This sections covers questions that I’ve been asked in the past (not necessarily through this site) or that I see as general enough to answer. Click on a link below to be taken to my answer. I’ll continue to update this page as more questions come up.
What players do you recommend for your videos?
Why am I getting corrupted and blocky video? How do I fix this?
Why am I getting stuttering video? How do I fix this?
How do I play the FLAC/MKA files with the video?
Why is MEGA giving me a decryption error after it hits 100%?
What other projects do you plan on doing?
What are the numbers and letters in the brackets at the filename ends?
Thanks. You’re awesome and so are your rips.
What’s up with the ‘i’ you use in the units for filesize?
What players do you recommend for your videos?
My top recommendation is Media Player Classic – Home Cinema. With MPC-HC, I also like to use madVR. MPC-HC by itself will work fine and is my recommendation if you don’t want a lot of setup. madVR is a higher quality renderer with much betting scaling algorithms. As a warning, madVR requires a reasonably powerful GPU to get the most out of it.
Another recommendation is VLC. Not only does it support 10-bit natively, but it is also available for all major OSes. Plus, like stock MPC-HC, you can simply install and enjoy.
Why am I getting corrupted and blocky video? How do I fix this?
This is likely happening because you’re using an older player/video decoder that doesn’t support 10-bit/Hi10P videos. Try updating your player first. If that doesn’t fix it, then I’d recommend using one of the players mentioned above.
Why am I getting stuttering video? How do I fix this?
There’s multiple things that could cause this. One is just a configuration issue. If you’re using madVR, then try using a scaling algorithm with less of a performance requirement. As always, if you’re having issues, make sure your player and other filters are up-to-date. It also could just be that your system isn’t fast enough to play the video well. Try downloading a lower resolution version and see if that has stuttering. Beyond that, it’d have to be handled on a case-by-case basis.
How do I play the FLAC/MKA files with the video?
One way is to rename the MKA files such that they start with the video’s name. For example, with the video named “Tiger & Bunny Video.mkv”, you could name the MKA file “Tiger & Bunny Video FLAC.mka” or any other name that starts with “Tiger & Bunny Video”. Then it depends on your Matroska splitter to support external audio tracks and player support for selecting them.
Another way is to remux the video stream with the FLAC streams using MKVToolNix. The resulting MKV file will be different from the source one, and thus the CRC-32 at the end of the filename won’t be correct for the new file. Look at the last question if you don’t know what the CRC-32 is.
Why is MEGA giving me a decryption error after it hits 100%?
I don’t really know why, but MEGA seems to do that for a few files randomly. Seemingly uploading with a different account and encryption key seems to fix this. If I end up seeing this question too often, I’ll end up switching. That said, if you can hunt down the temporary file on your system, it usually turns out that all but a small bit of the file is decrypted correctly, so you can usually rename it and watch it just fine. It just means that the file hashes won’t match.
As an important note, I haven’t been having this problem with this site’s uploads. I’m somewhat suspecting that MEGA fixed whatever was causing this. It seems only my original account’s uploads from my other site were having this problem.
What other projects do you plan on doing?
Right now, I just have Tiger & Bunny for this site. There are a few other series that I have the entire U.S. collection for, which I mention on the Projects page.
I won’t buy DVDs or Blu-rays just to do as a project. I have to actually like the series and buy it for myself. I also won’t take donations to buy them, as I don’t want any money involved in this site whatsoever. I run it on a free blogging service and use free file locker accounts for a reason, and I don’t have any ads for a reason, namely that I don’t want to put any money into or get any money out of this site. This is besides the whole I don’t know how I’d move money around without at least someone learning my identity. I guess there’s Bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies, but I don’t know enough services that actually take those. And even if I took Bitcoin donations, it wouldn’t be enough to fund much of anything, so I’m just not going to do it. As a note, if you see any ads, that’s WordPress doing its thing, not me. I personally don’t remember ever seeing any ads on either of my sites, but WordPress claims that it might put ads occasionally.
What are the numbers and letters in the brackets at the filename ends?
This is a very common practice among anime release groups, but I felt like answering it in a somewhat simple fashion just for people who don’t know. Those numbers and letters are a hexadecimal representation of the file’s CRC-32. Just think of it as the file’s signature of sorts. If the file gets corrupted or changed in anyway, the CRC-32 will likely change in a very significant fashion. Furthermore, if it is only changed by one consecutive group of bits up to 32 bits, then the CRC-32 is guaranteed to be different, assuming there’s no error in the computation itself. Thus, if the file is different from the one that I uploaded, you will be able to tell.
I emphasized the “likely” above, as the CRC-32 is only 32 bits, meaning that there are only 232 different possibilities. Putting that into a calculator sounds like a lot (over four billion), but also realize that there are essentially infinite possible files out there. As such, multiple files may end up having the same CRC-32. It’s just extremely unlikely that any two given files that are different will have the same CRC-32, and it’s not likely enough to even be worth considering for the purposes of this site.
Now what is a good way to check a file’s CRC-32? I replaced the default Windows copy handler with TeraCopy (there’s both a free and a paid version), which automatically checks a file’s CRC-32 anytime that it reads the file. Also, HashTab adds a tab in a file’s properties window where it can calculate the CRC-32, among many other file hashes. Of course, there are many other options out there.
Thanks. You’re awesome and so are your rips.
Not a question, but thanks. I certainly appreciate the compliments. If you leave a comment along this line of thinking, I probably won’t reply though, unless you happen to come up with some creative way of showing your appreciation. I try to reserve the comments for actual questions or relevant discussions, not that I mind these comments. I just feel that saying, “You’re welcome”, over and over again is somewhat pointless and just makes it harder to find actual discussions in the comments. That’s not particularly relevant with this site at this point, as there aren’t that many comments, but it’s more a mindset that I have. Maybe I’m just anti-social.
What’s up with the ‘i’ you use in the units for filesize?
Okay, I seriously doubt anyone is ever going to ask this, but I figured that I’d just go ahead and answer it. Using the ‘i’ in KiB, MiB, etc. basically just means that I’m using the binary definition of the Kilo-, Mega-, etc. prefixes, which are sometimes called Kibi-, Mebi-, etc. I don’t like using the SI prefixes to denote 210 factors, so I go ahead and use the binary versions. Now, along those lines, yes, I realize that Kilo-/Kibi- should actually use a lowercase ‘k’ and that the uppercase ‘K’ stands for Kelvin if using the SI system. I don’t care. I just use capitals for all positive (in scientific notation terms) prefixes. Likewise, I use lowercase for all negative prefixes, not that you’ll ever see any reason for me to use them on this site.
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