I download my animes, especially the ones I really like. However,
I don't like the fact that the subtitle group I follow (erai-raws)
don't released under 480p. To be fair, it's a personal preference;
I just don't like having bloat and I find 480p at around 500mb is
just too much for my liking, especially when I see other releases
that has seasons of anime under 1GB.
I haven't messed around video for so long so I don't really know why,
I could almost understand TV shows but anime should always be in the
lowest spectrum.
So I started to convert all of my media files into 360p.
With this, I am using FFMPEG and I'm offloading the work to my 2nd PC.
First I tested it out, by converting Ahsoka MKV files into MP4 and it worked
great so I then ran it on an anime that I just finished but as soon as I check
the video, there was one part missing... the subtitles.
After doing some google-fu, I didn't really find a good solution so I just
decided to re-encode into MKV as well. I ran it and the video size was great
(400mb to 70mb) and I didn't really lose quality and I still have the subtitles.
Currently, I am working on a custom Powershell script to handle batch processing.
It's nothing fancy, run the same line of code but includes a 25sec pause to give
the computer a break. I tried to run a brute force convertion of a whole season
but it crashed midway. I am hoping the pause is enough to give the processor a
break but not lose the automation of the whole process.
The Next Day.....
So it seems that FFMPEG has some issues with weird/long filenames so I end up renaming
the files into simple filenames (01.mkv, 02.mkv, etc). I did it this way because the
script I wrote ends up taking the original filename and using it for the output file so
I have a episodic progression. As well, I wrote the script to pause for 2 minutes before
going in for the next try - there seems to be a pause midway but I think it's because of the
computer rather than program because when I run the script in my daily driver, I don't have
that pause like that.
Now to go through 10k worth of anime LOL.
loren ipsum