 720p looks crappy.. but 480 performs better… ”
Maybe you have a Zoom or image adjustment issue. I can connet my Lap directly to the TV so I don’t have problems as long as the video plays ok on the Laptop.
Thanks. Updating MPC did the trick.
What are the “correct settings”? I’m using the latest K-Lite Codec Pack with Media Player Classic-Home Cinema. Disabling the ffdshow H264 filter (thus falling back to Windows 7’s WMF codec) gets the video to play at the right aspect ratio, only to be resized to 720×480 once I pause it. Other anamorphic MKVs (such as E-D’s Air) seem to play fine for me.
Yay, wide screen release…awesome chihiro^^. But torrent is very slowly in my countryT_T, i hope someone can provide MU link for 720p release. Thank you.
Is it just me or does Mio almost look pregnant in that picture?
Thank you very much Chihiro for wide screen version. Now I can see more! Hehehe.
Do the OP and ED have the resolution data? MPC keeps switching to back to 720×480 when it reaches them.
@fortmax, yeah I have that problem too
And I don’t know how you toke that screenshot of the upscale… My upscale (SD) looks much better then yours…
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/3779/afbeelding3.png
(but still the 720p upscale looks better, altough not as much as you have shown
I don’t suppose I could talk you into releasing 720p MP4 versions right? :<
Stupid 360/PS3… Play mkv’s already.
You guys forgot to set the aspect ratio to 16:9 on the 480p OP and ED, so they display at 720×480 instead of 853×480. Which, in turn, makes the entire episode display at 720×480 in MPC-HC unless you override the aspect ratio. I’m using the latest CCCP, by the way.
essiw, media players will add additional filters to all files. Mine are taken from AVSP, which will not add any additional filters.
MKV support for consoles and standalone players is very unlikely. Open source format used by mainly “pirates” doesn’t really bring the format it to a good light. Not to mention that Mp4 already is very similar yet officialy noted format which is pretty widely used too.
But you might try to convert and hardsub the file yourself or look for encodes.
@Kristen, ok that explains 😉
Awesome! Can’t wait for the blu-rays when they come out!
Gregory: Mystery solved—a friend of mine has one of those little side-hat things! It’s connected to a headband (same as the ornament on Ritsu’s head), which would be hard to see on Mio because it’s as dark as her hair… and now I have an awesome new cosplay idea for my friend, who probably has all of the appropriate gear in her wardrobe already. Muhaha. >;)
surasshu: Try the FUPPES, MediaTomb or tversity UPnP media servers. If you set them up right (which is, I admit, the tricky part), your console will find them on the network, and they can transcode the video (complete with styled subs!) on-the-fly, straight from your media server to the best your console can support. In theory, at least. In practice, I’m trying, at length, to get that working myself (and may have to contribute patches for ordered chapter support!), so good luck.
Viper7: Two words: Popcorn Hour.
Kristen: I heard/saw the BS-TBS .ts was a bit… uh… questionable, so congratulations on Chihiro being able to work with it, and thanks very much for this! And thanks for still doing an oldschool XviD (for all those who still play from XBMC on an original Xbox)!
“Viper7: Two words: Popcorn Hour.”
Have never heard about that kind of device before, and after doing some google it seems its not even that widely available. But personaly Id just buy a new PC instead of device like that, just because it sounds fishy, but has potential as a nice media device gotta admit that. Hopefully it will get more attention and bring on some heat for other mediadevices to support mkv
Many just prefer these new consoles (X360 and Ps3) nowdays, its hard for any mediaplayer to come even close to the 50m total sales of these machines. Not to mention that these are often plugged in to a HD-TV (and its way easier than with pc, took a day for windows(thanks to awesome powerstrip) and 2 days for ubuntu to figure out how to get my HD-tv show decent resolution) for Ps3 it took less than a minute.
If both of these consoles would start to support mkv it would be pretty awesome, but somehow i just doubt it. It took them what? 5? 10? years to get Xvid support?
Can you just make the scaling to 1920×1280????? I would REALLY, REALLY be a happy camper then =] (its a joke)
Myoukochou: I have tried TVersity before but was unsuccessful in getting it to work properly. I’ll definitely try those other suggestions though, thanks!
I also did try GOTsend which does work… but I’d really rather not re-encode for obvious reasons. I thought it might be worth the long-shot of requesting a MP4 encode~
Looks great. Thanks!
BTW, that’s in SMPlayer, Mandriva 2009, AthlonXP 2100+, NVidia GeForce 5200, 1gig of RAM . With XP, this machine would cough up blood playing this file, but in Linux, 1080p is a piece of cake.
What Desbreko said. The OP and ED of the 480p don’t have the correct aspect ratio.
Viper7: Microsoft is deader than dead. Nobody cared about the crap called Vista, nobody’s going to get *indows 7. SONY? I can has rootkit?!? No fangs.
YES, there are super-cheap stand-alone players that support MKV with soft-subs and H.264 in HD resolution. Get your head out of your arse.
^^ EVERYbody’s going to get WINdows OVER 9000!*
*FYI it’s just XP with media optimization and chan-related stuff worked in (fukken saved button etc.)
Awesome release, cant wait for the next episode.
Looks swell on my TV, and I’ve grown strangely addicted to the ED.