>mfw downloading subs these days in 1080p is 1+GB each episode>not to mention they shit the floor when I use VLCWhy is this allowed? Why can't we go back to the days when one 1080p episode is like 300MB and well subbed and well optimized? >inb4 >vlcWe live in 2025 now, it isn't bad anymore.
>>286199842>2026>vlc
>>286199842Or you can pay $5 a month and watch everything via streaming, and let your drives take it easy.Don't tell me you rewatch anime over and over....if you have a favorite, buy the bluray.
>>286199842>2025Update your model, no one uses gpt 3.5 anymore
>>286199842>1+GBPeople are using VLC or MPC so they have to overencode the shit out of the files or it becomes VHS quality.Upgrade to MPV it just werks.
>>286199842>I use VLC>Why is this allowed?>it isn't bad anymore>they shit the floorIt's like a haiku: it rhymes.
Stop hoarding anon. Just delete your shit after watching
>>286199910Let's be honest, the subs by fans are just superior than the ones on streaming sites. It's more.. fanservice-y? I can't explain it.>>286200033>>286199895There is literally nothing wrong with VLC now, it's the encoders that need to adapt.But I'm thinking of switching to MPV simply because /a/ seems to rally around it these days
>>286199842>VLC
>>286200107>it's the encoders that need to adapt
>>286200126Look anon, I like VLC, okay? I used MPC before but moved to VLC and I like it
>>286199842>>286200107>it isn't bad anymore>There is literally nothing wrong with VLC nowIt still does pic related unless you use the nightly release, which is just a bloated mpv.mpv and MPC-HC do not do pic related. They are objectively superior because they do not do pic related.You are objectively retarded if you intentionally use a media player that does pic related when media players that do not do pic related exist.You are also objectively retarded if you use what is essentially a bloated mpv.
>>286200107>There is literally nothing wrong with VLC now, it's the encoders that need to adapt.There once was an anon on /a/Who watched artifacting all dayHe used VLCSo he couldn't seeHe wasted his bandwidth away
>We live in 2025 now, it isn't bad anymore.
>>286199842>not to mention they shit the floor when I use VLCjust use MPV
>>286200164There once was an anon on /a/Who loved watching fansubs all dayHe used VLCSo he couldn't seeThe show he was watching was gay
VLC is designed and intended to be a stream player.MPC-HC and mpv are designed and intended to play local videos.Using VLC to play local videos is like using Adobe Audition as your mp3 player instead of Foobar or Audacious. You can do it, but it's retarded.
>>286200180>still has to recycle the same video created 14,88 years ago
>>286199842An used 1TB HDD costs like 10 bucks
>>286200345The non-nightly release (meaning the version most people still use) still does that shit. It's still relevant.
>>286200043You fags don't hoard anime and/or rewatch certain scenes once in a while? Where's the /a/ I used to know?
>>286200380your info's out of date>>286200451you're getting baited
>>286199842What is this gay namefag blabbering on about
>>286199842Streamers like CR use H.264 for maximum compatibility. They use a high bitrate because it will look like fucking shit without it.
>>286200302>You can do it, but it's retarded.What makes it retarded?It plays the video, what else is a video player meant to do?
>>286200763>What makes it retarded?It's inferior to MPC-HC and mpv at doing it because it does >>286200180
>>286200775It hasn't done that for a long time.
>>286200815Wrong. It still does it.
>>286200823When was the last time you saw it happen?Have you ever actually even seen it happen to begin with or is your opinion based entirely on that 1 webm you just chose to believe must be true?
>>286201012>When was the last time you saw it happen?In yer mum's bedroom the other night.
>>286199842isn't your 10 year old chinkpad 20 years old by now? buy another 10 year old chinkpad and the gig vids will run fine
>>286199842>when one 1080p episode is like 300MBWatch some shitty Judas encode then.
That's why you download 720p and have a built in upscaler in your video player.
>watching animeI thought we were all grown up enough to move on to source material media? Why aren't you reading manga?
>>286201012https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/106740416/#106740416>date>filename date
>>286199895>VLC bad!How?
>>286200815>>286201093I haven't seen a beatdown like this since Tyre Nichols.
>>286199842>mfw downloading subs these days in 1080p is 1+GB each episode>he never lived through the Coalgirls' daysNewfag
>>286201074I'm downloading ASW actually.>>286201155Coalgirls is gay.>>286201093>>286200815I haven't experienced it in a long time too.It literally works fine on my machine, I mean this unironically.
>>286199842>We live in 2025 nowAnon is stuck in a time loop.
>>286201187>It literally works fine on my machine, I mean this unironically.Cool.>not to mention they shit the floor when I use VLCThey won't if you use MPC-HC or mpv.
>>286200158That picture is literally at least a decade old at this point. They've more than likely fixed whatever was causing that issue in VLC, especially since I don't see any sort of video artifacts at all when using it for watching my shows.
>still spazzing out about VLC in 2026
>>286201223see>>286201093
>>286201226And this is why schools need to allow kids to beat up gays and Dragon Ball fans.
>>286201226It's an eternal meme at this point, the cone works for me, therefore it is good
>>286201289>>286201226I only have ONE COMPLAINT for VLC in current year 2025, it's that the screenshots are large in file size.
>>286199842>namecuckOpinion discarded
>>286201301You could configure a superior media player like mpv to save screenshots with a specific level of compression.Then again, wanting compressed screenshots is retarded because screenshots should be uncompressed so you can edit them and save as .jpg for posting on 4chan without compressing them twice like a retard.Of COURSE you're retarded enough to want compressed screenshots. You use VLC.
>>286201063Any faggot with a 20 year old chinkpad would be running mpv on a lightweight Linux distro and still be able to watch anime just fine. I was watching OZC, Bunnyhat, Beatrice, Encodergasm, etc. multi-gig full-grain episodes and movies on a fucking netbook back in the mid 2010s, the real culprit is that Michlan like many namefags is retarded.>>286199842>mfw downloading subs these days in 1080p is 1+GB each episodeNot unreasonable for BD releases, but it is trash seeing seasonal subsplease releases be so bloated>not to mention they shit the floor when I use VLCVLC has always been a meme solely because it uses more resources than MPC or mpv to do the same task. And as other anons pointed out it's had long documented cases of poor performance, which just doesn't happen with its alternatives>Why is this allowed? Why can't we go back to the days when one 1080p episode is like 300MB and well subbed and well optimized? Fast internet speeds and more powerful personal computing has lead to bloated filesizes in anything tech related because optimizing things to balance compression and quality is more involved than just using a generic preset for everything. Plus >>286200588. Also you're bitching about encoding for fucking seasonal shit, BD releases generally have enough groups putting out their own versions where you can pick what filesize/quality works for you.>inb4 >vlc>We live in 2025 now, it isn't bad anymore.No, it still is. It's always just werkz'd but it's literally never been the best. I do respect that they've never fucked with a functional UI, but you genuinely should've fell for the meme and swapped to MPC or mpv years ago.>>286201187>It literally works fine on my machine, I mean this unironically.Evidently fucking not if you're complaining about it.
>>286201226It's amazing how so many people still use VLC. If you think about it
>>286199842>it isn't bad anymore.>it shits the bed when I use VLCchoose one and only oneI don't have this problem with mpv and to be honest, VLC is still shit even with an above average pc
>>286200345Let's say it's fixed (it isn't). Why would I go back to Very Large Cone whrn I have a fully set up Purple Play Button I can literally copypaste into another PC and it will work?I don't like to build fonts cache either.
>>286199842100% the fault of shit and/or lazy encoders, more than once you can check an episode that is just 500mb big and compare it to the exact same episode but 3gb big, is the exact same shit.
>>286199842>2025
>>286204735>vlctard stuck in the pastWhat's so surprising?
>>286204443Absolutely nobody is trying to force you to switch to VLC if what you already have works just fine.But you and several others are trying to force people who use VLC to switch even though they also say it works fine.
>>286204810my fine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your fine
Who iina here?
>vlc
>>286204858
>>286199842>vlcYou have only yourself to blame for this As for the bloated file sizes, optimization for everything died like a decade ago >>286199910(you)
>>286204810>complain about problems they're having with vlc>get told to use another program that doesn't have the chronic issues vlc has had a long history of>double down and claim that no vlc is fine but I sure do wish it didn't have these problemsSome """"""people"""""" are beyond help.
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>>286205071What's le bald finn up to nowadays?
>>286201089>grown up enough to read comic bookswell done being 10 years old instead of 8
>>286205128ruining something for sure
>there's nothing wrong with VLC>it shits the bed trying to play animeI haven't used VLC that much but honestly never had an issue with it. I use mpv though.
>>286205071herkz stinks
>>286201226>monkeys agree to stop beating anyone attempting to climb the ladder>they get the hose againtraditions are solutions to problems we've forgotten
>>286199842>it isn't bad anymore.>they shit the floor when I use VLCYou download 1gb episode to watch in the day of release, few months later when BD gets released and encoded you delete the old episodes and torrent the whole batch which are usually 300-600 mb (unless you prefer remuxes).
>>286199842VLC is shit, OP>>286200107>There is literally nothing wrong with VLC nowignorance>>286201117If you have to ask you wouldn't understand
>>286199910Honestly can't agree. I only torrent for plane rides these days.
>>286199842>2026>downloading
>>286208467 (me)Can't disagree, my bad.>>286199842Though on second thought, I also do want to ask why this is a problem. If your computer can't handle one more gigabyte, then you better get a better computer, or delete some useless files.
x265 enables the same quality in 300MB than a 1.4GB h264, but for some reason not a lot of encodecels use it, maybe out of fear the third world viewers can't play it
>>286208607regardless of how good the codec is, re-encoding lossy sources causes generational quality loss, like making a photocopy of a photocopyI'll take remux'd crunchyroll streams any day over re-encodesI also download untouched blurays whenever possibleonly time I download encodes is for shit that was only available on DVD because deinterlacing is a nightmare in and of itself (GTO, Golden Boy, for instance)
>>286208632use shaders or stuff to denoise, regrain etc. You are right but the size difference makes it too inefficient, an episode in AV1 or HEVC will look *just as good* for 1/5th of the size, I can't justify being a hardcore videophile for watching a torrented Singaporean cartoon that you don't physically own
>>286208704physical ownership is a meme when the discs are just digital files anywayI have plenty of BDs I've bought myself and I literally can't watch them on PC because it requires a specific gen of intel CPU, so I'm forced to decrypt and rip them just to watch them anywayalso I have a 7x18TB NAS and a home theater setup that cost more than my car so I'll take all the bitrate I can getside note, there's a special place in hell for people who label torrents as "remux" but re-encode audio to AACdoubly so for people who re-encode AC3 audio
>>286208607everything gets a x265 encode these days, what year did you crawl out of
>>286199842side note, what happened to all the XDCC bots? I've lost my only way of downloading anime.
>>286209600They're gone, Arutha has closed
>>286199842Fuck you.You are the reason why the Cosmic Princess Kaguya movie looked like absolute ass.People hear your bitching and think they can reduce the bitrate. NO!WE NEED TO GO HIGHER!INTERNET IS FREE (if you have a flat rate plan, which you should)STORAGE IS CHEAPVIEWING EXPERIENCE IS PRICELESS
For me, it's Potplayer
>>286209790The market needs to crash so I can afford more HDDs
>>286209790>Storage is cheapIt WAS cheap
>>286209710So is ddl anime just dead then?
The real test of your videoplayer setup is panning shots, which is honestly really just based off your monitors refresh rate.
>>286205128I just saw a blog post from him on the front page of hackernews a few months ago, complaining about CR subtitles, so basically the same thing apparently.
>>286209928It will be in may when tosho dies. I really hope someone will fill that niche. I don't want to torrent in this totalitarian hellhole
>>286209903>>286209912So RAM, GPU and storage is now "not cheap"Something's fishy
>>286199842>vlc
>>286210049The torrent hydra will never die, whenever one closes down, another pops up to take its place
>>286210064You will own nothing, your careers will be replaced by datacenter powered AI, you will subscribe to cloud services for everything, and you will be happy.
>>286201226https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-experiment-with-five-monkeys-a-ladder-a-banana-and-a-water-spray-condu
You watch anime in HDR right?
everything im watching this season except for golden kamuy is x265 and around 350mb a few hours after the shitty rips go up as episodes air.. I have no problems cleaning out seasonal from my old secondhand ssd every 3-6 months
>>286199842Just stream bro
>>286210064It's literally AI datacenters buying up everything.
>>286201226>>286210190>experiment is made upWhy does this not surprise me. It's like boiling frogs again...
>>286211498This SDR image looks amazing! I'm convinced now.
>>286199842Just subscribe to a Japanese streaming service with your overvalued foreign currency>but muh smubsimagine wanting to watch videos where some fat “lady” who looks like a Far Side character has typed >KEI KAKU meams PLANat the bottom of the screenI am literally a retard with Down’s syndrome, if I can do it so can uou
>>286199842Your welcome
>>286199842Poor jeet, is 1 gig too big for your phone?
>>286213290>I am literally a retard with Down’s syndromeYes that much is obvious
