Note: this article has nothing to do with video, releases or whatever else you usually care about, I’m going to talk about typesetting. If you don’t know what it is or don’t care – stop reading right now.
As you might know, there’s the haruhichan guide to 10bit, which is apparently one of the most popular playback guides lately. It’s more or less right but there’s one problem – the author (nand) suggests you to use internal MPC-HC renderer (ISR for short) to get the most awesome 10bit playback.
After getting a couple of complains about our bakemonogatari typesetting and reading some derping about broken TS on different forums, I decided to at least explain things to nand since he seemed adequate and might want to update his guide. I joined CGi channel and showed him two test samples on which ISR used to fail.
“If you’re analpained about test cases, aspect ratios or watch anime with shitty typesetting, use a different subtitle renderer like xy-VSFilter. Be warned though, the subtitles will be very blurry as a result. I recommend waiting until it supports madVR’s overlay hooks like MPC-HC does. Alternatively, don’t use subtitles (thanks tp7 for the suggestion)”
…What? I was a bit surpised with this stupid update and figured I’ll explain things to you myself.
