Still Alive
By Jasio
Published: April 9, 2008
I'm still alive! Anime-Wiki is moving along nicely and closing in on 1000 articles of "true" content. A few months back Jasio.Net became involved in The-Junkyard.Net and now fully hosts the gaming network. Hopefully some interesting things on the horizon. Read More...
Redesign
By Jasio
Published: October 20, 2006
The website has been redesigned, and the backend has been updated. Anime-Wiki.Org has been coming along very nicely, with the website being just shy of 500 pages of content. Read More...
Minor Updates
Published: April 6, 2006
The website went over another redesign. Some sections were moved around, but nothing extensive. The news page now displays only 3 articles, the rest are archived to reduce scrolling. The Anime-Wiki.Org project is moving along quite nicely, and gaining popularity. All seems well.
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Still Around
By Jasio
Published: October 25, 2005
Eh, after a few days of downtime, the backend has been upgraded once again for Jasio.net in order to fix some bugs and decrease load-times (more efficent code-base). Apart from that, Anime-Wiki.Org (www.anime-wiki.org) aka. Daifuku Project is still around, and it's doing fine, albeit updates are rather slow, at least something is happening. I also added a Anime-Wiki.Org forum section in order to address any wiki specific issues. The long-dead Air TV forum was also removed because it is no longer needed. Meh, that's about it, I guess.
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Theora Theory - The Forgotten Codec
By Jasio
Published: August 30, 2005
Hmm,
It seems many fansub groups are jumping at the idea of using H.264 to encode their videos with "greater quality." What they fail to perceive is the legal consequences of their actions, and the fact that they can be easily sued from within North America and Europe for patent infringement and failure to operate the encoder with a license, and without paying royalities.
Other's claim, X.264 is the "free" implementation of H.264 and boast how invincible they are. Wrong again.
This excellent article located here: http://www.anime-wiki.org/index.php/Editorial:Codecs Goes on to explain why H.264 is a bad idea.
Is there an alternative to H.264? Of course there is, and it's called Theora. A *free* open-source video codec developed by the Xiph Foundation. It makes use of 2 patented technologies, VP3 and On2, however both VP3 and On2 have provided Theora with an IRREVOCABLE, FREE license to use Theora in both commercial and non-commercial environments. What does that mean? It mean's you are not infringing on any international copyrights and patents, nor are you expected to pay any licensing or royalties.
So why don't fansubbers use it? Because they generally lack any sort of common sense. And that's a fact.
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