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Title: Karaoke Rant
Nanoha A's Episode 2 (Alternate Title: Why You Are All Bitches, a rant by LB)
Author: LordBrian
Source: TheTriad
Episode 2 has finally been released, despite Assmo's many and varied attempts at screwing up the encode. Enjoy your lolibattles, and the dreaded forbidden technique, the inverse washboard chest grope.

On another note, some of you have wondered why we didn't karaoke the song lyrics. The reason is because karaoke is gay and anyone who demands it likes taking it up the poop chute.

In all future Triad releases, we will be doing away with karaoke, and will instead simply time the songs as we would any other line in the show. If you are one of the many idiotic leechers who judge a release by the l33tness of the karaoke, fuck off and don't download our shit. God forbid you actually judge a release by something that actually matters, like, oh I dunno, the readability of the subtitles. Allow me to paste some quotes made by your peers.

This one was posted by a "Mikademus" on Anime-Planet's forums, regarding EP's release of Shakugan no Shana: I've watched EP's version and it seems like solid work. It features absolutely gorgeous karaoke -fantastically well made, one impressive feature in the ED is that the romaji text floats BEHIND the animation- and a good enough encode. I generally couldn't care less about "frills" like karaoke, but this is very slick. Some lines are phrased somewhat ankward and once in a while I spotted grammatical or editing errors, and due to long lines with short on-screen time or convoluted construction I had to rewind a very few times, but nothing that irritated me. [...] I've got no prior experience of Eval Powar but this seems like a good release.

He had trouble reading lines because of shitty timing and poor grammar to the extent that he had to rewind and watch multiple scenes again, but this seemed like a good release to him. WHAT THE FUCK. Apparently "slick" karaoke can make anyone ignore a halfass sub job.

This little gem, composed by "Haseo" on Tokyo Toshokan's sewer of a discussion board, reads as follows: And just so you know any fansub I have seen that doesn't have karaoke tends to have Horrid editing, crappy encoding, questionable translations just to name a few things. When they don't bother with karaoke 99% of the time it just means the group is question is doing a speed sub or just doesn't know what they are doing.

Now, I'm not saying that Triad doesn't make mistakes, because we make mistakes often. However, saying that we're either a speedsub group (a laughable concept at best) or that we don't know what we're doing seems a little harsh. I think a more reasonable explanation for this quote is that Haseo is a fucking asshat (or, as Anime-Blitz would no doubt call him, a level 3 asshat).

The problem is that Haseo is not alone in his opinion. We know you bitches are out there, and we hate your guts. In the past, we have done simple karaoke for most of the songs, but we still get complaints from people because it's not flashy enough, there's no flying bullets, where are the explosions and bouncing pantsu, etc. Apparently you do not watch the openings and endings for the songs, you watch it for the eyecandy. We don't sub for the eyecandy, we sub for the anime. If you're not there to watch the goddamn show, don't bother with our releases.

And for those of you who like to sing along with the songs and need the karaoke, you disgust me.

So please, next time you see a release from us, hop on our torrent, download the file, and shove the episode up your gaping collective ass.






Title: Media Capabilities of Playstation 3 & Xbox 360
Author: Unknown
Source: Windows Live
This is a summary of the various audio and video codec combinations possible with each game console.
I will be doing this by container as that is the easiest way to list them clearly. I think this is accurate & I have
personally tested everything below on each console but if there are any mistakes or missing formats please
let me know via the comments. Also Windows 7 though still in beta changes the capabilities of the Xbox 360,
read more here.

Sony Playstation 3 Media Capabilities
Container
Audio
Video
MP4
AAC LC, AAC HE or AAC 5.1
H.264
AVI
MP3 or AC3 5.1
DivX
DIVX
MP3 or AC3 5.1
DivX
VOB
AC3 5.1
MPEG-2 or H.264*
WMV
WMA
VC-1 or WMV9
MP3
MP3
M4A
AAC LC, AAC HE
MPG
AC3 5.1
MPEG-2 or MPEG-1
M2TS
AC3 5.1
H.264
WMA
WMA
WAV
PCM

Notes
*DivX & WMV files are no longer limited to 2GB in size if you have firmware 2.20 or later.
*XviD will play on the PS3 as long as you do not use the more advanced features of it but it is not officially supported.
*MP4 files are limited to 4GB in size & that includes when streaming over a network.
*M4V is the same as MP4 just an Apple variant, PS3 can play M4V but must be renamed to MP4, watch out
though M4V can hold Apple proprietary formats.
*There is a file size limit of 4GB for all file types when playing from local storage (e.g. hard drive, USB stick).
*There is no file size limit for all other file types when streaming over a network.
*For AAC 5.1 to work you need a receiver that supports AAC 5.1 or one that supports 5.1 PCM (HDMI 1.3) as
the PS3 will decode the AAC and output it as 5.1 PCM. AAC 5.1 will be down mixed to stereo in all other
scenarios.
*For H.264 + AC3 5.1 audio encode into AVCHD/M2TS file both Ripbot264 and AutoMKV support it.
** For H.264 + AC3 5.1 to be placed in VOB containers you must encode to MKV then use MKV2VOB to convert it.
*SRT subtitles are supported in .divx containers with firmware 2.20 or later, use AVIAddXSubs to convert
srt/avi files into divx containers (no re-encode necessary, very quick process) & multiple subtitle tracks are
supported for everything else only hard subs are supported by the console (burned into the container).



Microsoft Xbox 360 Media Capabilities
Container
Audio
Video
MP4
AAC LC
H.264 or XviD
AVI
MP3 or AC3
XviD or DivX
MPG*
AC3 (2ch)
MPEG-2
DVR-MS*
AC3 5.1
MPEG-2
WMV
WMA, WMA Lossless or WMA 5.1
VC-1 or WMV7/8/9
WMA
WMA, WMA Lossess or WMA 5.1
MP3
MP3
M4A
AAC LC
MOV
AAC LC
H.264 or MPEG-4 SP
M4V
AAC LC
H.264 or MPEG-4 SP

Notes
*There is no file size limit when streaming over a network for all media types (though I’ve heard stuttering may
occur at 8GB+)
*There is a file size limit of 4GB for all file types when playing from local storage (e.g hard drive, USB stick)
because the Xbox 360 does not support reading drives formatted with NTFS or exFAT (both Microsoft file
systems… tsk,tsk)
*The Xbox 360 has a proper MPEG-4 ASP decoder & can handle the full XviD profile using all of it's features.
** The MPG and DVR-MS containers can only be played through the Windows Media Center Extender mode.
*With the MPG container any AC3 5.1 will be down mixed to 2 channel stereo.
*M4V is the same as MP4 (just an Apple variant, watch out though they can hold Apple proprietary formats).
*Only hard subs are supported by the console (burned into the container) no external subtitles.