How to get started with creqing: Difference between revisions

These are usually the most easy creqs to make, as you generally do them if you have the file at hand, and notice that things are wrong/missing in the fileentry.

|If a file is censored, you should make sure tihs flag is set. Censored does not mean that there are bleeps instead of swear-words, it means that genitalia or extreme guro is mosaiced/blurred out.

===Audio===

|When it comes to audio, you should check how many streams there are, what languages the streams are in, how many channels the streams are, which codecs the streams use, and what bitrate the streams are in. {{eyecatch|Note:|For each stream, this is usually different!}}

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====Language====

|As some files do not specify which audio language a file has, you should really try to check this by listening to the audio. If you do not know the language, if the file specifies which audio it has, then that is good enough. You can find out which language a stream uses in alot of different programs, but we here at AniDB will recommend the nifty little program called: [http://stud.ntnu.no/~jovetlea/avdump.rar avdump].

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====Codec====

|For finding out which codec an audio stream uses, we recommend that you use [http://stud.ntnu.no/~jovetlea/avdump.rar avdump], but you can also use [[AOM]] if the file is an avi-container with just one audio-stream. If you use AOM for this, you should note that it doesn't specify whether an mp3 audio stream is CBR or VBR. A general rule you can use for this is, that if the bitrate is specified as 112, 128, 160, 192 or something like that, with only 0s as decimals, it is probably CBR. If it has decimals or are other numbers that just seem odd, it is probably VBR. This is not a failsafe rule however, but it is generally accepted as good enough.

|Quite alot of fileentries have missing or bad bitrate information, though for audio it is more common to have than for video; you can and should use [http://stud.ntnu.no/~jovetlea/avdump.rar avdump] to get this information. If you want to, [[AOM]] will also work.

|Most files contain only one video stream, but there are exceptions. If the file you are creqing has more than one, for now, you should add the information about it in the comment field. Also note that alot of players and video-file inspectors won't be able to correctly detect these kinds of things, so you should use a program like [http://stud.ntnu.no/~jovetlea/avdump.rar avdump] to get correct information.

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====Resolution====

|The resolution is specified by the video-stream's width and height, you can use a program like [http://stud.ntnu.no/~jovetlea/avdump.rar avdump] to find out what the exact measurements are; and if the file is in an avi-container with just one stream, you can use [[AOM]].

|FPS stands for Frames-per-second, and describes how many video frames are displayed each second in the video-stream. If the file is in a matroska video container (mkv), the FPS can change whenever the video needs it, so these files cannot be accurately entered here. For most files the frame-rate will be 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, 30 or sometimes even 120fps. In Japan and the US, DVDs and TV-shows are mostly encoded/broadcast using 24, 29.97 or 30fps, while in Europe, 25fps is most often used. So depending on the origin of the file, you can make assumptions about its fps.

|When it comes to codecs, you should use programs such as [http://stud.ntnu.no/~jovetlea/avdump.rar avdump] or maybe even gspot (though this is not recommended, as it reports the FourCC entered, which can sometimes be wrong). In general, avi-containers have DivX or XviD, and H264 is most often encountered in matroska video containers (mkv). These are not rules however, and you should actually check which is the correct codec.

|Bitrates for video-streams are a tough thing to get correct - in fact, there probably is no "correct" bitrate at all, because most different programs report a different bitrate. There is no standard way to get the bitrate. AniDB recommends you use [http://stud.ntnu.no/~jovetlea/avdump.rar avdump] to get the bitrate.

|When it comes to subtitles, there are two major things to take note of: if it is hardsubbed or if it is softsubbed. If it is softsubbed, there can easily be more than one subtitle-stream, however if it is hardsubbed, it would be much more encumbersome to make more than one subtitle-stream.

|Flags you can set should include whether the subtitle stream is especially designed for the hearing impaired, or if it has director's comments in it.

|You can '''add titles yourself''', by just clicking the "Add/Edit: Synonym/Short Title" link at the bottom of an anime entry, and there you can just add the title quite easily; take note that if the title is bogus, you will likely be banned from AniDB. If you want to test this out, you can use the {{a|357|Test Anime}} to do it.

If you want to '''change or delete''' a title, you can only do this through the[http://www.anidb.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=3 DB Change Requests forum], and you should start a thread named something like "<tt>[TITLE][DEL] Anime title</tt>".