piruchan wrote:

Are by any chance you are a law student? How do you know all that?

Otamegartist wrote:

I've read the Anime Knowledge's spoiler box. Thanks for the InformationＯ(≧▽≦)Ｏ

loldcraft wrote:

Since we are on the topic of, erm.... lets say converting the anime/manga we downloaded we bought to support our multiple devices i'll contribute abit on the technical part of ripped converted for use in other devices anime.

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General terms:
BDrip refers to anime copied out of the blu ray disc (the type you should be going after)

Softsubs means that the subtitles are written in a file and put onto the video by the music player, which means that it isn't directly imprinted onto the video itself, thus can be turned off, reaplaced with another language, have its colour /size/placement changed should your player allow it
Hardsubs are the opposite, but can be played with a media player that doesn't support subtitles

now the more technicalpart that most people don't even know about because everything is automatically done for them.

you know about different images having different filetype? (.png, .jpg, .gif) well surprise .mkv (or .mp4, or .avi) isn't a video type, its a container
what is a container?
well apprantly it wouldn't be nice to have a seperate file for the video, audio, and subtitles, and chapter markers. So a container basically... contains all of those in a single file

then what are "video filetypes"?
the most common one we use for general anime is H.264, its a widely used format (or codec, as it is called)

what's this 10bit video i've been hearing about?
well basically there has to be some data in the video file to tell the player what colour each part of the video needs to be, and 10bit basically means that instead of using 8bits of data to specify what colour that part is, it uses 10 bits.

why would they do this and how does it implicate me?
well colours transition from each other more smoothly and since the instructions for colour are more specific, you can drop more data and still maintain the same relative quality of the image.
however, since the instructions are more specific, it would require more processing power to carry out those instrctions, making lower end computers suffer.

whats lossless and lossy compression?
i'm assuming you know that compression is the process of reducing the amount of space required to store data (for example AAAAAAAAAA could be written as Ax10, but its way more complex than that). lossless compression is when the compressed data can be recreated back into its original form, with no difference whatsoever. its more likely used for recreating audio cds or making further copies of discs or for audiophiles. the reason for this is because no matter how many times you recompress using a lossless technique, there is no quality loss over time (examples of lossless compression for images are .png, sounds being .flac, .tta) many video formats support lossless, but its almost NEVER used
lossy is where they throw away enough data to make the file much smaller, but the quality drop should be little to unnoticable. mp3 is a lossless format, i'm not gonna explain how it works, if you don't know, then good because your music library will be much larger if you didnt...

manga/imagescans

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the difference between .png and .jpg (this applies to osu skinning also)
.png does not throw away any data when being formed, thus capable of replicating the original image perfectly and repeated saves don't degrade the quality.
It also allows pixels to be set to transparent, but the file size is much larger
.jpg compresses images, throws away data to make the filesize smaller and hence cannot reproduce the orignal image. however the size savings are good for most people who don't need to constantly edit and re-save, beause most of them don't even care about minor imperfections in the image and value storage space more. pixels cannot have a transparency value, and thus is unsuitable for most game graphics

.png is mostly prefered for archival/scans, .jpg for displaying on the web because it loads faster.

all information is on a correct me if i'm wrong basis, if you would want me to elaborate on anything just say.

blissfulyoshi wrote:

I don't think I would ever upload a jpg. Since filesize is usually not an issue these days .tiff or .png would be better to use internally.

Yuzuru wrote:

blissfulyoshi wrote:

I don't think I would ever upload a jpg. Since filesize is usually not an issue these days .tiff or .png would be better to use internally.

some shitmanga hosting such as man**fox are using jpg btw

since they want to make their bandwith as low as possible

Yuzuru wrote:

blissfulyoshi wrote:

I don't think I would ever upload a jpg. Since filesize is usually not an issue these days .tiff or .png would be better to use internally.

some shitmanga hosting such as man**fox are using jpg btw

since they want to make their bandwith as low as possible

Yuzuru wrote:

fyi, mangascans are using .psd when the scan is not done yet. and to upload to the manga host, we're using .zip file which consist either png or jpg (well at least that's what i do)

SoG Tava wrote:

idk if this is the right place to ask this but annyway i was kinda wondering why so manny 'otaku' people have cats as there pets ?

SoG Tava wrote:

idk if this is the right place to ask this but annyway i was kinda wondering why so manny 'otaku' people have cats as there pets ?

Shivarion wrote:

SoG Tava wrote:

idk if this is the right place to ask this but annyway i was kinda wondering why so manny 'otaku' people have cats as there pets ?

Datte neko wa kawaii desu >.< (because cat is cute >.< )
just in anime though, for honest i don't really like cat in the real world ._.
especially female chara dressed with cat costume >.<