please fetch this one THX!

Nothing good about ARR subs

Please fetch this

meh another flacebo release.

Can this be fetched please?

Hdtv means ripping directly from jp tv (cable tv). Like ATX.

What is this? [HEVC HDTV]

the audio is english...

Think this belongs to https://animetosho.org/series/aldnoah-...2015.10846

Thanks!

Was requested in the Doki release of this same episode, as I had a copy, here it is:
https://gofile.io/d/4sZE26 [CMS]_Astarotte_no_Omocha_EX_[BD][720p-AAC][B9B5E36E].mkv
gofile links likely won't last the week, despite being fast, I can try a usenet upload if anyone wants it, if I manage.

Here you go anon:
https://gofile.io/d/4sZE26 [CMS]_Astarotte_no_Omocha_EX_[BD][720p-AAC][B9B5E36E].mkv
gofile links likely won't last the week, despite being fast, so I could try uploading a nzb too if you want, I have some usenet account from some questionable source, but haven't checked if it has posting enabled yet. Will post it also in the post with this actual release as well: https://animetosho.org/view/cms-astaro...mkv.447695

please fetch

Smaller size means lowering the quality, im not a huge fan of mini encodes even when using hevc or av1, just doesn't have the same  polished finish.

please fetch this release

having a full BD release of both seasons at a reasonable size (it's 50 eps after all) is worth getting

it's https://animetosho.org/series/kaijuu-8...2025.18722

Episode 2,3 and 4?

I guess that'd be okay. I'm not sure what would be the preferred hoster, though.

thank you, Ironclad  please Encoded  Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha. 1080p AV1 👏

this torrent is wrongly placed in the wrong series. it should be at `https://animetosho.org/series/jojo-no-kimyou-na-bouken-ougon-no-kaze.14173`

I'll have to do my best not to get into autistic encoding preference fights. Maybe if we both stay quiet the others will ignore it! There's no way to sage a comment on AT... I still don't know how I ended up in this thread, what was I ever searching for.
Time to go watch some anime instead!

No shot you end this with "nevermind"

Nevermind, why the fuck did I reply to a half a year old post. Somehow I ended up in this thread for some reason, I don't even know why!

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Could I upgrade? Old CPUs that can play it can easily be found for a few $, motherboards more expensive. Do I want to? I actually already upgraded, I have a recent machine, the reason for upgrade was local LLM/image gen "AI" use, more recent video games and a development machine, and the actual expense was much higher (mid few thousand $) than any such trash picked PCs, and yet, I will continue to watch my anime on my old C2Q, as transparent encodes in anime is a solved problem, I have enough space and bandwidth even on my old machines and I don't like to be forced by others. I will watch AV1 if the following conditions are met: 1) original source was in AV1 (all streamers provide transparent H.264 encodes these days as well, and BDs are in H.264, UHD BDs are in HEVC) 2) if AV1 was not used to recompress, but was targeting transparency, and more importantly 3) if anyone bothers making optimized decoders for it that run even on ancient potatos - they are very possible, but if nobody cares, why would I care about you providing me a "solution" to an already solved problem? (transparent encodes)
I could of course watch it on my new machine, but why would I watch a crappy re-encode.

Thanks for listening to my autism.

As for this release, Kokoro Connect was such a fun anime and it has a special place in my heart, I watched it fansubbed when it aired many years ago, seeing a second BD rip for it makes me tempted to rewatch it again. MTBB already made a regular transparent H.264 decodes, so he's not forcing anyone to watch AV1, this is just for those that really are stingy with storage or live in the north pole or the boonies and bandwidth is scarce.

I tend to find AV1 shills insufferable.

So I'll tell you my entitled story.
Many years ago, back when Eclipse was still a fansub group, they started doing H.264/AVC1 (with x264) encodes besides MPEG ASP(XviD).
I was on a Pentium 3 machine back then, xvid (asp) playback was fine, avc struggled beyond 480p, even with better decoders.
But you know, AVC was great, it had deblocking, it looked fucking good, so much better than xvid, you couldn't tell as well when you used a CRT, but after moving to a LCD, the blocking in xvid was insufferable.
AVC had some banding problems when bitrate was too low, but with a deband filter it was great.
So to actually experience much better video quality, I upgraded to a Core2Quad then, it has SSSE3, and it was good for encoding and decoding H.264.
I finally got to enjoy a lot better quality rips and I got to make a lot of rips and fansubs too, it was a fun time.
Fast forward a lot of years, the C2Q is still good for decoding H.264 and HEVC, at 4 cores it barely reaches 15-30% total CPU use on 1080p 23.0976fps, and even higher it's passable, even 60fps works, even if rare.
x264 has been well optimized for anime, the decoders are all mature and work everywhere, it is good.
Streamers (crunchyroll, hidive, amazon, netflix, disney+, and other ones) all use it, CR even gives it 8MBps close to transparent, you really don't need anything more, it's close to BD quality.
BDs sometimes give it even more, posibly up to 20MBps, again this decodes very well even on such an ancient CPU.
People have had at least 100Mbps internet connections at home for many many years now unless they live in the sticks, even most third world countries have uncapped fast fiber these days.
"Encoding" is solved, anime looks great, any encodes are *transparent*
Storage is not that cheap, nor that expensive, but if you know where to look you can even get 20 TB for 300$.

I don't see the point in AV1, my old C2Q will play all H264/HEVC encodes just fine, most AV1 decoders lack custom code for such old CPUs (they have a few gens newer) because nobody cares to finish writing it, not because it's impossible, it's just a lack of care from the devs - in fact many decoders just simply crash on such old CPUs because they don't even check cpuid right last I checked, and those that are software-only are many times slower (slower than realtime, thus useless) then optimized H264 or HEVC decoders.
Could I spend a week and back-port the slightly newer code a generation back? Yes, I have the skill for it, do I want to waste my time on it? No, I really don't care, there's barely any AV1 original content, in the very rare cases (one single AV1-only release that I'm aware of) I just did a quick H.264 re-encode to watch it.
Transparency is already achieved with x264, it's a solved problem. If you re-encode a streamer's encode to 1/4 the size, even with a more "efficient" codec such as AV1, you are going to murder some details, this is unavoidable in any repeated re-encodes, if you re-encode a BD it's the same, in both cases nowadays most people tend to have enough storage and enough bandwidth they can watch transparent encodes and not worry about anything, even on the most ancient machines possible.
Most people doing AV1 encodes don't go for transparency most of the time, they go for "let's get this as small as possible for some bloke that somehow lacks the storage and bandwidth, but somehow has a modern CPU or custom AV1 hardware decoder".
The reason it even got popular is mostly for corporate needs to save some 20% or so bandwidth costs, meaning Netflix and Google (Youtube) are those pushing for this, this is purely about money for them.
AV1 isn't even anime optimized unlike x264 that had a lot of hand tuning just for this type of content.

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