All our releases, with a few exceptions, are encoded in XviD with CBR MP3 audio.
For Makoto Shinkai projects (Beyond The Clouds, 5cm Per Second) we use x264 and AC3 to maximize the quality of his work.
Starting with Nanoha StrikerS, all our future series releases will be in the H.264 format because of the size and quality benefits.
For XviD, you have a few choices:
a) Use Nic or Koepi's XviD binaries
b) Use the ones built into mplayer or VLC
c) Install a codec pack like CCCP or K-Lite Standard
Either of the three will work for most of our releases.
For H.264 you can use the following combinations:
a) ffdshow and a media player of your choice (Most successful, but eats CPU)
b) CoreAVC, AC3Filter and a media player of your choice (Fastest decoder, low CPU usage)
c) VideoLAN player
d) CCCP codec pack
First, don't be like this guy.
Then, check your codecs to make sure you have one of the suggested ones in the question above installed. If the video still won't play, then try checking the integrity of the file by downloading our OFFICIAL scarywater torrent file and opening the file in question inside uTorrent or Azureus.
For those of you who are having problems with our H264 releases:
If you are having trouble using CCCP, try reinstalling the codec pack. If you are using CoreAVC, try replacing it with ffdshow. If you are using the codec provided with Nero, we can't help you.
