Encoding

Xam'd is hardsubbed by Funimation and for some reason the US release is two months earlier than the Japan release. This means we won't get archive worth softsubs until September.

Now up until now I've been watching PlaySonPS3's rip/encode, which is good in my opinion. However PlaySonPS3 is dropping Xam'd, and the reigning high def encode seems to be Fabulous. Fabulous has been releasing consistently and fast, and is offered on `Waryas's bots. Unencoded .ts files are also available under the name somedouches. Here's a comparison of the various offerings.



Now its apparent, to me at least, that the words on the Fabulous encode are slightly blurry and hard on the eyes. It bothers me enough that I'm thinking of trying my hand at encoding. Also there's no reason to use mkv over mp4 if you're not going to make use of any of mkv's unique features, and Fabulous is unnecessarily making it harder for people to play their files in OSX by using that container.