Postby sgupta » 14 years ago
w00T! Alright, I got done with the file generation more quickly than I thought. =) This isn't bad with the right tools. Now the whole thing's down to finding the best distribution method and getting these massive things uploaded on a slow upstream connection - lol.
I've got all 6 ISO's ready to go in addition to all 23 AVI's (the episodes go to 24, but Eternal Boy, number 20, is missing as previously reported, so it's actually 23 eps; they just completely skip 20).
Each AVI is ~ 530 MB. I could either share them RARed up in one package (about 11.7 GB) or individually on a FTP server in a folder - whatever's preferred.
The ISO images are more interesting. The first three discs each weigh in at about 6.33 GB and have as high a quality video as you could ask. Interestingly, the next three are all much smaller (3.7 GB for two and the one with only three episodes weighing in at 2.76 GB). I tried to compare in media players video quality between the AVI's generated from the large discs and the smaller ones and I could tell only a very slight degradation in quality (so small I had to pause on the same frame to truly detect it), so video is still extremely high quality - just not *quite* as high as those first discs (labeled single layer, believe it or not, but they've got to be dual and labeled incorrectly).
The bigger difference is if I try to play the latter discs directly from DVD on my computer with certain programs. The smaller discs have very annoying interlace artifacts. I'm curious to see what it'll look like on my DVD player and am burning a disc now to try it. Curiously, Windows Media Player plays it fine without these artifacts, but most of my other media players have problems. I have a feeling it has a lot to do with how the video's encoded and what program is decoding it. It's pretty obvious the discs 4-6 are encoded much differently than 1-3 are.
I'm curious if the Japanese discs will vary that much as the series progresses. I should also note the first 3 discs came in the "Collector's" box set with figures and such. The latter 3 came in the more standard (but same release) box set (a nifty hologram, but no toys), which I was under the impression was the same DVDs without the toys, and the jackets/art/cases for all 6 discs are consistant. So it's *possible* the 2nd *Collector's* set has the dual layer DVD's as well, but I kind of doubt it. Seems more like they were trimming costs with the second set and then as probably most of you know, the 3rd and 4th sets that would have completed the series never were produced. I'd be curious to hear from anyone with the 4, 5, and 6 discs from the Collector's Set and how much data is on them.
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sgupta on Fri Dec 04, 2009 4:03 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I would love to be able to download an uncut version with better subtitles. 
