What's up with Toei streaming these last two weeks?

[takenoko]

The Amazon ones are supposed to be pretty good (just large raws). Someone put the current episode TVer encodes up, but they're worse quality than the broadcast episodes. I haven't had time to look at Abema yet

[ViRGE]

With any of those services, I'd be sure to check the frame rates. If they host content from multiple sources, they may normalize everything to 30fps out of convenience...

[takenoko]

Is that a thing that happens? I don't know if I've seen that

[HowlingSnail]

If you guys wanted to V2 stuff for high quality, I always buy the Blu-Rays. Obviously that's many months away, but I've got everything ToQger to present pretty much.

[ViRGE]

Is that a thing that happens? I don't know if I've seen that

Sometimes. Especially if the uploader is inept (and Toei isn't winning any Nobel prizes right now...).

[takenoko]

If you guys wanted to V2 stuff for high quality, I always buy the Blu-Rays. Obviously that's many months away, but I've got everything ToQger to present pretty much.

Thanks, but we also pick up Blu-rays if we're planning on working on them. I don't think we really have the manpower to work on shifting the scripts for encoding to Blu-ray unless it's like something we really like unfortunately

[takenoko]

With any of those services, I'd be sure to check the frame rates. If they host content from multiple sources, they may normalize everything to 30fps out of convenience...

The Abema files are 30 fps. Apparently this is more common than I thought

[ViRGE]

With any of those services, I'd be sure to check the frame rates. If they host content from multiple sources, they may normalize everything to 30fps out of convenience...

The Abema files are 30 fps. Apparently this is more common than I thought

D'oh! I wasn't exactly hoping to be right, here...

If they're just duplicate frames, it may be possible to fix them via decimation. But I'm well out of date on what the current solutions are for that.

[takenoko]

http://avisynth.nl/index.php/TIVTC/TDecimate

There's a simple filter that removes all the duplicate frames. I have no idea how it works, but it's like magic to me

[ViRGE]

I see that Anon's releases this week aren't broadcast TV rips. Any idea of Toei finally fixed their TTFC chicanery, or if they're using a different source?

[takenoko]

So Abema is pretty interesting. It's a site that lets you stream the most recent episode of SHT (gotta be in Japan though). 30 fps, but still higher quality than TTFC is it is now. Is it as high quality as a broadcast equivalent? Not sure, but it's good enough and more clean (edit, the broadcast has more detail when comparing the two encodes openings, but you'd never notice unless you compared them side by side)

Oh, one annoying thing is the SHT intro and outro are included so those need to be snipped and has to be converted to 24 fps. One nice thing about ttfc is that it was more or less ready to work with as is

[ViRGE]

Interesting. I didn't realize Abema was same-day. I thought they were delayed a few days. But I guess that's just Amazon?

As the resident image quality snob, I agree with your assessment. Looking at some of the frames from the OP, it's a bit worse than broadcast (or good TTFC), but not immensely so. And it's certainly leaps and bounds better than the currently bad TTFC. Though it's odd that it's zoomed in just a little.

I'm also glad to see the 30 to 24fps conversion is working so well. I wouldn't have even noticed it was decimated if not for the fact that I had been told the source was 30fps.

[takenoko]

>Interesting. I didn't realize Abema was same-day. I thought they were delayed a few days. But I guess that's just Amazon?

Abema is interesting since you can watch the previous episode up till the air time of the new eps. And I think the new eps becomes public after the episode airs, so I didn't have to wait long to hear about someone in Japan grabbing it

>Though it's odd that it's zoomed in just a little.

Oh, I think someone mentioned that as well. Not sure why, unless it's Toei's way of watermarking where the file is being distributed?

>I'm also glad to see the 30 to 24fps conversion is working so well. I wouldn't have even noticed it was decimated if not for the fact that I had been told the source was 30fps.

Yeah, most of the time it's no issue nowadays. It's more of a pain when there's interlacing fuckery to deal with. Thank goodness for the HD age

[Thenosa Yechette]

>Interesting. I didn't realize Abema was same-day. I thought they were delayed a few days. But I guess that's just Amazon?

Abema is interesting since you can watch the previous episode up till the air time of the new eps. And I think the new eps becomes public after the episode airs, so I didn't have to wait long to hear about someone in Japan grabbing it

I don't mean to be annoying or anything but I remember mentioning this in my previous comment. My wording may not have been perfect, though.

But you can get the raws from Tver and Abema for free and they have the episodes available for a whole week from the premiere date. They just require a VPN.

[takenoko]

I hear rumors that the TTFC this week were good again?