NoMercy Media

Static media-asset repository for the NoMercy player ecosystem. Serves as a CORS-friendly content origin for the testbed, the examples site, and any third-party demo that needs working playlists.

All content here is either Creative Commons-licensed (films, music) or used as test material under the original rights holders' copyright (anime).

Rights holders: see Takedown policy below.

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At a glance

Folder	Contents	License model
Films/	16 Blender open movies (2006–2023)	CC BY 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0
Music/	9 Free Music Archive albums	CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-NC-SA / CC BY-ND (per-album)
Anime/	2 test episodes — ASS subtitle + embedded-font fixtures	All rights reserved (test content only)
Fonts/	Subtitle fonts referenced by Anime ASS files	Per-font (see fonts.json inside each show)

Each section has a root ATTRIBUTION.md + ATTRIBUTION.json, plus per-item ATTRIBUTION.md + .json inside each film / album / show folder.

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URL pattern

Consumers fetch over raw.githubusercontent.com:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NoMercy-Entertainment/nomercy-media/master/<Section>/<Item>/<File>

Example — Cosmos Laundromat master playlist:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NoMercy-Entertainment/nomercy-media/master/Films/Cosmos.Laundromat.(2015)/Cosmos.Laundromat.(2015).NoMercy.m3u8

CORS is permissive (GitHub raw sets Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *), so the content works directly from a browser without a proxy.

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Folder conventions

Films

Films/
└── <Title>.(<Year>)/
    ├── <Title>.(<Year>).NoMercy.m3u8     ← HLS master playlist
    ├── audio_<lang>_<codec>/             ← audio rendition group
    ├── video_<W>x<H>[_SDR]/              ← per-tier HEVC HDR/SDR ladder
    ├── subtitles/                        ← WebVTT per language
    ├── thumbs_<W>x<H>.vtt + .webp        ← sprite preview thumbnails
    ├── fonts/ + fonts.json               ← embedded subtitle fonts (if any)
    ├── luts/ + luts.json                 ← color-grading LUTs (if any)
    └── ATTRIBUTION.md + .json

Music (MusicBrainz Picard-style layout)

Music/
└── <Letter>/<ArtistName>/
    ├── <ArtistName>.png                  ← artist image
    └── [<Year>] <AlbumTitle>/
        ├── cover.jpg
        ├── <NN> <TrackTitle>.mp3
        ├── <NN> <TrackTitle>.jpg         ← per-track artwork
        └── ATTRIBUTION.md + .json

ID3v2 tags on every MP3 are normalised to canonical Free Music Archive values (title, artist, album, track number, year). Audio bitstream is not re-encoded.

Anime

Anime/
└── <Show>.(<Year>)/
    └── <Show>.S<season>E<episode>/
        ├── <Show>.(<Year>).S<season>E<episode>.NoMercy.m3u8
        ├── audio_<lang>_<codec>/
        ├── video_<W>x<H>/
        ├── subtitles/                    ← ASS / SSA test fixtures
        ├── fonts/ + fonts.json
        └── ATTRIBUTION.md + .json

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License overview

Films

Era	License	Examples
2006	CC BY 2.5	Elephants Dream
2008–2016	CC BY 3.0	Big Buck Bunny, Sintel, Tears of Steel, Cosmos Laundromat, Caminandes (1–3), Glass Half
2017–2023	CC BY 4.0	Agent 327, The Daily Dweebs, HERO, Spring, Coffee Run, Charge, Wing It!

Music

License	Album count
CC0 1.0	1 (HoliznaCC0 — Power Pop!)
CC BY 4.0	3
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	1 (The Kyoto Connection — Wake Up)
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0	1 (Derek Clegg — KJC)
CC BY-ND 4.0	1 (bent wyre)
Mixed per-track	2 (legacyAlli, Mr Smith — see per-album ATTRIBUTION)

Anime

Commercial copyrighted works (Silver Link, Passione). Hosted as test fixtures for the player's ASS subtitle + embedded-font handling. Not distributed under a permissive license. See Takedown policy.

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Attribution

Every consumer of this content is required to provide attribution per the applicable Creative Commons license. The format follows the CC TASL pattern (Title, Author, Source, License).

Detailed per-item attribution lives at:

• Films/ATTRIBUTION.md (root index) and Films/<Film>/ATTRIBUTION.md (per-film)
• Music/ATTRIBUTION.md (root index) and Music/<Letter>/<Artist>/[<Year>] <Album>/ATTRIBUTION.md (per-album)
• Anime/ATTRIBUTION.md (root index) and Anime/<Show>/ATTRIBUTION.md (per-show)

JSON equivalents (ATTRIBUTION.json) exist at every path for programmatic consumption.

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Modifications notice

Per CC BY: derivative works must indicate what changed. NoMercy modifications to upstream Blender / Free Music Archive content include:

• Video — transcoded to HLS with custom HEVC ladder (hvc1.2.4), both HDR (PQ) and SDR variants; sprite-VTT preview thumbnails generated; embedded subtitles re-muxed as standalone WebVTT; embedded fonts and color-grading LUTs extracted to separate sibling manifests.
• Audio — bitstream preserved bit-for-bit; only ID3v2 tags normalised to canonical Free Music Archive titles and licensing.
• Anime — same video pipeline; ASS subtitles preserved as authored; embedded fonts extracted to fonts/ so cross-platform players can load them without container parsing.

The original works are unchanged at the artistic level. All modifications are mechanical / packaging-level only.

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Takedown policy

If you are a rights holder and want content removed, open an issue on this repository or email takedown@nomercy.tv with:

1. The URL of the content
2. Proof of rights (or a verifiable identity link)
3. Whether you want the content removed entirely or replaced with a marker that points at the official source

Content is removed within 7 days of a verified request — no questions asked, no counter-claim process, no friction. The intent of this repository is to provide CC-friendly test material; nothing here is worth a fight.

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Related repositories

• nomercy-player-kit — headless contract substrate (28 adapter ports)
• nomercy-video-player — reference video adapter (v2 on feature/api-unification-consolidation)
• nomercy-music-player — reference music adapter (v2 on feature/api-unification-consolidation)
• nomercy-workspace — monorepo containing the testbed and examples site