Think you have a fast connection?

**RobRich** · April 5th, 2003, 01:57 AM

Give my latest article a try.

I uploaded and formatted this article with a 56k modem! ?!

JacobM5727 · April 5th, 2003, 02:12 AM

alot of that newer stuff looks really great.. maybe people will learn to ditch real media

**RobRich** · April 5th, 2003, 02:23 AM

Real9 looks decent, but its decoder severely blurs out fine details. Best for basic animations IMO. Many fansub groups are now using R9 for all but the highest quality animes.

I will probably write a short followup comparison that examines proper anime encoding, from source to final encode.

I mostly use XviD, but I am not too sure after this article. Recent XviD builds produce motion artifacts at low bitrates, even with the stable releases. Might finally be time to take a serious look at H.264. It is extremely slow, but the quality remains consistent.

JacobM5727 · April 5th, 2003, 02:25 AM

awesome, the only anime i have gotten was in mpg, and it looked like crap

i dont do much encoding, but i like looking at things that are worth looking at

**RobRich** · April 5th, 2003, 02:38 AM

Yeah, those MPEG-1 anime encodes are horrid to watch. If you want to clean up bad video, you can try using ffdshow to post-process the video during playback.

http://cutka.szm.sk/ffdshow/

Once installed, open its properties, uncheck all codecs, then select "raw video". ffdshow will now intercept the video stream during playback. Adjust the post-processing properties accordingly. I advise turning off "raw video" support after you are done with the badly encoded film, as the extra post processing can severely blur properly encoded content.

JacobM5727 · April 5th, 2003, 02:40 AM

thanks

the jester · April 5th, 2003, 02:43 AM

56k modem

did you leave it on all night?

here = 15mb/s adsl and it still took minutes to download the entire post

re: video payback formats - I'm no expert so I just run with mplayer and xine when that doesn't work

I haven't tried XviD so I'm off to check it out

xenon200 · April 5th, 2003, 02:45 AM

15mb/s ADSL?

~x2

**RobRich** · April 5th, 2003, 02:50 AM

did you leave it on all night?

What is posted is actually just a small fraction of the graphics. I just finished backing up the project. Several thousand compressed and uncompressed pics, plus plenty of video clips. Took multiple CDs.

davidamarkley · April 5th, 2003, 02:51 AM

I think he meant 1.5Mb/s

It took about 1.5 minutes to get the post. 278 Images in all!!

Rob: You must have had to wait a loooong time to get that on there.

Thanks for taking that time though. Very informative and well written article!

David