Book of Bantorra Pending

No, Bantorra is not dropped. We have it in from reliable sources(tm) that the capper fucked up capping episode 14 and that it will re-air on Jan 18th. For the few of you that actually follow us, we recommend for you to watch Horriblesubs if you cannot wait until then.

EDIT by Crypt: We will be releasing 15 and future episodes as usual. No, we will not be holding back so we can do a dodecadrugal release or whatever shit (Yes, when lolslow groups do quadriple releases or whatever, it means that they’ve held back). We believe that if shit gets done, you should have the option to see it. No one is forcing you to skip episode 14, or watch HorribleSubs or anything, you are free to wait for us or (lol) Fubuki.

EDIT 2: Episode 14 is a SUMMARY EPISODE, which means all it has are LOLFLASHBACKS. Thus you should continue your Animu Watching Expedition(tm) and proceed to the next stop of Episode 15.

How to nicely resize videos on playblack

OK, so basically you’re a rich faggot like RHE who has a monitor that has like >= 1080 lines of vertical resolution or something. You open up a 480p animu in MPC HC, full screen it, and find that it looks like shit, and the edges of the subtitles look like they’ve been chewed by your dog, spat out, then chewed again.

The first option is to use a renderer in MPC HC that has a good resizer, like madVR or Haali’s Renderer. That’s all great, but subtitles are rendered onto the video before it reaches the renderer, so while the video is OK, the subtitles still look crap.

A solution here is to use MPC HC’s internal subtitle renderer, which renders the subs straight onto the screen (after the video passes the renderer), but if your monitor isn’t exactly the same aspect ratio as the video that you’re watching, soft-subbed typesetting will be in the wrong place (loltypesetting).

So if you haven’t figured by now, we need to resize the video to what we want before the subtitles are rendered onto it. The solution is to use ffdshow’s AviSynth filter.

Once you have a video open, double click that little red “FFv” icon in your system tray. In the list of stuff on the left, tick and select “AviSynth”, then fill it out as per this screenshot (don’t worry, you’ll get the text to copy and paste in a moment).

The text is:

mon_width = 1280.
mon_height = 800.
##############
tar_width = mon_width
tar_height = 1.0*mon_width/width*height

(tar_height > mon_height) ? Eval("""
    tar_height = mon_height
    tar_width = 1.0*mon_height/height*width
""") : last

spline36resize(int(tar_width)/2*2, int(tar_height)/2*2)

Please change the first 2 lines to reflect your monitor’s horizontal and vertical resolution respectively. It is important to leave the full stop (.) at the end of the line. Now click OK on that dialog box. You’re done. Return to your video, full screen it, and enjoy the properly resized video and crisp subtitles.

But wait! I don’t use ffdshow, I use CoreAVC!

Not a problem. Go to your MPC HC options and do this:

Then select it in the list and click the “Prefer” radio button.

Restart MPC HC and play a video and you will now get the red “FFv” icon in your system tray. Now follow the instructions from the top of this post.

Happy New Year!

’tis 2010/01/01 00:37 here.

Hope you all have a Happy New Year! Join us again next year!