What's this? --- This is a new entry to the already long list of _"Bad Apple BUT on [...]"_, and once played, at a first glance, it doesn't seem that different. A full name of this entry would be "Bad Apple but on vectorized soft-subtitles drawings" or "Bad Apple but it's ASS". This is also a full-length version of the track, compared to the original video, which was a shortened edit. And yes, you heard it right, this time it's not fake "pixels", it's full on vectors. **And it actually plays!** How? --- * First, multiple sources were used. The original shadow art, and a recreated version of a "live" full-length show, which follows Μμ's long storyboard version. * The audio track comes straight from the Lovelight album release, which is the full length. * Frames were traced into SVG, either automatically after writing some scripts following a palette of 4 / 9 shades of black/white, or manually in some cases. * Transitions between original and recreated footage were patched and edited, as the recreation was too rough and noticeable. * A full Karaoke + translation track was timed and styled, and included into the output. * SVG frames made of simple curves and lines were translated to Dialogue entries using svg2ass. * Then, all of this was built into a packaged .ass file that now spans 700MB, with early builds taking around 500MB. * The Matroska file has this muxed in, with the original track, and _zlib_ compressed. If your player doesn't support this, fix it yourself. * Note this is the second project of this kind, as first proof of concept had just black/white frames. And could be played on the web directly! * Also, these are true vectors. Scale your player all you want, you won't get to see pixels! (But maybe some gradient issues). * **There is a commentary track that includes a few more details, see the bottom for more details.** How does it look? --- * It surprisingly looks good. This is one of the best test-cases for this process. * It plays on most players, and although heavy, does not require a supercomputer to render or playback realtime, but works on mid-to-low spec. * If you can pick a player, use _mpv_. Works great. ffplay via -vf won't let you rescale to see the full display. * VLC, although working, has some flickering issues _(just use libass ffs)_. * If testing, make sure you have the subtitle track enabled, as well, that's where the good stuff is at. * Because it can be rendered at any resolution, [here is an 8K render of it uploaded to YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFwrJU0n63Y).  Are you ok? --- * If you have not realized already ([[1]](https://nyaa.si/view/1099393), [[2]](https://nyaa.si/view/1097157), [[3]](https://nyaa.si/view/962982)), no. * This continues a bit of my research of what is possible using just ASS. * I can say: "WOW, this looks like ass!" * This is not even a main project or whatnot, but a small side project from an even worse one. * It took just six days to make, including first version prototype, but that time was spent mostly editing and patching out frames. * Who would make a toolset for a one-off project? Maybe _End of Daylight_ is going to be next :) Did you know the subtitles are also a shell script? --- You can run the subtitles directly on Linux(?) systems and it will try to use either _mpv_ or _ffplay/ffmpeg_ to play itself. Nothing else is needed, as audio is included in the subtitles. #### You will have to extract the track first: - `$ mkvextract '[?] Bad Apple!! (feat. nomico) [Full PV][ASS FLAC][Vectorized][BAADF00D].mkv' tracks 2:bad_apple_nomico_fullpv.ass` - This was done using `mkvextract v45.0.0 ('Heaven in Pennies') 64-bit` - Sadly _ffmpeg_ mangles the output when extracting, so it will add Windows newlines (instead of Unix) and mangle/reorder lines in the output that break frames. #### Make it executable: - `$ chmod +x bad_apple_nomico_fullpv.ass` #### Run it! - `$ ./bad_apple_nomico_fullpv.ass` #### Alternatively you can **enable/disable debug + commentary mode** via the same script (subtitles file will be modified by itself): - `$ ./bad_apple_nomico_fullpv.ass debug` - `$ ./bad_apple_nomico_fullpv.ass nodebug` - Alternatively you can enable the extra tracks using `sed -i -e 's/^Comment:\(.*DebugText.*\)/Dialogue:\1/' bad_apple_nomico_fullpv.ass` #### If you can't execute it due to the lack of _shebang_ (could not be included): - `sh ./bad_apple_nomico_fullpv.ass [debug|nodebug]` * sha256 of extracted file via _mkvextract_ is `27b6e79eda18479864493b9f5c15e9330f0d77d2ceebb6b5a62867916bec8f1f`. If you have issues extracting it, you can [download it here](https://mega.nz/file/R1RjhQqB#P13hhIXHZ3j1pdZhG7Cp1HQFwCm9MeBOdTjul2P6cXQ). --- [Mediainfo is here](https://zerobin.net/?e74790300950e1f0#HstXzLoYVCScH9jbHrcxiOHzN/XjHFfyS0bDY90VOEA=)