October 28, 2009
My latest order of DVDs was delivered today. Included were the four DVDs of the R1 release of Real Bout High School which I first encountered as a mystery meat.
I think they're the first TokyoPop DVDs I've ever bought. They seem to have been mastered by someone called "Cinesight". And they did something weird in the DVD encoding, because they've done something strange to Zoom Player. It can play the DVDs fine. But when it's running, I can't use the player menus to turn subtitles on and off. I have to go out to the DVD menus to do it.
Even weirder, when I try to take a frame grab, using the ALT-F hot-key, I get told, "Can't frame capture this file format" What the heck? I've never seen that error before.
Which means I have to fall back on the other way I have to doing frame grabs. I open the raw VOB file using Vidomi, and take a screen grab using Thumbs Plus. It's a bit clumsy, but at least it works.
After I've grabbed a bunch of them, I have a Thumbs Plus batch file that strips out all the cruft, leaving just the central 720*480 of the raw image. Then I can use a batch file in Paint Shop Pro to resize the image to get the proper aspect ratio. (I'm sure you have a better way to do this. Don't tell me about it.)
I wonder what the heck they did? It's strange in other ways, too. The first DVD is 4 episodes, but they used six and a half gigabytes to encode it.
UPDATE: Looking at the ANN listing for the series, I noticed something else strange.
Kimura Ikue, who did the voice of Ryoko (and was really pretty good), turns out to have been a real flash in the pan. She worked on three major series (and a couple of others) in the time frame of 2001-2002, and then vanishes completely from the industry. There must be some sort of story there, but I suppose we'll never find out what it is.
UPDATE: She sang the OP and that is really good. I wonder if she went into recording instead.
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Posted by: J Greely at October 28, 2009 01:18 PM (9Nz6c)
Posted by: Doyen at October 28, 2009 03:21 PM (GTo9u)
Something they did a couple of updates ago broke it.
Posted by: Wonderduck at October 28, 2009 03:26 PM (4Mcos)
Wonderduck, you got me curious. I just tried taking a framegrab from a DVD I know I've done frame grabs from before, and it failed again with the same error.
It occurred to me that I had changed renderers from "VMR9 Windowless" to "EVR", so I changed that back again. And then frame grabs worked.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 28, 2009 05:13 PM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 28, 2009 05:14 PM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at October 28, 2009 05:20 PM (/ppBw)
Posted by: ubu at October 28, 2009 05:23 PM (FxDET)
Posted by: ubu at October 28, 2009 05:24 PM (FxDET)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 28, 2009 05:25 PM (+rSRq)
This'll simplify things.
Posted by: Wonderduck at October 28, 2009 05:30 PM (4Mcos)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 28, 2009 05:30 PM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at October 28, 2009 11:52 PM (vGfoR)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 28, 2009 11:59 PM (+rSRq)
If players respected it MORE, this might have been the standard for how dual-language DVDs worked in the US. But one of the best arguments against this plan was that enough players would just change the subtitle track anyway that it didn't actually do any good.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at October 29, 2009 12:11 AM (vGfoR)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 29, 2009 12:16 AM (PiXy!)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 29, 2009 12:17 AM (PiXy!)
Posted by: metaphysician at October 29, 2009 05:10 AM (vM63Z)
As far as her career goes, the best I can figure out from the blog is that she's part of a two-woman idol group called Angelic that is no relation to the GT idol/racequeen/singing group of the same name. Her partner in the group is the other blog she links to, and I managed to find an entry showing them performing.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at October 29, 2009 11:17 AM (9Nz6c)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at October 29, 2009 11:39 AM (/ppBw)
Enclose all spoilers in spoiler tags:
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Spoilers which are not properly tagged will be ruthlessly deleted on sight.
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