rankafan

So I was wrong, it isn't the song subtitles causing the problems, it is the animation in the song subtitles! So for some reason WMP doesn't show those animations so the episode plays just fine there. I wonder if there is a way to turn off those animations... That is a little more advanced for me than just deleting subs... At least they play fine in one player, I don't have to do anything then.

And that, folks, I'm sure, is really why Thora hardcoded those karaoke-style subs: not to annoy you, but because these Advanced SubStation Alpha style subs are essentially 'scripted', in practice meaning half of the players out there either can't do em at all, or can't do em fast enough real time.

got this from the THORA site:

"Get an IRC application. Open it and type “/server irc.rizon.net” then “/join #thoranime” without the quotes.

Now, on this website there is a tab on the top that says “XDCC List” CLick on that and you’ll see three names (Thunder, Chikara, and Arutha) Thes are the bots where you get the files from. Click on one of the links next to the name to see the list of files. Find the file you want and look at its number (such as #35)

Back on the IRC client look at the list of names and right click on one that has the same name of the bot you want(Thunder, Chikara, or Arutha) and select “open new dialog” Once there type “xdcc send 35″ and it will send #35."

thing is, i've only successfully downloaded ep22.

ep19 and 20 stopped with "Transfer incomplete", and with ep 21 and 23 the xdcc query seems to be completely ignored.

haven't tried again, so hope somebody can also shed some light on this.

better yet, i hope somebody puts these up for torrent.

Or simply type:

/msg THORA|Thunder xdcc send 285

In the stats window. Also, I was able to get all eps just fine, this way. You need a recent mIRC client, though.

the well seems to have dried up, at least for subbed BD rips.

anyone got news on subbed BD rips of ep19-25?

Indeed, this is quite troubling. I haven't seen any new THORA subs on the xdcc server, either. I sure hope THORA hasn't given up on this project yet, or we're humped.

Direct-download of THORA subs from anywhere seems nigh-impossible for the past few months. I found most of the eps up to 13, but 14 was taken down almost the moment it went up (my fave ep of course) and haven't been able to find it since.

Have you tried their IRC server too? I was surprised I could download everything (see post above) without speed-caps even.

P.S. Cute image of Grace O'Connor, BTW; she's so delightfully devious!

Could some kind soul seed Thora subs ep 19 and 20 on a torrent please?

Why on Earth would you want that? You can download them from their IRC server 100x faster.

There are hundreds in the channel. You are either in the wrong channel / server, or they need you to be registered. See http://www.rizon.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=18 (use a throwaway free mail address)

For download tutorial, assuming you are using mIRC: http://www.anime-hq.org/irc.php?page=download

Thanks. got it all working now. Right channel, wrong server, after all. I found the new eps 19 + 20 here:

/msg THORA|Chikara xdcc send #233

/msg THORA|Chikara xdcc send #234

EDIT:

Turns out Chikara doesn't have ep 19. So, the correct xdcc numbers are:

/msg THORA|Thunder xdcc send #233 = ep 19

/msg THORA|Chikara xdcc send #233 = ep 20

That should be the right channel, and I am getting my line speed at 500KB/s from their bot.

This must all sound rather daft to you guys, but I'm kinda new to these matters.

So, how does one go about msg-ing such a bot? Seems I'm the only one on channel, and how do I ask it for a file?

Thanks!

I saw ep 19 and 20 on their IRC server. Apparently they enforce a 50kB/s download rate, so if you can achieve that, it's worth a try.

You mean #THORAnime@irc.rizon.net? There's no one on there, it seems.

Using torrents, it's apparently gonna cost me a ca. 2 weeks to get the THORA eps downloaded. Doesn't someone just have the THORA subs (just the subs) for eps 10-18? Or knows a subs-only torrent thereof?

Thanks!

Really? They're doing their own? I thought it was mostly A/M/G with a little bit of some of the other subbers...

I guess expressed myself somewhat inaccurately. I should have said: "THORA does its own edit." I just think their 'finish' is better than that of other fansubs: nicely matched for Blu-Ray timing, for one, less spelling-errors, better positioned Karaoke; I dunno, I just favor their end-product.

Speaking of which, where have the THORA subs gone to?

http://getfansub.com/wiki/Macross_Frontier

All THORA links as of ep 10 seem gone. Now I'm screwed.

Keep reading...there's a Blogger address there...you'll want to click that.

I'll do that. Thanks.

Not yet...it looks like they're using the Aone/Menclave subs...so there should be more soon. Aone's up to...what...21 now?

I really hope THORA will continue to make their own subs: I have everything from THORA up to ep 10 now (ordered the rest of all Blu-Rays the other day, too); the Aone/Menclave subs -- please, don't shoot me -- were not entirely on par with THORA's work, IHMO.

P.S. What's with this?

"February 7, 2009: The Complete Macross Translation Project has begun!"

Okay, who's doing the translating? And where can I download 'em?

I honestly wish the THORA subs (for eps 10-14, and all, really) would become available other than through torrents. I love Macross Frontier, but I'm not gonna run a trojan-ridden p2p network just to get the subs, and, worse, get the RIAA busting down my door because of it. p2p networks are rapidly becoming illegal anyway.

Besides, I don't want to download gigs of episodes, either: I have the Blu-Rays; I just want the THORA subs!

So, if someone would please be kind enough to upload these subs to rapidshare or some such, I would be most grateful.

Thanks

Finally, I found them here today:

http://getfansub.com/wiki/Macross_Frontier

Seems like a good URL to bookmark.

For what it's worth, I was about to shell out for a full-fledged home theater pc when I came across this:

WD TV

You just connect any usb hard drive to this thing, and it can spit video out over an hdmi cable in 1080p. It does read subtitles from mkv containers, but it isn't as nicely formatted as MPC can give you and it's kind of hit and miss with some codecs (particuarly DTS encoded sound ... hoping the next patch fixes that) ... still, for $99 I'd recommend it to anyone.

Anyway, anyone looking to save yourself a LOT of trouble re-encoding these things just to watch them on your TV might want to give this a look.

No offence, but it looks pretty crappy to me. Seems they go out of their way to avoid saying they support no HD audio of any kind: just DD 5.1 (and even that is questionable, as the specs say Dolbly Digital is only output at 2 channels!). And, no DTS, from the looks of it, either. Let alone multi-channel LPCM; or any LPCM variant, for that matter (Macross Frontier = LPCM 2.0!).

So, I won't be ditching my PS3 for this piece of fei-oo any time soon.

I honestly wish the THORA subs (for eps 10-14, and all, really) would become available other than through torrents. I love Macross Frontier, but I'm not gonna run a trojan-ridden p2p network just to get the subs, and, worse, get the RIAA busting down my door because of it. p2p networks are rapidly becoming illegal anyway.

Besides, I don't want to download gigs of episodes, either: I have the Blu-Rays; I just want the THORA subs!

So, if someone would please be kind enough to upload these subs to rapidshare or some such, I would be most grateful.

Thanks

Thora Just release the Ep 11-15 Subs

Thora, if you're reading this, you're the man!!! Thank you!

I think that might depend on the rate at which the disks are released. I also thought he was using a combination of Menclave's and Shinsen's subs for the actual subtitling, which may pose a problem after disk 4: Neither of these two groups bothered to sub anything past ep 15, which was put out (very very late, I might add) all the way back in October. And that was after a very very long break where nothing came out from either since around the Sep 1. Strange that neither group has listed it as a "dropped" project, but clearly no one is bothering to do much work on it, at least.

Anyway, agreed: Thora (whoever you guys are) deserve a massive thank you from the MW community, and from english-speaking Macross fans in general. Now if we could just talk you guys into releasing 1080p versions I'd be in heaven ...

Seriously, though, if anyone hasn't checked these out, you absolutely must. The encoding - even in 720p - is just breathtaking and light years ahead in quality compared to the earlier fansubs (which only had the HD television broadcast to work with). You should see it in motion on my 52" screen ... holy moly.

Macross Frontier, Blu-Ray disc 5 has already been released. So, i really hope THORA and team will continue subbing.

To whoever it may concern, just a small observation on the ottherwise superb THORA subs:

In Ep. 7, there's an unprintable character (appears as just a box), at:

Dialogue: 0,0:01:02: Please-

The dash character was an unprintable variation thereof. And here, in Ep. 10,

0,0:19:25: All right, here we go! Scene 47, Cut 11

I think this should probably be Take 11.

Have you checked their IRC channel?

Thanks. Didn´t even know they had an IRC channel. I did, at long last, find the subs, though, at:

http://getfansub.com/wiki/Macross_Frontier

So, I'm fully up to speed now.

N.B. Sorry for being 'difficult', but with all the crackdown on p2p networks, I'd rather not install that stuff. Nothing beats a good old-fashioned download.

While I'm at it, can the THORA subs be downloaded other than via torrents? I found Ep. 1-7 of the THORA releases posted on usenet, but can’t seem to locate 8-10 yet.

Thanks

Agreed.

http://www.thoranime.org/

A most useful link, thank you! Man, it sucks being an anime newbie. I have to learn all these great resources from scratch; but this link definitely goes into my Favorites.

Just get THORA's subs since they're timed right for the Blu-Ray releases and they're absically taking the best from each subber and amalgamating it into on sub.

Thanks!! His subs rock! Impeccable timing and positioning. There's even annotation inside. Incredible! I can't imagine how much work must go into making these, but I'm very grateful to you subbers out there!

And for a cool extra bonus, I changed the .ass file to display at 1920x1080 (because I'm reencoding the Blu-Rays at 1080p, with hardcoded subs, so I can stream em to my PS3), and the subs look actually much better positioned than they do at the 'original' 720p setting.

Anyone has a script of the Deculture Edition with the ending song and the preview?, I already built the complete script with an incomplete one and replaced dialogues with the Yack Deculture Edition Script from Thora for consistency but I can't find those last 2.5 minutes translated

Please, if you, or anyone else, still has the English subtitles for the Yack Deculture Edition (as found on the Blu-Ray disc), I would be for ever grateful. I can't find them anywhere.

Yes, even though I know who the green-haired girl is, LOL, I'm still a noob. Very much so, actually, as I've just recently begun to expand my interest for anime. Sorry 'bout that.

Okay, so I bought the 4 Blu-Ray discs of Macross Frontier, as I got a good feeling about the show. I read here people are actually learning Japanse. I'd love to do that too, but it'd probaby take me the better part of a century to master the language. So, in the interim, I'll settle for subtitles.

Which is where my question comes in. I'm currently doing a high-quality reencoding of the Blu-Rays with hard-coded subs, in a streamable format for my PS3. I found several mkv files, by AonE-Gekkostate-Menclave (I take it those folks made the subs?). It has nice Substation Alpha subs in them. Just what the Doctor ordered. I already processed Ep. 1, but I can't find the subs for Episode 1, the 'Deculture' version. So, I was wondering whether someone could point me to them (assuming they exist at all).

Much obliged.

EDIT: On rapidshare, I found:

http://rapidshare.com/files/133649829/_Q-R...tion.part01.rar

But it seems password protected. Sigh. So, does anyone know the password for it?