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[brigdh]

Hey, remember that Romeo x Juliet anime, with the swordfighting and the crossdressing and the awesome? The first episode is now available with subtitling here! (On Megaupload, which I hate, and if it doesn't work for anyone, let me know and I'll try to upload it on a different server.) I only downloaded it last night and haven't had time to watch it yet, but I thought I'd go ahead and spread the love. If you do not remember, by the way, you can watch an excellent trailer here; it's from the makers of Gankutsuo (The Count of Monte Cristo remade as space opera) and will apparently be a retelling of Romeo and Juliet, except Juliet dresses up as a boy and Verona has been transformed into some sort of lovely anime-esque city on a floating island with crumbling ruins interspersed with more modern buildings.

And speaking of love: two people wrote me stories for my birthday! Squee! Y'all are too sweet. And kind.

You Are the Seal of the Burning Year by veleda_k. Saiyuki, Sanzo and Goku, G. This is lovely and sweet in that totally not-sweet way of the series, and the Sanzo-voice is spot-on.

Scripted by ranalore. Saiyuki Gaiden, Kenren/Konzen, Kenren/Tenpou, PG. Oh, such pretty, pretty language and images, and so totally hot.

Eee. I'm so happy.

Comments

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Can you get the Romeo x Juliet file to play? I downloaded it with no trouble, but I can't find a player that'll run it on any of my machines.

If it's working for you, what player are you using? I may be forced to resort to burning it to disk and then trying it on a Windows machine. Which I have access to just at the moment, since yesterday morning we finally found out that the Cyprus thing was on, and that the travellers were leaving today. I suppose I shouldn't install software on other people's computers, but the temptation is very, very tempting.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I hadn't tried to play it, so I hadn't noticed a problem, but I just tried and couldn't get it to work either. I finally found that if you download and install something called the Combined Community Codec Pack (http://www.cccp-project.net/) it will play on any player- or so it says, I tried it on Windows Media Player and that worked, at least- but there doesn't seem to be a version for Macs. Apparently you could also use the mega codec off of the K-Lite Codec Pack, but again, there's only a Windows version.

I know Kessie watched the episode before it was subtitled, and she has a Mac, so you could try asking her what she did?

As long as it's not a virus, you could always uninstall once you're done, and no one will ever know. *grins*

[quixotic-sense.livejournal.com]

The mkv (Matroska) file should be playable with VLC media player, but depending the codec used by the fansubber it may not play very well -- Matroska was developed for Windows. The alternative is downloading the Matroska Quicktime Component (http://sourceforge.net/projects/matroskaqt/).

Personally I loathe the mkv format, but it seems to be all the rage now. Some fansubbers generally come out with mkv and avi versions of the same fansub.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Weirdly, it will start to play on my older version of vlc, but then it crashes with all kinds of improbable error messages. My current version of vlc won't open it at all, and mplayer insists there's something wrong with the file. And yet, that seems highly unlikely, what with other people being able to watch it and all.

But I didn't know about the quicktime component. I'm going to try installing that and see whether it helps -- although if the documentation is correct, even if it does it won't show the subtitles.

It wouldn't bother me, I don't think, if I knew for certain that it just wouldn't play on a Mac. But this thing where I should be able to make it work, but somehow not, brings out the dysfunctional obsessive in me.

[ravenbell.livejournal.com]

Oh, the joy of fansubs. :P I use the VLC Media Player with

The K-Lite Codec Pack (also comes with Media Player Classic, which should play those soft subbed MKVs)
http://www.codecguide.com/about_kl.htm

and the CCCP Codec Pack
http://www.cccp-project.net/

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pointers. It was worth a look, but sadly for me those are Windows-only packages.

Strangely, I have an older version of VLC that will begin to play the thing, but it records errors and then crashes. And the players that I have that should be okay with Matroska all claim that there's a problem with the file. But if Brigdh has it working, I somehow doubt that this is really true.

There has to be something that will work. There almost always is. But then, perhaps this is simply the universe's way of reminding me I have a story to write, and should not even be trying to look at the damned thing now.