Black Waltz

To all our dear BT.net Mac users, if you’ve been having problems watching those lovely and gorgeous HD animes that are abundant on BT.net, I have some wonderful news for you!

Some of you might already know about all this, but I’ve just found out about it a moment ago. Guess I wasn’t that free huh, and when was the last time I made a post here too…? ^^;; This might not apply to all our Mac users, but those not using the newer Macs might benefit from it.

So, I’ve been having problems playing some of those sweet 720 and 1080 animes, and I’m using a MacBook Pro 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo with a ATI Radeon X1600. It’s about 2 years old now, but it’s still not that crappy yet. The most ironic part is, I’m dual-booting Windows 7 RC1 on my MBP using Bootcamp, and the HD stuff plays fine there with CCCP and CoreAVC, what the heck! So I’ve been watching Tears to Tiara on Windows for the past few days… Bleh.

Finally, as i was searching around for some VLC skins and mods, when I came across an unexpected discovery! Apparently, someone else is creating an up-to-date version of MPlayer, called MPlayer OSX Extended! And I also rediscovered NicePlayer, which has been updated a lot!

So (the old) MPlayer, VLC and Quicktime with the Perian plugin has been my 3 main video players. Now I can discard MPlayer in favor of MPlayer Extended, and NicePlayer takes over Quicktime.

I’ve tried playing the same Tears to Tiara files that were choking my MBP with the older players, and now I can play them fine with MPlayer Extended and NicePlayer as well! Banzai! Have been considering upgrading to the newer Macs, but all those thoughts just flew right out the window. Heh.

Was tinkering around with the server yesterday, but all seems fine now. Will update the FAQ section with my new discovery later.

Oh, and if anyone will be going to Daicon tomorrow, I might just cross path with any of you and not know at all. lol. Have a great weekend, mina-san!

EDIT: squatted by Riogi:

07 Ghost – 14;
Bakemonogatari – 01;
Basquash – 14;
Bleach – 227;
Clannad AS DVD – 25 (misc);
Dragon Ball Kai – 14;
FMA Brotherhood – 14;
Hatsukoi Limited – 12;
Hetalia Axis Power – 24;
Kanamemo – 01;
Kemono no Souja Erin – 20,21,22;
Koukaku no Regios – 24 (U);
Minami Ke OVA (misc);
Naruto Shippuuden – 117 (WBU);
Needless – 01v2;
Pandora Hearts – 14 (U, WBU);
Phantom – 14;
Princess Lover – 01;
Saki – 14;
Sora Wo Kakeru Shoujo – 24;
Spice And Wolf II – 01;
Tears To Tiara – 14 (WBU);
Toaru Majutsu no Index Tan – 02 (misc);
Valkyria Chronicle – 14 (WBU);
Weiss Survive – 04 (WBU);
When The Seagulls Cry – 02;
Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei – 01 (within the Zoku dir.);

written by Black Waltz \\ tags: anime, faq, News

znsinger

Well, I’m back. The truth is, Starfi3ld wanted these posts of mine to have anime news, but I told him I didn’t really follow. Which is true. Still, I felt a little bad – so I found this article and copy pasted it for you.

Grapes of Wrath to be Fifty Episode Epic.Studio Gonzo has announced just this week their intentions to convert American classic ‘Grapes of Wrath’ into a fifty episode epic anime series. “We’re running out of good, solid novels on this side of the ocean,” the director to be, who asked to be un-named, told the news at the time. “They’ve almost all been done here, and the rest refuse to negotiate. Some of the attempts got fairly ugly, there were some very rude references to previous works and even a death threat or two from fans of the original pieces. So we decided to look elsewhere.”

Grapes of Wrath, in addition to having a long standing record as a Great Novel, has the added advantage of no longer falling under copyright laws (present legislature states a written works copyright expires at fifty years). This combination proved an irresistible lure to the anime companies material seekers, as economic downturns make not having to pay the exorbitant fees authors have been demanding as compensation of late a major factor. “It’s a very thick classic, but we can work with that,” the director stated confidently. When asked about the studio’s background and familiarity with the work, they confessed that, prior to it’s selection, there had been none, but that proper research has been done. “We tried to read the book, but we couldn’t do it. So we took the suggestion of two college interns we had at the time and got copies of the Cliff Notes for the whole staff. They have all been required to read it, and progress with the script is expected to go quickly.” The students refused to be named or interviewed.

Asked about planned directions, the director was happy to enlighten us. “I can confidently state that rolling waves of dust have never been so realistically rendered,” he enthused. “And action scenes -  you have to have action scenes. I don’t know how the book managed without them. We probably would have been able to read the original if there had been action scenes.”

A release date has not yet been determined.

Credit for this article goes to ANN – not. HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY! (yes, on the other side of the dateline where this site is hosted, that was yesterday – I’m american. So sue me.)

P.S. That bit about copyright laws and fifty years is actually true.

written by znsinger \\ tags: Comedy, News