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Q: What is Toonami?
A: In short, Toonami is a TV block on Cartoon Network that shows
action cartoons. The weird looking robot guy you saw on the main
page is Tom, Toonami's hosts. For more information about Toonami,
check out CNX: Toonami
Revolution.
Update: As far I can tell, we no
longer have Tom on the front page. (Did we ever, or was this
answer just from my old Basement site?) Anyway, back to the
questions...
Q. How do I play
the movie files?
A. You need QuickTime
5 for a lot of the clips, RealPlayer
for a few, and an MPEG player for some. Chances are the MPEG player
is already on your computer.
A2. For Linux users, check out Mplayer in order
to view all the videos on our site.
Q. How did you
make these movie files?
A. We use the Sorenson 3
video codec for Quicktime. It's an excellent codec with all sorts
of nifty features which make it perfect for low bandwidth encoding.
Sorenson was kind enough to donate a copy of their software to
us for use on this site.
Q. How did you
make those spiffy music videos?
A. You first need a video capture card to get video from the TV
or VCR into your computer. You also need to find a song to put
behind the video. An editing program is needed to splice video
clips together with the audio. We've used iMovie (Mac only) and Adobe
Premiere. Premeire is the popular, complicated program, and iMovie is the easier program.
Please don't e-mail us asking for help. We're not experts in any way.
Q. Why don't you have any Adult Swim stuff on your site?
A. Because ASF does.
ASF is our sistersite and provides everything Adult Swim-related much like TDA does for Toonami.
Q. What is a DivX
file?
Q. When I play an avi from your site, my player says something
about no appropiate decompressor. What's Wrong?
A. DivX is a hacked up msmpeg4 codec. It provides excellent quality,
and can be played on almost any platform. Go over to the
DivX ;-) homepage and snag a player or the codec for your
particular operating system. If you're interesting in learning
how to make your own DivX files, head over to DivX
Digest and read some of the excellent documentation.
Q. Hey! Why is
there no sound?!?
Q. Hey! Why is the screen white and nothing playing?!?
A. You need to get QuickTime 5 to view almost all the movies on
this site. You can get it from Apple Computer at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
Q. Why is the
video choppy?
A. Probably because your computer
is slow. A 400 Mhz Pentium or a 300 Mhz PowerMac is recommended.
Q. Is the glass
half full or half empty?
A. It's a half glass of water.
Q. When will you
update again?
A. Why don't you check back often to see?
Q. There are a
few Toonami MP3s on the Toonami.com website. Want me to E-Mail
them to you so you can put them on your site?
A. We're not going to steal content from the official page. If
people want to listen to the songs, they'll go there.
Q. If a plane
crashes on the border of the US and Canada, where do you bury
the survivors?
A. Djibouti. They have no laws against burying undead there.
Q. DEAR TOONAMI:
[insert anything here]
A. Sorry, but we don't work for Toonami, Cartoon Network, Time
Warner, or anyone else associated with Toonami. We're fans, just
like you. So please don't send us emails that should be going
to toonami@cartoonnetwork.com
Q. I have a movie
file of the opening to the original Gatchaman. Can I send it to you?
A. YES!!!!!!!!!!
Q. Where do babies come from?
A. Sausage Factories.
Q. Do you have
a banner so I can link to you?
A. Yes we do, and here it
is.
Q. I can't seem to find the (insert show that we have here) section.
A. Look at the side of the screen. See that downloads button? Check there.
Q. What programs do you use to make your site?
A. Tyler uses Adobe Pagemill for Mac and BBEdit Lite, Zogg uses whatever
text editor is handy, and Pepito uses a bone dipped in blood. (Be sure to note that Tyler does
most of the html and Zogg does all the dynamic coding.)
Q. I have a cool site, will you link to it?
A. TDA isn't a link site. While we understand that you want to publicize your site as much as possible, it would be too complex for us to manage a link page and have to make decisions like "This site is good, this one isn't." As such, we've just disavowed a links section. If something we find strikes our fancy it may appear in a news update, but those urls NEVER come from email submissions.
Q. I have a horrible, ugly generic anime site, will you link to it?
A. That depends. Wait, no it doesn't. No.
Q. I need a webhost of some sort, will you host me? or...
I made a donation to your site, will you host me?
A. Sorry, we don't host other sites. Although it would theoretically be possible, we've decided that hosting other sites would get extremely complex in the event that the site became too popular or posted objectionable material. And, while we are VERY grateful for the donation, web space on TDA is not for sale.
Q. Can I ... Be on TDA staff / Write a column for TDA / etc
A. At this point in time we're not looking to add to the TDA team. In the event we decide we need more than the current 3 staff members, we'll make a public search of sorts for new staff.
Q. I have a GREAT idea for a music video! Can you do it for me?!?!? Q. I made/am making a music video. Will you host it? Q. My question
is frequently asked. Why isn't it here? Q. Is there a possibility I might get a virus from your files? Got a question that's not answered
here? E-Mail us!
A. No. We don't do requests. If one of us has a music video idea, we'll do it. Otherwise, no.
A. Maybe. We need to take a look at videos before we even think about hosting them. If you can post a version of it on a free server, we'll download it and decide then if we'll put the video on our site.
A. Probably because we forgot about it. We'll post it sometime.
A. To the best of our knowledge, there aren't any known ways to embed in a virus in a Quicktime movie file. So... you
probably can't get one from us.
Tyler L. or Zogg