{"id":178,"date":"2011-04-11T13:16:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T12:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/?p=178"},"modified":"2011-04-11T13:18:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T12:18:17","slug":"the-case-against-encoding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"The case against encoding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I saw some young foolish man bump an asuki thread from 2007 because he wanted to watch some youtube tutorials about encoding that had since been set as private. In a flash of insight I realized just how dumb that is.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the tl;dr: you probably shouldn&#8217;t be encoding. There&#8217;s no reason for you to do so. It probably makes your fansub take more time to finish and the end result is probably less than optimal. Also, you probably shouldn&#8217;t be getting into fansubbing.<\/p>\n<h3>Reasoning<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You probably don&#8217;t have your own ts capper. Which means that if you want a ts you&#8217;re going to have to wait a few days for it to pop up on pd\/share, if it pops up at all; and if it doesn&#8217;t, you&#8217;re going to reencode a reencode, and that is just dumb.<\/li>\n<li>You shouldn&#8217;t be hardsubbing. Seriously, don&#8217;t do it. It&#8217;s considered harmful.<\/li>\n<li>Learning how to encode <b>properly<\/b> (as in, with correct VFR, treating interlaced shit correctly, handling earthquake overlays, etc etc etc) takes literally <b>years<\/b>. It&#8217;s not something you pick up in a week by watching Youtube tutorials; it requires an actual learning effort and proper understanding of how the heck digital video actually works. If you encode anyway, there&#8217;s a huge chance you&#8217;ll screw a good deal of your releases up. Some of these screwups will be noticeable to some of your viewers; others might just make other encoders laugh at you, but in both cases it&#8217;s embarrassing, and you don&#8217;t want to be embarrassed on the internet, do you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What you should do<\/h3>\n<p>Download a random raw that doesn&#8217;t look terrible. Mux in your script with mkvmerge. Release. If someone complains about video quality, tell them to blame Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I saw some young foolish man bump an asuki thread from 2007 because he wanted to watch some youtube tutorials about encoding that had since been set as private. In a flash of insight I realized just how dumb that is. Here&#8217;s the tl;dr: you probably shouldn&#8217;t be encoding. There&#8217;s no reason for you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encoding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}