anime episodes online

[danaeris]

So if I downloaded an anime episode from somewhere online, how many Megabytes would it take up? I'm trying to figure out if it would fit on a 128 meg memory card, or a 256. Of course, it would be re-encrypted by Kinoma, so that might shrink it some more.

Anyone know of anywhere that has anime episodes for download?

Comments

[digitalsidhe.livejournal.com]

Depends on the format, the codec, the pixel size (naturally, 640x480 is going to take up more room than 320x200), and the length of the thing (half-hour, full-hour, longer?).

IME, MOV and DivX give better compression ratios than stuff like WMV/WMA.

Sorry I can't give you any better information; surely there are some videogeeks out there with better data than mine.

[danaeris.livejournal.com]

Well, that's why what I'd really like to do is download an episode and encrypt it for the format I'm testing. But I don't know where to download such an episode; my initial searches led me to hentai sites that boxed me in and I had to quit internet explorer. :(

[earthdragon.livejournal.com]

I've never actually done it, but I've heard from those who know(last years doomed frosh), that IRC is the place to download anime.

[deyo.livejournal.com]

As a general rule, expect a medium-quality 640x480 pixel video to consume 10MB per minute of footage. You can cut that in half for lower quality. Thus, a half-hour episode (22-25 minutes play time) could fit on a 256MB card at medium quality, or on a 128MB card at low quality.

And I get all of my video from usenet, but I don't know how well that would work for non-smut features. ;)

[danaeris.livejournal.com]

That sounds right. Actually, the Kinoma movie player on the Tungsten E encrypted a 60 second trailer for a movie at the highest res the pda can handle, and it was 5.9 megs. So it is sounding to me like it is promising that it could fit hires on a 128, and definite that it could fit at low res. So maybe this movie player WOULD be useful on a PDA after all...

[hastings1066.livejournal.com]

Anime episodes run between 80-300MB depending on what kind of episode. Something like Macross Zero (an OAV, that is fat and 48min long, AC3 audio, is 325MB), but something like random TV Show (say Azumanga Daioh, or Gunslinger Girl, 24min) will be ~120-215 depending on the codec settings used, it will very very rarely be over 256MB. a 128MB card IMO would be too small a good 40-50% of the time.

My sample size at home is ~1000 episodes, so I have a little data...^_^

If you are looking for something in particular...*smirk*