Your Anime file type preference?

I have noticed MKV very popular in the anime vids for some reason. I do find them annoying as well. You could always convert them before putting them on your ipod/ps3 .

MKV is the least compressed, and therefore best quality, open source format around, its quality beats hands down avi and mp4/mpeg.

It’s used expecially for blurayrips because of its quality and for anime because it allows for multiple audio and subtitle streams.

As for not being playable on ipods and playstations: welcome to my world, i spend evenings fucking around on the internet waiting for my new ipod videos to convert.

The truth is that there is no point in releasing an inferior quality file for everybody just to appease the 20% – 30% that want to use them on ipods, and releasing rendering HDWMV is something only windows users can do decently, and even there it’s iffy. MKV is a dependable format that can be easily converted to anything else starting from an uncompressed, and therefore high quality, source.

By the way if you crack your ps3 you can watch any kind of video on it, i hear.

MKV rocks because it enables you to have multiple different subtitles and audio streams in one file, you do not have to supply separate subtitle files and you do not have to hardsub the video, which would require reencoding every time you change the subs a bit.

tl;dr, MKV is awesome.

I fail to see why MKV is really a problem. Then again, my video player of choice can play damn near anything. I could probably slide 8mm film into the cooling vents and MPC:HC would probably play it!

And with conversion tools like Handbrake, MediaCoder, SUPER, and others around, I never have a problem transcoding to something I can use on my TV, iPod, or any of my computers.

@jerv: i am capable of running the file type on my cpu but thats not the way i WANT to watch it, i’d like to see it off my big screen tv i payed lots and lots of money for and use my playstation to run it while still maintaining my psn network online status…and this one file type always irritates me because a majority of the time people do not label the file type in the torrent.

@tifa You mean that you cannot find any way to convert it to something readable by a DVD player or gaming console, like Super or NERO? And you also lack HDMI outputs on your PC to use your big-screen TV as a monitor like my buddy’s folks do with their old 3GHz Pentium 4, a cheap video card, and a 42” Samsung?

Maybe it’s just that I know too many ways around it, or that I am spoiled by the cheap ($180) Phillips home theater system I have that can read PC file formats like AVI, DivX, JPEG, and MP3 even if you just copy them to a USB Flash drive and plug it into the front panel, or that I am too used to transcoding stuff.

Regardless of the reasons, I really don’t see an issue here. Sorry, but I just don’t.

I use whatever I have to use to get whatever video I want onto whatever screen I want to watch it on. Maybe it’s AVI, maybe M4V, maybe VOB, maybe whatever the Sandisk Sansa uses in their converter, or maybe I just run it in whatever format I got it in.

guh theres no arguing with you rich kids…. yes you are that spoiled, i believe i’ve spent enough money and i really don’t think my time should be wasted on converting it because already spend enough time as it is to download the damn thing, its not like don’t already pay enough for internet connection

Rich? A $500 PC, a sub-$200 home theater system, and some open-source freeware downloaded on a $20/month DSL pipe and I am rich? You probably spent more on that TV than I did on my computer hardware, home entertainment center, iPod (which I got it in a trade; no money changed hands) and my car (a Craigslist special) combined, and you call me rich?

Look, I am trying to help you out here!

I spent most of my life (which, I’d wager, is many years more than you have) doing things as inexpensively as possible out of necessity. I would not have made the recommendations I did if they would be a drain on your wallet since I do not give advice that I myself would/could not follow.

So calm down a little, listen to what I am saying, and realize that there are at least three ways out of your situation that cost nothing, and at last a couple more than cost less than $20 if you don’t want to expend a little time and effort.

ok im sorry, but you gotta realize my computer was free, custom built by friends that were nice enough to make it for me and its super cheap, and yes my tv is probably the most expensive thing i own aside from my car which the payments im making on plus insurance are killing me so i can’t exactly go around throwing too much

Ok so is your problem that you don’t want to pay to change the format or is it that you want others to do it for you?

It’s not the rest of the world’s problem if you want to watch your fucking anime on your ps3, so if the problem is the second one i’d suggest you deal with it, MKV is a superior format and people are going to use it because those who upload torrents do it for everybody and not only for people who buy Ps3s.

As for converting easily to formats you can use: http://www.transcoder.org/. The settings are streamlined as fuck, you can only pick presets and there are downloadable presets for anything with a screen, and it easily processes any format, MKV included, you just can’t cock it up.

1) Install it
2) Set up a job queue
3) Start it
4) Go to work
5) Come home
6) Find it done
7) Thank me
8) ????
9) Profit!