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The Official "MyGaming" Anime Thread
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ZenbaaS
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Can you perhaps give me a little more info on this...? I see there were a lot of old guides about two years back on how to get around it but is it still such an issue...? eg. an oldish guide I found on the matter:
http://www.animepassion.net/topic/710-guide-to-making-xbmc-into-an-anime-powerhouse/
Glordit
Neo Zeon
If it's 10bit you are worried about. I am sad to say it is still an issue, the quickest and easiest way to get around it. Just use handbrake/MeGUI to encode it to normal 8bit, sadly 10bit requires a lot more power and the RPi falls short on that (my 1.2Ghz Dual Core LG phone cant play it either) sadly there is no other way around this.
Quality Wise 10bit just has better compression vs 8bit. Two videos that are encoded identical, the 8 Bit would be 500Mb where the 10 bit would be about 270/300. (this is all dependant on many other factors, Deblocking, Ref Frames, Audio, Motion Estimation and what not).
ZenbaaS
New member
Hmm thanks. How many anime is still encoded in 10 bit these days...? Normally I would jsut play anime on my PC and send it via hdmi to my tv so I've never really paid too much attention to it.
Glordit
Neo Zeon
Not much surprisingly, despite it being around for many years. It will usually be labeled; HiP10, 10 bit, HiP. You will find that Blu Ray encodes are more 10 bit to save space, a really good encoder can get 1:1 visually at 1/5th of the size. It's amazing how much Data is used for RAW video.
Sadly I am unable to find a RAW screen cap straight from Television but, let's just say that if you are watching anime right now on a TV in Japan chances are it is 1080i and is upscaled from 480p, despite it being produced at higher resolutions. (I may be speaking under correction here, but when I used to use IRC I was on many of the fansub channels Taka, Dattebayo, SS, Leopard and they could confirm that it was mostly upscales to 1080i). I recall at one stage when Dattebayo was still around. They had stated that people should stop complaining, that Bleach looks "blurry" or "unclear" as they had posted a screencap of the TV Tokyo 7 RAW, and my word was it shocking, the interlacing was so bad you could see the banding.
...and here I am going on about TV broadcast video quality.
TL;DR
It will state 10bit, and not all of it is.
ZenbaaS
New member
Hahaha I read all of it thanks
think I will add anime to xbmc and troubleshoot it as I go.
Glordit
Neo Zeon
I want that...
ZenbaaS
New member
Yeah I won't lie it's very pretty
. Will upload some more pics tonight showing some of the different configurations.
Saint_Dee
The Phantom Poet
Saint_Dee
The Phantom Poet
XBMC is one of the best media center apps I've used. So many configurations and themes to suit pretty much everyone. And pulling media info from various sources is simple
Glordit
Neo Zeon
ZenbaaS
New member
XBMC is one of the best media center apps I've used. So many configurations and themes to suit pretty much everyone. And pulling media info from various sources is simple
How did you get your 10bit animes to play?
Glordit
Neo Zeon
Bluntly put the RPi is not powerful enough to process 10bit. hiP/10bit is not Hardware transcoded so it's done all on the CPU. Good news is 10bit was never really well received and will soon be replaced by H.265 in the new future.
Tsar
The thing that should not be
finished watching full metal alchemist
Spoiler
Bradley was a bastard but I really liked him as a bad guy also hawkeye is a honey and I loved major armstrong Felt really sad for the father dying(fullmetals father not that bad one
Spoiler
Now I am watching gantz.
Spoiler
Bradley was a bastard but I really liked him as a bad guy also hawkeye is a honey and I loved major armstrong Felt really sad for the father dying(fullmetals father not that bad one
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Now I am watching gantz.
Kwaai
Finally Have An Avatar And Signature!
yea im on ep 290 now so close to half way now
Haha you have no idea. (I'm at Episode 600)
Glordit
Neo Zeon
If you have not watched Hunter X Hunter (Original or remake) Here is one reason why:
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I still dont understand why even today Neon Gen, is not well received as many other animes of it's time.
It is foremostly not a shonen show at all despite the main characters being within the age bracket. The gigantic Mecha and violence also do not promote a "teen viewing angle" I implore people that have not watched it to give it a try and seriously "watch" it there is so much going in that you may miss it the first time (I know I did).
It has been a step (somewhat) for other shows similar to it (Code Geass at a stretch if you think about it) While the Gigantic Robot theme has been around longer than that (Original Gundam is cira 79') It was and still is a marvel in my opinion with regards to animation and art, for it's time (1995-1996) During 1995 we saw Gundam Wing, Sailor Moon and Slayers. Also interesting to note at the time there was a Street Fighter II anime series. Still it shows that when most people are asked about anime in the 90's Neon Gen always seems to come up.
Many of the characters suffer from some form of deep psychological trauma, weather it be with parents or society. Various themes of religion are brought up with in the series, creation and destruction, death and rebirth, sexuality, coming of age and growing up. I will even toss good and evil in there as technically that is what drives almost everything in most forms of entertainment.
Ah! what the hell am I saying anime is like art and music, like it, don't like it. Who cares right?
I think if they cut out the unnecessary stuff thats not in the manga and fillers it would be at about episode 400.
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I still dont understand why even today Neon Gen, is not well received as many other animes of it's time.
It is foremostly not a shonen show at all despite the main characters being within the age bracket. The gigantic Mecha and violence also do not promote a "teen viewing angle" I implore people that have not watched it to give it a try and seriously "watch" it there is so much going in that you may miss it the first time (I know I did).
It has been a step (somewhat) for other shows similar to it (Code Geass at a stretch if you think about it) While the Gigantic Robot theme has been around longer than that (Original Gundam is cira 79') It was and still is a marvel in my opinion with regards to animation and art, for it's time (1995-1996) During 1995 we saw Gundam Wing, Sailor Moon and Slayers. Also interesting to note at the time there was a Street Fighter II anime series. Still it shows that when most people are asked about anime in the 90's Neon Gen always seems to come up.
Many of the characters suffer from some form of deep psychological trauma, weather it be with parents or society. Various themes of religion are brought up with in the series, creation and destruction, death and rebirth, sexuality, coming of age and growing up. I will even toss good and evil in there as technically that is what drives almost everything in most forms of entertainment.
Ah! what the hell am I saying anime is like art and music, like it, don't like it. Who cares right?
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