So we decided on releasing a complete batch with all the series in it, and here it is. All files are patched with any updates that were made.
All future reseeding of this series done by us will be of these 4 torrents only.
Update by anonmylol: Now in HEVC as well, including the missing NCOPs, NCEDs & Picture Dramas. This is something like a trial run, so we appreciate your feedback. If you have trouble playing the files, try updating your player, most should already have HEVC support.
HD: Zero no Tsukaima (Seasons 1 – 4) [Doki][1280×720 HEVC BD FLAC]
HD: Zero no Tsukaima (Seasons 1 – 4) [Doki][1280×720 Hi10P BD FLAC]
HD: Zero no Tsukaima (Seasons 1 – 4) [Doki][1280×720 h264 BD FLAC]
SD: Zero no Tsukaima (Seasons 1 – 4) [Doki][848×480 h264 BD AAC]
For everyone having trouble with this torrent not DLing all 4 seasons, they are available at BakaBT.
All 4 seasons are there.
You just need to move it to your root directory. Character limit stops them from showing cos of length of files+folders. From there you can move/rename whatever.
Sounds like a problem on your end. I just checked using Bit Torrent and it clearly shows all 4 seasons there, took less than a second to see too.
Please seed!
You guys mind seeding your 480P batch? Only need about 700 MB left. Please and thank you.
Does anyone mind seeding this?
Can someone see this?
HEVC? thats a first for me, does any new version of K-lite media codec pack support this? i wanna go try it. 🙂
Yes, K-Lite, VLC, XBMC (Kodi) support it already. Other players probably too, but these are the ones I tested.
^thanks, i’ll go try this. 🙂
Ranma 1/2 1080p (1440×1080) HEVC INCOMING!!!!!!
testan on MPC-HC + madVR (Kawaii Codec Pack) setup as bloatgirls recommends or maybe not I can’t remember.
Works fine. No subjective nor objective difference from the previous encode apart from the file size. I take it this was encoded with the main 10 profile (M10P). The future does look promising.
Very rough cpu usage on i7-4770k:
h264 -> 3-7%
h265 (HEVC) -> 5-10% (a bummer as it will drain my SP3 battery quicker)
Also MPC-HC crashed a couple of times while moving the window from one monitor to another but I guess that is a MPC-HC issue or maybe even a problem of my system multimonitor setup.
Latest SMPlayer redxii beta builds (http://sourceforge.net/projects/smplayer/files/Unstable/redxii-unstable/) seem to play it without a problem.
Better use K-Lite Codec Pack. It’s included MPC-HC and all codec if you choose Mega version. Currently use K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 10.9.1 on my computer and I already tested (HEVC) version of this anime on my AMD A8-5550m APU and it’s work fine without any issue. Make sure always update the codec.
HEVC?
Meh gonna pass, that codec is still in development, it’s missing lots of important features.
As best you could say it’s in alpha stage.
which one is better?
HEVC or Hi10P?
Looking at Zero no Tsukaima F 720p ep 1 file sizes:
h264: 634 MB
Hi10P: 571 MB
HEVC: 278 MB
If you can play it (CCCP 2014-04-20 plays it fine on Phenom II X4 965), HEVC should be the best.
First time heard bout HVEC, gonna try it out. Thanks doki
Looks like this HEVC thing is amazing, only ~3% more CPU usage (i5 4690) with 2x smaller size.
Just finished watching this series again about 20 minutes ago, if only this HEVC stuff could’ve been released 3 days ago :0
HEVC is new to me
but I’m going to pass that ver
i’l grab Hi10 ver and Thank you
Surprised to see so many people not know about HEVC (x265). It’s nice to see groups doing test runs (seen a few test releases by p2p movie groups) but it’s far from ready for mainstream.
It’ll take off once 4K starts becoming mainstream and you get hardware decoders for it.
I can’t wait, and it’s nice to see groups doing test runs here and there. Always fun to play with new toys 🙂
I don’t think anime will be released in 4K any time soon, lol.
And it shouldn’t be because then I’ll stop watching it.
also I’d like to ask the Doki encoder, how much longer did the HEVC encode take vs 10bit using the same (or similar) settings?
I guess I’m saying it would be cool to make some comparisons or thoughts public while doing these tests…. you know.. nerdy stuff.
Good questions!
Btw: on MPC-BE x64 – v1.4.3 svn 5780 -beta no problems to report.
Nice release, and happy new year to all!
HEVC is excellent, and I hope you use it for future releases as well.
why call it HEVC and not h.265?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#Standardization
“The project had tentative names H.265 and H.NGVC (Next-generation Video Coding), and was a major part of the work of VCEG until its evolution into the HEVC joint project with MPEG in 2010.”
Need to upgrade archive… Thanks!
What’s the difference between Hi10P, h264, and HEVC?
I don’t know much about video formats.
If you don’t know much about video formats, I won’t confuse you–think of it like this: Hi10P will have a smaller file size at the same quality as a h264 file, but it will be harder to decode, thus taking up more CPU (but not much, especially with modern computers). HEVC is like the same thing, but more–an even smaller file size at the same quality (according to Wikipedia, it can be about half the size of a h264 file of the same quality), but even more resource-intensive to encode. If you have any relatively recent software, you should probably be able to play them all with no problems. I recommend KCP.
Sorry, I meant decode, not encode.
H264 (aka AVC) is the video compression format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H264
Hi10P is a profile of H264 that specifies 10 bits per sample of decoded picture precision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H264#Profiles
HEVC is the new upcoming replacement of h264 (aka AVC): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding
What does that mean to you?
Standard 8bpp H264 (sometimes written as x264) is the most common, especially among movies. It also enjoys hardware decoding support from many devices.
10bpp H264 (aka Hi10p or 10 bit) is usually more common among anime releases. Typically allows for smaller filesize, less color banding and generally better overall quality compared to the same 8bpp encode. No hardware decode support, limits playback to PCs and similar devices with enough CPU power to decode via software.
HEVC (aka x265) is a very young format and still very rarely used. Right now the most you’ll find is people testing it out. Playback is more demanding than both 10bpp and 8bpp files. No hardware decode support and limits playback to PCs and similar devices with enough CPU power to decode via software.
Hmm. Haven’t heard or HEVC before. Sounds good. But I already have all the seasons, fully patched, and I’m not gonna re-download the whole series, even though reduced filesize does sound nice, and I’m sure my software and hardware can handle it. Maybe I’ll try it in the future if you release a new series in HEVC. 😛
ZnT had only 3 season. ZnT F just din’t happened.
Thanks for batch.
Aw, don’t be so tsun. It had some really good moments, totally worth watching.
It had few good moments, if you forget about novels, then yes, it’s worth watching. But if had readed books…