No.46491
>back up Jin-Roh to external hard drive years ago
>check it again
>English subs file has gone missing
No.46492
>>46491
Was it an mkv? If so that shouldn't happen.
It might be your media player. What are yo using?
No.46495
>>46491
bitrot strikes again!
No.46502
>back up 300 GB worth of anime on external hard drive
>year later internal hard drive crashes, buy a new one and replace it
>grab my external one so I can put my favourite anime back on my pc
>it had stopped working because I dropped it on the floor once
No.46503
>download a 8Gb BDrip of an anime film
>comes with .mka and .mkv
>wut
>no subs on the .mkv
>.mka is just audio and subtitles but no video stream
>readme says to mix them in some Linux program
Fuck that
No.46504
>>46502
That's why you back up on either a RAID 1 or 10 with no less than 6 SSDs.
>>46491
It's a sign from the anime gods that you're supposed to have learnt Japanese by now.
No.46505
>>46504
>learning a dead language
lmao
No.46506
>>46492
>>46495
>check the file again
>they've magically reappeared in the .mkv
I could have sworn there was a separate .srt file for the English subs and panicked when I could find them or subs bundled inside the .mkv, yet here they are. Either I'm completely retarded for missing a .MKV's default English subs and misreading 2 as 1 multiple times or God has a weird sense of humour.
>>46504
Don't use SSDs for a backup, when they fail the entire drive shits itself and recovering data is way more difficult.
No.46507
>>46503
>English subtitles come in a zipped .rar file that can only be opened by programming your own Linux kernel in a timespan of 24 hours after downloading or else it will install a virus on your PC that wipes your hard drive
I fucking hate it when they do this.
No.46508
>>46507
>your own linux kernel
pic related, its you
No.46513
>>46509
What do you want me to use, ffplay? Xjadeo?
No.46514
>>46506
That's why I said RAID 10 with at least 6 drives.
Means it can take up to 4 full drive failures without data loss. And SSDs last a lot longer than HDDs.
Granted, if 5 drives shit themselves at the same time, you're utterly boned.
No.46516
>>46514
If you have shittons of money or a small collection of 480p rips, sure.
No.46518
>>46503
Is MKVtoolNix not on Linux? It isn't that hard to use.
That said, I really do fucking hate it when torrents separate audio, video, and subs and then expect you to mux them. If you can rip a disc, compress the assets, and subtitle something, you can also fucking mux them at the end. I don't know why some subbers do this.
No.46527
No.46532
>>46531
>linux
>on the desktop
No.46534
>>46531
>>46532
I dual boot so I can do work and play!
No.46536
>>46532
>Proprietaryware
>Literally anywhere
Install Gentoo.
I bet you pay for your anime, too
No.46537
>>46531
>he uses an OS that makes it unneededly more difficult to watch anime just so he can boast about it on /tech/
But seriously, there's nothing wrong with Windows 7, I never installed any of those telemetry updates and at least I don't have to waste time on finding out how to play a fucking video file.
No.46538
>>46535
I cut off all the fingers on my right hand because they make me a pussy. I learned how to adapt to doing everything with my non dominant hand and a stump. Who needs full function?
No.46539
>>46536
>pirating anime
your literally scum
No.46540
>>46539
>buying anime
>giving money to (((licensors)))
No.46541
>>46539
Get a load of this guy.
No.46542
>>46539
>he doesn't steal cels straight from anime studios before their respective episodes have even aired
Look at this pleb.
No.46543
>>46539
>>46540
>not pirating the anime and then sending anonymous money envelopes to the animators' personal mailboxes
No.46544
why don't we all get along?~
No.46546
>>46542
Are you a time burglar?
No.46549
>>46543
>not using the money to buy your personal master tape of the anime
No.46550
>>46546
Yes, I'm a time traveler from the 80s named John Titor, I am searching for a Linux kernel that can properly play video files like Windows 7 does.
No.46551
>>46550
Wrong timeline, man. Go back further and change the past then come back.
No.46554
>>46551
Actually, I'm from the timeline where Hitler won the war. I was sent on a mission by the Reich to investigate the primitive technology of this timeline and more specifically, the Linux OS.
No.46568
>>46537
Nah, Linux is much easier for watching anime. You don't have to hunt for codecs or anything like that: most distros are bundled with ffmpeg and if you don't like the default media player it's piss-easy to install one through your package manager. Windows only pretends to be normalfag friendly but all this comes crashing down the minute something breaks and Microsoft's ugly, inconsistent mountain of complexity rears itself, and you're stuck with performing arbitrary voodoo rituals which may or may not work for reasons no one understands (including Microsoft, which forbids its programmers from fixing bugs unless they involve security holes).
>>46532
I'd use OpenBSD if my GPU supported it.
No.46574
>>46568
>falling for the /tech/ FUD
didn't think to find a genuine retard on here
No.46581
>>46568
>he thinks you have to hunt for codecs on win7
No.46584
>>46574
That's the problem with self-discovery: sometimes you don't like what you find.
No.46586
>>46568
>download MPC-HC
>literally never encountered something it couldn't play out of the box
No.46591
>>46586
use MPC-HC black edition its much better and no lag when switching audio streams or subtitles like in the regular version.
No.46595
>>46591
>black
>we wuz media players n shieeet
no thanks
No.46596
>>46595
black is a color, niggers are the color of poop
No.46599
>>46586
>>46581
>operating system comes bundled with a sub-VLC tier media player with Microsoft's godawful codecs
>has to manually download and update his favourite software or use janky per-application updaters instead of using a package manager like a sane operating system
Real amazing, anon.
No.46600
>>46599
>muh packet managers
enjoy installing software that is years behind the latest release
No.46602
>>46599
>mfw I don't need to read a textbook to read my emails
No.46605
>download anime
>put in electronic device
>problems
Damn yoooouuuu, pessocoooons
No.46608
>>46502
>current year + 3
>not having 2 backups with all your precious cartoons, anime and pornography
No.46610
>all this winvspenguin shitposting
how many of you have a desktop with unpozzed win7 to play all your illegal japanese pornographic games and a laptop with penguin os to watch all your illegal pornographic japanese cartoons and shitpost?
>>46543
shitposting aside, I always wanted to do this, send some care packages and stuff to the nips.
No.46613
>>46600
>worried about using the latest of everything
>switches between manually updating and juggling separate update software for all his software
>has to strawman all Linux distros as super stable to justify his wasted time and system resources
>>46602
>clicking an icon or typing in a program's name needs a textbook
You guys aren't very good at this. Here's your (you).
>>46610
I have a Windows 7 partition for testing software builds, my non-native vidya runs nicely in Wine+DXVK and emulators so the Windows partition barely sees any use.
No.46615
>>46610
I physically cringe at the thought of playing video games. I'm glad I grew out of that.
>>46613
>Here's your (you).
Thank you my good sir! *tips fedora*
No.46636
>>46599
>the default player is bad installing MPC with LAV decoders is hard!
>manually updating 2 or 3 programs in 5 minutes is hard!
Why are linux fags so stupid? Was linux always secretly made for autists who can't into basic shit?
No.46640
>>46615
>I physically cringe at the thought of playing video games. I'm glad I grew out of that.
GET OU…
oh wait, this is /animu/
No.46641
>>46636
Linux fans just think that different = better. It's why you still can't draw circles in Gimp.
No.46642
>>46636
>hard
Not really, it's a waste of time and effort you could put into other things.
No.46659
>>46503
ffmpeg -i video.mkv -i audio_sub.mka -c copy complete.mkv
That easy anon.
No.46661
>>46641
>It's why you still can't draw circles in Gimp.
Drawing circles in GIMP is easy anon! You just get the ellipse select tool and use it to draw the ellipse, pressing and holding shift to force it to be circular (being sure to press AFTER you begin putting the ellipse down), then going to menu->Select->To Path, then going to the 'Paths' dockable dialog (enable it through menu->Windows->Dockable Dialogs->Paths), right clicking on the path you've just made from the selection, then Stroke path…, and choosing how you want it to look. Just make sure to have canceled the selection before you stroke it. Stroke it with the paintbrush tool for extra fun variations!
No.46662
>>46661
That's pretty clunky but it's to be expected from Gimp's slowpoke devs.
No.46674
>>46663
Install Krita if you want circles so badly, fag. Gimp has them but they're just hidden under clunky UI design.
No.46675
>>46674
What if I want both circles and a functioning text tool?
No.46687
>>46675
Get used to Gimp's clunky circle drawing circle select > selection to path > select path > stroke path, something you'll barely even use after all this bitching, learn to program and write a decent text tool for Krita, or fuck off to proprietaryland. Expecting developers to drop all their bugfixes and unfinished features to give you your wishlisted feature right now is retarded, especially when most of them are volunteers.