You can stream MKV files. I use mpv (http://mpv.io/). Just start it and drag and drop a link onto the window. For Solidfiles, use the "direct download link" on the Solidfiles page, not the Solidfiles link from Animetosho. I have also tried streaming with other hosts. Usersfiles will work, but you can't seek.
VLC should also work in the same manner. I have also tried MPC-HC with KCP, but it tries to download the entire file ahead of time.
Catch-22: If you're an anime fan, you probably keep up with new releases, so 60 days is more than enough. If you're not a fan, you're probably not going to spend an extra $15/month (USD) on top of your Internet bill just to download old anime releases.
Exactly. For example it would take the "DameDesuYo", "Working!!!", (maybe the "02") and "1080p" from the torrentname "[DameDesuYo] Working!!! - 02v2 (1920x1080 10bit AAC) [444B976E].mkv".
The server is mostly disk bound, so I'd expect a naive split would be more intensive than a PAR2 calculation (which shouldn't incur much disk activity I'd think, unless the calculation requires multiple passes).
Well if splitting isn't important, that makes things easier. So the process is probably: generate PAR2 -> upload -> make NZB. Assuming the upload process is a single disk pass, there's a bit of unnecessary overhead with PAR2 generation, but it doesn't look like there's a tool which can do on-the-fly PAR2 generation without additional disk reads.
(I'm guessing that SFV files aren't that important with PAR2 verification and CRCs in most filenames)
Downsides of Usenet would be that users would need paid accounts, and the increased complexity with using it. Still, the ~8 years retention claimed by these providers sounds somewhat too good to be true. We'll have to see how it pans out, but I'm willing to give it a try.
Oh, so basically the idea is to display the original torrent name, but, when possible, add some spacing between the group name / series so that they line up (like columns)?
When you click on an entry it expands to show all the informations shown in the picture at Charlotte. Then you can click on the "Complete" of Solidfiles for example and you get directed to the one click hoster.
So this would mean 2 clicks until you download it. So yes you dont see the downloads directly on the Main page.
For convenience you should also consider RSS Feeds^^.
Instead of trying to guess the series with a script I was thinking about simply taking the show name from the torrentname aswell. For 90% of the cases the shows name is after the ] bracket and lasts till a "-" or "[".
The other 10% could use white / black design similiar to nyaa's style and use the torrentname instead for the whole title.
Splitting the files isn't important, today most people have more than one usenet server and block accounts so PAR2 generation isn't as important as old times... of course is nice to have 5% of redundancy just in case. Of course PAR2 generation is heavier than splitting/archiving on .7z but I don't know how much it will increase the post processing load that you already have. My opinion is that will increase the longevity of the anime uploaded at least 2500+ days.
you can also try the Hide Remakes option in the Nyaa filter on the AT homepage, although the results might purge too much out for what you want.
looks like deanzel's has been upgraded from orange-Nyaa-Remakes to white-Nyaa-Normal in his last release. sounds like getting over Hepatitis-C, for some reason...
In theory, the 1Fichier-encrypted links won't expire, as they are part of a separate premium account set up by admin to try for some longer term storage solutions. But a similar setup didn't work with other services previously, so we'll see.
To filter the fansub group and the Anime name from the torrent name shouldnt be so hard for most of the major fansub groups
Most releases do follow a similar format, but (ignoring outliers) there can be some complications at times. An example: "Teekyuu - 50" gets labeled as "Teekyuu" whilst "Teekyu S5 - 50" is labeled as "Teekyuu (2015)", even though these should be the same. The script could be a bit more intelligent with detecting these cases, but they're ultimately quite hard to solve.
I suppose most people won't really be put off by this, so probably not really a concern.
That's an interesting idea actually. I've never used Usenet unfortunately so don't know much about how it works. I looked at some guides on how to post files and the process seems a little convoluted, which is a bit worrying. There definitely won't be RAR support (might replace with .7z), so there probably won't be split files if that has any importance (is it important?). Will also need to see how much load the PAR2 generation has, as well as the posting process - am hoping that it doesn't thrash the disk too much. From the looks of things, I should be able to just get a block account and get unlimited uploads.
Do you have any recommendations on how uploads should be posted?
one thing I'm not clear on: in your design how many clicks until download? Do I have to tunnel down to get to download service choices? In the current AT page un-split files are one click to the dl service. One click is good, more than one is bad.
Hmm my idea was to use it for the Main page. I agree about the episode numbers being quite hard to get (especially for batches) so maybe it should be removed or not show for torrents with multiple files.
To filter the fansub group and the Anime name from the torrent name shouldnt be so hard for most of the major fansub groups so maybe the design could change and show a white / dark torrent box for torrents which do not fall into the major fansub groups which then shows the torrent name.
For the resolution it could be easier to just use ??? until the torrent is completed or not show the torrent at all until it is completly downloaded (or like you said just make it a seperate page).
animetosho should mirror to usenet also and post a .nzb because it will have a very good retention compared to free hosts and people could get the release easily.
I believe one or more of the AT dl services used to offer streaming playback, but I don't see that option anymore. So I was going to direct you to another anime site that specialized in streaming but they've dropped streaming as well. Don't know why.
You're better off if you download, watch and delete. Streaming playback has always been low bitrate regardless of user connection speed and used crappy software like flash that relies on hardsub conversions.
There's some pretty interesting ideas there. The design looks really good for mobile devices, something that AT's current design doesn't really try to accomodate. I presume that desktop users would just get borders on either side?
I don't really want to get too technical yet, but I thought I should point out a few things though:
- Splitting the group name and anime name is nice, but difficult to automate reliably (especially episode numbers), so something based on ugly torrent names may need to stay Perhaps this could work better as a separate page rather than the main page? i.e. a page that groups entries together rather than showing a raw dump of all the torrents available
- The resolution idea is pretty cool. Unfortunately the script can't determine the video resolution before a torrent is complete though. There's also some complications with batches containing multiple resolutions, but some heuristics might solve that Maybe split incomplete entries off elsewhere?
I'm not particularly good at evaluating designs so can't really comment much unfortunately. Thanks for the sketch and your interest!
Not saying that HTML parsing is a proper solution (since it can break if the structure is ever changed), but just wanted to mention a tip: The IDs directly match with AniDB's so perhaps you could use their API if it helps. The anime ID from a series page will be the number after the '.'. You can then use this number to query AniDB for a list of episodes and their episode ID (eid), then just plug it into the following URL structure:
Of course I know it is not perfect but the basic idea is that the option button on the top right expands to the bottom which shows the entry options (like 720p and so on) which turn a darker color when selected. Also if you click an entry it expands again to the bottom and reveals all the information which is currently loaded with a new page.
If a rewrite of the site is happening, one thing I would like to see is tags. Not so much for anime genres, but for the release format - stuff like resolution, 10 bit, audio channels, soft/hardsub, reencode, etc, and then make it possible to filter out stuff you don't want.
If you need to find older releases without torrenting you have a couple of options: -Anime-Sharing.com forums. Their links stay up a long time. -XDCC. I reccomend using Hexchat as your client if you don't already have one. Just connect to a channel, and write "/msg [botname] xdcc send [filenumber]" Here's a few packlists: http://xdcc.utw.me/ http://doki.co/releases/xdcc/ http://intel.haruhichan.com/ http://kyou.x1n.pl:8000/ http://vivid.moe/xdcc.htm
My guess is some database issue on their end. Their admins would have better answers, but my speculation is a database backup. You may notice that #710169 is dated 2015-07-10, 16:28 UTC, whilst #710170 is dated 2015-07-11, 03:34 UTC (about 11 hours between consecutive IDs).
The public download services we use generally delete the files after 60 days or so anyways. To create a more permanent archive, we would need expensive private servers instead of free public ones.
We have tried name scrambling and file encryption at times to avoid immediate deletions, but I'm not sure we would say it made much of a difference.
Just sine 2 cents, for the most part I think this site is good, however there's this problem with links dying especially with old releases. May I propose that you hide links behind a link protector like ncrypt and maybe rename the files to something less obvious.
It looks like the database at Nyaa has gotten messed up, accidentally or otherwise. I don't think it has affected our downloads. For example, right now the last/top listing on Nyaa is [Mori] Wakaba Girl - 02 [60202D17].mkv, which we downloaded 9 hours ago. And we have had other newer Nyaa downloads within the last hour.
If you find a Nyaa torrent that we didn't get, note it here, please.
Comment in Feedback 11/07/2015 03:46 — Anonymous: "Alhambra"
What happen on Nyaa? Looks many recently uploaded torrent already deleted.
Nyaa seems lively at the moment. Are you sure you connected the wires to the detonator correctly?
Oh, I see... It's a database mess over there, isn't it?
Our last Nyaa-only entry was about 1 hour ago, which post-dates deanzel's note. So it's hard to say yet if our Nyaa updates are going to be interrupted.
15/07/2015 00:37 — Anonymous