AstroBoy Online Forums

Good day to all.

Iam a long time fan of astro boy since my childhood, where I was able to watch it, but not the all episode. The TV station here didn't finish all the episodes.

Iam very very happy to find out this web site. Indeed reading from the message here I find all the people here are very nice.

The bad side is ... I wasn't able to understand all the posting here since I wasn't able to watch astro boy since my childhood ... that could be about 10+ years.

what are the differences between the 60's 80's and new version of astroboy? do they have difference story line? and with each version of astroboy we have different dubb and subb. do they have different story line?

Iam very eager to have all the astro boy stuff, but Iam from Philippines where I could have a hard time getting those stuff. I only have dial up as my internet connection. so that could take a long time for me to download all those video.

Hi anapan ... what is the difference between the files in vcd, raw, dub under the new episode?

what is the dubb under the 80's root folder?

hi mark i think youre the founder of this web site. beside from having interest on astro boy, youre interested in programming? what development tools are you using?

thanks to all of you and its nice meeting you.

james

The 60's version is in black & white, and there are alot more episodes of it than the other 2. All of the series are based mostly on the original Astro manga, and have episodes that follow stories that happen in it. Of course each series has completely new stories aswell. Alot of the other differences just have to do with the technology at the time, as there was 20 years (more or less) between the time each was made - that impacted both the quality of animation, and visual details in the actual technology seen and used in the shows.

The 80's series was censored for the English release, so there are some extra scenes in the original Japanese release.

For the new ones, the ones with [T-N] at the beginning are subbed in English with Japanese audio.
VCD: Subbed episodes, re-encoded into Video-CD format Mpegs, ready to be burnt to CD and watched on a DVD player.
RAW: Original Japanese episodes, that havn't been subtitled (these are the files the Subbers are using as a base for their releases)
Dub: English episodes (audio), with Japanese subtitles.

The 80's root folder is all english dubbed, the other languages (Japanese and French) are in subfolders.

Is the 5th fansubbed ep on your ftp yet?

Hello!

I'm in the process of uploading the following album:

http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Arch/SR/Z...Boyz/SRCL-5655/

Hope you guys enjoy it. I prefer tracks 6/7...

When I downloaded this from WinMX, it was one long MP3 file.
I split it up, and renamed it each track, using Babelfis...
so the song titles don't really make sense. Please feel free to change them.

And I'd also like to say thanks to Anapan for serving all the video files!

Hey bub2000, thanks for uploading that, and also for splitting the songs up for us. Also, welcome to the forums. Hope you stick around.

Jeffbert: Nope, I wasn't aware that it had been released. Has it?

I've been trying to download the first episode in the new series folder, but after a half hour maybe, it seems to stop downloading without finishing. I use verizon if this means anything. Can anyone help me on this?

Oh yeah, in the eps directory, the file "Astroboy 01 - The Birth of Astro (80s raw with jap sub).avi" is my own encode,.........

Anapan, I fianlly finished downloading this ep from your FTP(bloody dialup ) & tried to play it using Media Player & all i get is the sound but no pics. Do I need to rename the file type?? do I need something else to get it to work?? The only reason I ask is that is has literally taken me weeks to get this file (thank goodness for Getright ) and I would love to watch it after waiting soo long :wacko: HEEEELPPPPP :wahah:

Dragonrider1227: You should get a download manager then (Getright for example), that way if the download stops for some reason, it can be continued from where it was cut off.

Loüßëãr: It sounds like you need to install the DivX codec. You can get that codec and a good AVI player at http://www.divx.com. There are other media players that would be able to view the episode if that doesn't work.

Good luck. Let me know how it works out, or if you need more help.

is that the best video quality you can rip?
please dont get me wrong
Im not picking on you
just curious

Nope, it's just the quality I calculated to get the filesizes close to 150 megs each (830 Kb/s VBR multipass). I asked about preferred filesize/quality earlier on this thread and never got any response. It seemed like a pretty efficient tradeoff between filesize and quality.
If I had made the files a bit bigger they wouldn't look that much better tho since I'm working from VCD format Mpg files that are around 200 megs each (mpg is older/crappier compression than DivX). IMO the episodes I encoded actually look a little better than the original because I use a bunch of filters to resize, brighten, sharpen and clean up the mpg graininess and color loss from the source video before I recompress them.

I probably should've used the XviD codec on them because it shows more fine details and sharp edges in animated material, but since I started with DivX instead I may as well continue using it. There probably wouldn't be that big a difference anyway.