Today I Learnt That Pirated Software Runs Better Than The Legitimate Version I Almost Blew Ninety Dollars On
This post is about piracy. If you do not condone piracy, stop here. If you don’t care, are from the GNU legal team, or otherwise find this shit hilariously entertaining, then carry on.
So, this morning, I made a PERSONAL BACKUP of the first bluray volume of Xam’d of the Lost Memories. TO my horror, I came across gods damned DTS-MA audio, and adversary I had encountered on the Eureka seveN movie as well, but previously ignored.
Ofc, there is no open source decoder for DTS-MA, and, for some reason unbeknown to me, my Sonic decoder was broken in wine. So I turned to the next alternative: ArcSoft’s massive lump of shit that includes an HD audio decoder. I almost spent $90 before I realised I had a copy of it somewhere that came with my sister’s laptop. So LEGITIMATE SOFTWARE ON MY PC.
Needless to say, it didn’t work very well. Or at all. I messed around with it for a few hours before giving up and downloading a torrent, but it’s ok because I have a VALID LEGITIMATE SERIAL CODE. Suddenly, it worked. So basically the moral of this story is pirating shit works better than using the proper software, although for legal purposes I’d suggest “paying for it properly and then pirating it and using your legit serial,” lol ensuring I don’t get sued by the GPL people.
In the end I got annoyed with shit fucking up and ended up just installing Sonic on a client’s Server 2003 box and encoding the audio on there. Additionally, this entire exercise was useless because what leechers are going to care about 24bit FLAC anyway? It’s 1.33GB for two episodes. ONOES TALKING ABOUT FANSUBBING.
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Who cares about 24bit FLAC? ME! ME!
I’d probably download the episodes if it was something I wouldn’t mind watching again. Xam’d was good but I don’t think I’d rewatch it.