Are we doing Bakemonogatari 13-15?
Yes. Yes we are. (I’ll be taking over if rintaun seems too busy)

Are we doing Bakemonogatari BD re-releases?
Yes. Yes we are. (I’ll be taking over if rintaun seems too busy)

Are we still doing Drrrrrrrr?
. . . I think we are. (I’ll be taking over once I figure out the project chan)

Will we be doing Kizumonogatari? (I know, none of you asked, but let me feel a little important)
Hmm………….. Considering that I’ll be retired by the time that airs and no one else in the group seems motivated enough to do anything atm, it’s quite possibly a no.

Edit: I will make sure that we will be working on it. ~Chief of the Staff Monkeys

Who? Who’s taking over whose projects?
That’s a secret.

Edit by rintaun: Merry Christmas, everybody! XD

Edit by blakbunnie27: Merry Christma– what the shit… no rls?

To start my research, I paid a quick visit to the KMPlayer website. Just as I expected to, I found a countless amount of ignorant fools who were die-hard fans of the player. Just about every rating a person made of the player was 10/10. I knew many people were stupid, but I wasn’t expecting to find that many. For the purpose of my research, I downloaded the installer, and regrettably, installed it on my system. Immediately after, I swooped over to my Sora no Manimani episode 08 and tried to play it in KMPlayer. Well, what do you know? It really doesn’t work. Those ignorant leechers weren’t making things up. In pursuit of the reason for this failure, I explored through my files (Btw, I suggest you to spoil yourself with Everything if you don’t already. You’ll find yourself graduating from windows explorer.) for the Sora no Manimani episode 07 file to play in KMPlayer. Surprisingly, it worked, except not really. When I mean it didn’t really work, I mean that this is what the subtitles looked like under the default settings (Well actually, it looked worse. Since I couldn’t take a screencap of the frame with subtitles, I recreated the situation in aegisub, and aegisub managed to make the edges of each letter to be smooth, while KMPlayer’s arrangement of letters almost welled my eyes with blood.):

Of course, this wasn’t a surprise. Based on my past experiences with the VLCPlayer, I knew these players that use their own set of codecs would disappoint me with their subtitle rendering failures. Looking at the frame, you clearly have no idea which line is the spoken line. GOMPlayer was even worse. For some reason, it didn’t support having two lines with the same time. Basically, even when multiple people are talking simultaneously, GOMPlayer won’t render the subtitle past the first person. In this case, you’ll only see “They have everything 100 yen off today.” in GOMPlayer. Perhaps that’s not so bad; it’ll make things less confusing. But that’s not always the case. If the typeset line was to appear before the spoken line, then you’ll only see the typeset line, being forever ignorant of what was actually being said.

This is how the frame should look like when done right:

What’s this? The dialogue is in a completely different font and different color. Yes; yes it is. And those other two lines are supposed to be placed on the paper? Indeed. I’m glad we’re all experts in the game of finding the difference. We, fansubbers, don’t make strenuous efforts in trying to make your eyes hurt or in trying to confuse you about which lines are the actual subtitle text and which lines are for on-screen signs. We carefully select a dialogue font that will bring pleasure to your eyes.

Now that I’ve educated you about video players that provide themselves with their own unique set of codecs, I believe you see yourself in a new light. My original plan was to end here and recommend you to the Combined Community Codec Pack (widely known as CCCP) and use one of the two default players (Zoom Player or Media Player Classic Homecinema). You may be taken aback by the non-fancy, classic GUI of the MPC, but you should be informed that this media player shouldn’t be judged by its looks; its capabilities just about blows any other media player in the market out of the water. Zoom Player has a fancier finish on the GUI, and it may be more suited to those who just can’t live without eye-candy. Many believe that Zoom Player surpasses MPC in playback capabilities. I, for one, do not know as I haven’t been able to make the switch from MPC to another player.

Here’s my follow-up plan:
While I was playing around with the KMPlayer settings, trying to take a screencap with it, I stumbled upon something you die-hard KMPLayer fans would most likely love. A way to make KMPlayer render subtitles the way we, fansubbers, want you to see. Go into your KMPlayer Preferences and change the settings to look like the following:


By changing your KMPlayer settings to the above, your KMPlayer will be able to render subtitles correctly. However, I will still recommend you to use CCCP which makes use of the Haali Media Splitter instead of Gabest as stated here.

TL;DR: Don’t use any media players that supply their own codecs (VLC, KMPlayer, GOMPlayer, etc) and stick to using CCCP.

Well then, time for me to uninstall KMPlayer and GOMPlayer. And while I’m at it, I recommend you to use foobar2000 for music playback. The sound you get out of it is just plain beautiful. Plus, you gotta love adding global hotkeys.