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  • How To: Convert 720p 300+ MB Anime Into 90 MB Without Significant Quality Loss

    Most of us can begin to run out of space on Hard disk due to very large collection of Anime that is releasing every day. They are usually 300+ MB especially if they are 720p and these are the only versions who are the best quality wise. This tutorial will guide you on how to convert these Animes into a very nice size of about 80-90 MB without major quality loss.

    Click on Read More to begin the tutorial.


    To begin our encoding lets start first by downloading the encoder that we will use for our encoding. It is totally free so don’t worry.

    Download MiniCoder from links below.

    Installer

    Standalone(No Install)

    After installing MiniCoder run it to begin the process. You will be greeted with this screen.

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    Click on the setting tab to determine the settings we will use for encoding our video. See the screenshot below.

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    1. Video Settings
    They are the main source of importance here. Select a suitable bitrate for the video you are encoding. If you encoding 720p Animes then a video bitrate of 500-550 will be good enough.
    If you don’t want to manually calculate the bitrate and just want to specify a targeted size that you want, select the file size radio button and enter the file size you want, it should be mentioned that the lower the size the lower the bitrate will be so quality will suffer.
    In the quality setting keep it at very high, it will take more time but the quality will be better in the end. Leave the codec setting as x264 as it is the best quality wise.

    2. Pre-Processing Settings
    Nothing to change here so leave them. If you want to resize then you can select any size but leaving it is better.

    3. Audio Settings
    Keep them as they are in the screenshot above or if you want then you can tinker with them

    4. Post-Processing Settings
    Leave them, if you want to remove some noise or sharpen the video then you can change it but it is not recommended.
    The last option for subtitles is for embedding subtitles into videos. They will be hard coded into videos. You can select any subtitle file and it supports majority of the subtitle format.

    After all these settings are done. Select the options tab and you will get a screen like the one shown below.

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    1. In the output settings, specify the output directory where all the converted animes will be saved.

    2. Select priority of process, keep it at normal if you don’t want to use much of the processing power. Keeping it at high will make your PC lag a lot during converting.

    3. Just ignore these options, they are not necessary

    Now we are done with the setting. Click on the Input tab to begin the encoding process. Right click anywhere here to get the option of adding or removing files or you can simply drag and drop the files that you want to encode here.

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    Select your video file and then click on start to begin the encoding process.

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    Sit back and enjoy while it converts your anime. It will take about 1 hour to convert a 720p anime on a dual core system, it will be faster on i5 or i7. Below are some comparison shots of the result Decide for yourself.

    Note: Please Click on Each Screenshot to view it in full size.

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    Original Anime Screenshot 1

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    Encoded Anime Screenshot 1

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    Original Anime Screenshot 2

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    Encoded Anime Screenshot 2

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    Original Anime Screenshot 3

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    Encoded Anime Screenshot 3

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  • TechDeville Partners Up With HomeShopping

    It’s a glorious day for everyone here at TechDeville, we are finally bringing change in our blogosphere in association with HomeShopping. After an entire year of blogging, reviewing, criticizing, and the rest, we have come to a point every new startup wishes to achieve. Seeing how the Pakistani Blogosphere is as narrow as ever, I personally wanted to team up with another big name in our IT Industry and bring change in the way we are perceived and connected with the rest of the world/blogging community. There are just a few hand-picked “bloggers” in Pakistan who conquer the ranks and deny access to anyone else willing to do something better than them or move our industry forward rather than just staying quietly at the same old pace of grabbing gadgets and writing a few words about them.

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    In my personal quest to do something different, I needed ample supply of products at will. In order to make that happen, TechDeville needed the support of a major vendor or distributor of gadgets and other tech-related items. Since HomeShopping is owned by a guy my age, I thought it would be better to talk to him about it, the rest of the companies are owned by over-aged men who know less about the products they’re selling than the janitors who work at their stores. So I emailed him, Shayaan Tahir, the proposal for teaming up and bringing change to the way our people (Pakistanis) see the IT industry.

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    A week later, we were sitting in the offices of HomeShopping and being amazed by the infinite supply of awesome opportunities we have in this direction. We are now the official media partners of HomeShopping, first order of business is to shoot the pilot of our web series (still untitled) and see how that goes. I know the importance of text in the world of blogging and I will continue to write normal reviews along with this, but with priority to the web series. Our first episode is to be shot this Saturday and is going to be all about the new XPERIA phones (excited).

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    We are also going to be taking requests and emails from our visitors, the whole idea behind this new series is to engage the youth with TechDeville. I’ve always wanted my blog to be different from the rest, and doing what everyone else was doing really wasn’t cutting it anymore. Here’s to a better experience and change. Kudos to HomeShopping.

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  • Who Took The “You” From YouTube?

    Think back to 2005, imagine THE video sharing site that had just launched. The magically simple design, the total openness towards choice of content, none of the sad tube-faces saying “Sorry About That”. Call me an old-timer but I miss that Youtube. Where people could actually “speak” their minds without worrying about constantly being flagged and taken down because they used one second of their favorite songs in the video.

    I miss that Youtube, it was about the people. The name made sense back then, now it’s just a corporate reservoir promoting anything that brings in money and forgetting the people who really made it what it is today, the average people, the everyday vloggers, the non-celebrity types.

    While some young vloggers made it to the big-leagues, the rest of them either got their content taken down after the “corporate takeover” or just lost heart when Youtube changed its ways. Yes I admit, Youtube is the third most visited site in the world, it is THE video library of the internet, but that’s not the point, it should just be “Tube” because the “You” left four years ago.

    So who is to blame here? Whose fault is it that Youtube had to implement thousands of new policies and scanning systems within itself to keep itself clean? There’s no one entity to point at. When people are given unlimited options for free, they will always (ALWAYS) take them for granted, it’s in the human nature. When the numbers went up from a mere hundred users to a million and counting, certain measures had to be taken to protect the integrity of Youtube, which meant sacrificing certain promises. The big companies saw no better chance to advertise than from a website which generates, literally generates, millions worth of traffic per minute.

    All the big Youtubers of today make a living off of it, once the money starts rolling in, advertisers see a huge juicy burger sitting on a silver platter. Once the conglomerates started getting wind of how popular videos get on this particular website, they quickly made their camps at the very heart of Youtube. Big names took over the. Genuine fans of singers and movies who uploaded their videos and music just to make their favorite celebrities see the love, had their accounts banned and videos brought down along with a shiny new list of copyright claims by people no one has heard of before.

    A lot of new startups are trying to take over the video sharing market and to bring back the site that was once Youtube. Money makes the world go round, but when it gets so beyond control it starts leaving its origin and roots. We’ve seen this happen with almost every company that’s big now. Google (which owns Youtube) went from being a mere search engine to the god of the internet. With infinite power nothing stays constant.

    Perhaps it’s a part of becoming big, perhaps it’s a necessary evil without which society (the online kind) will not and can not prevail. Youtube does provide entertainment and means of living to countless people, but it can never be the Youtube everyone once adored, now it’s just a necessity none of us can live without.

    I digress, add your thoughts on how you feel about this below.

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