Guardian coming to Viki

[naye]

The popular streaming site Viki has licensed Guardian, and is now listing it as coming soon on their site. It's unclear what this will mean for the availability of Guardian on YouTube.

Comments

[extrapenguin]

!!!!

If nothing else, it might mean better subs? Viki's subbing teams are, well, teams, with multiple people who go over the timing and translation. (IIRC they also count as semipro?) The real question is whether it's the original cut or the edited cut, where a bunch of blood, guts, and Ye Zun was removed.

[naye]

All excellent questions! I have no idea, but anyone who wants the original cut might want to download it from YouTube now just in case.

[daroh]

so what's on youtube now is the original cuts?

Also, I've DL'd them but I think they're saved to the YouTube app on that device and so would be gone from my device if they were taken down? I guess I need to figure out how to export them...

[naye]

Yes, YouTube has the version that originally aired on Youku. The edited version has been censored for violence and villain redemption, apparently?

Good luck saving the files! I used third party software to download them to my harddrive with the subs in a separate file.

[daroh]

Yeah, I'll look into that! Thanks for this heads-up!

Also, I'm glad to know I watched the original cut. :)

[teaotter]

How do you download the subs? I can get the videos off youtube, but my 3rd-party downloader doesn't catch the subtitles.

[naye]

4K Video Downloader lets you choose which sub tracks (if any) you want to download, and saves them as separate files.

[teaotter]

Cool, thank you!

[trobadora]

I've been using this for individual subtitle files:
http://www.lilsubs.com/

[lannamichaels]

JDownloader will grab subtitles from youtube.

[maggie33]

That's exactly what I thought - that the subs will be better, but it might be the edited cut. I downloaded the original from youtube last year, but I would love to watch it with better subtitles. I guess we'll see soon. :)

[mecurtin]

The link says they're looking for volunteer subbers, so I'm going to talk to solo about whether to port her subs over there.

[extrapenguin]

Since they're mostly edited from others' subs and/or machine translate, I doubt they'll take them in. I guess you could ask, though.

[tinny]

They don't usually take external subs. And their teams really usually are pretty good, so we'd have two independent subs if we let them do their thing. Which is better, I think!

[trobadora]

OMG! Thank you for sharing.

[naye]

Viki is so popular just its availability there might draw new people in!

[lynndyre]

Cool! I'm interested to see how some things get subbed. I hope it is the full version, and I hope it continues to be up on Youtube, though, it's easy to rec to people casually there.

There's also a giant archive of all original eps and original subs on MEGA, just in case anyone wants that for backup- I don't know who the original compiler was.

[winter_blossom]

Ooh, that's really helpful, thanks!

[in_the_bottle]

Oh, I was looking for a mass download of all the eps without doing it one by one on YT after trying to find a 3rd party downloader, so this is really handy, thanks! :D

[benbenberi]

There are other shows on Viki that have EngSubs also available on YouTube (e.g. Nirvana in Fire), so it's possible nothing there will change. But of course, not guaranteed.

[winter_blossom]

Whoa, better go get the original raws from YouTube asap, then! A lot of the series I've seen on Viki aren't available on YT, which looks pretty ominous to me. And none of the 3rd party downloaders I've tried can correctly capture files from Viki, either.

Though more exposure is definitely a good thing, if it's the cut version there isn't much point, since some of the most poignant scenes (like parts of the last battle and the finale, WTF?) were cut.

Thanks for the heads-up!

[clevermanka]

Thank you so much for the heads-up.

Does anyone know of a Shen-Wei-levels of technical illiteracy tutorial for using a downloader that will grab the subtitles? I...might've dropped out of IT in 2001 and never looked back. eeep

[naye]

For 4K Video Downloader I only have the paid version, so it's possible the free version has a few things it can't do... But I think this should work?

1) Download the program, and install it by clicking on the downloaded file
2) Open the program
3) Go to Episode 1 of Guardian with subtitles on YouTube
4) Copy the URL
5) Go to 4K Video Downloader and click "Paste Link"
6) The program will now parse the information and let you know if you've accidentally copied something else instead (this step might take a while)
7) A menu with options like resolution (higher is better!) and subs (pick the English) will appear
8) After clicking the things you want you have to browse around your files to decide where you want it on your harddrive
9) Go to Episode 2 of Guardian, repeat
(If you have the paid version it can pull all the videos on a playlist for you from one link, so there's no need for the repeat!)

[clevermanka]

BLESS YOU

[teaotter]

Just so you know, if you only have the free version and download with a playlist, it won't grab the subtitle files for you.

Or at least, I can't figure out how to make it happen. *sobs*

One at a time works perfectly, though.

[teaotter]

Just so you know, if you only have the free version and download with a playlist, it won't grab the subtitle files for you.

Or at least, I can't figure out how to make it happen. *sobs*

One at a time works perfectly.

[xparrot]

Ohhh, fascinating...maybe will get us another round of fans? \o/

[naye]

The real question is if Viki licenced the original cut, or the one they put back on Youku after that second round of censorship.

What regions?

[mecurtin]

I can't see any of the trailers on Viki, it says it's "not available in your region." (US) Who *can* see it?

[tinny]

If that means it will go off Youtube, that would suck immensely.

But that didn't happen with Suddenly This Summer nor with Dreamlike, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will be the same here.

I already have all the eps, so it doesn't make a difference for me. (although... if they are in better quality on viki, that might be worth it. If they're the uncut versions, which I *highly* doubt. But I finally have a VIP account at viki after four months of hard work, so... maybe that will come in handy at some point, after all.)