Mels_Smileys45
February 4th, 2009, 09:03 AM
Please, lets not talks about DVDR's and such and keep this limited to the subject at hand. Quality compressed small files of movies. Lets also not talk about where the people get their source material. That is of no concern and no one cares who got what first. That is CHILDISH playground nonsense! What does matter is that some people know how to provide high quality content to people who may have limited means such as download and upload caps. In this day and age it is become more important than ever to be able to find the best content at the smallest file size. It should not be that way but that is a topic for another thread...on with the discussion.
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I find it a shame that rippers like axxo and Klaxxon and the like, who encode mass amounts of movies, still stick to the outdated and poor quality codecs. When people upgrade their monitors they quickly realize these popular rippers encodes are of very poor quality. They do not look too bad on a standard CRT set but are very ugly on a HD monitor where all the blocky pixels become very apparent.
Some people have been switching over to the newish mp4 and mkv formats and containers. Its HIGH time everyone switch over to this and make it a standard. All the content that is currently available in old Xvid and Divx format will have to be redone eventually as people will want quality content for their HD TV's and monitors. Its painful to watch some of the older encoded movies on a new monitor.
H264 and X264 provide the answers. It is very amazing at the high quality these codecs can deliver at very small files sizes. I have seen movies over two hours with 5.1 sound come in at 700MB with beautiful results. I have noticed one person named phrax who has encoded a few movies with X264 at 700MB with outstanding results. I recommend you pick one of these to try out and judge for yourself. Also people can now add the commentary tracks without having to worry about making the files too large. I have been playing with this myself and have found that I can add 2 audio tracks, keep the movie in the 720x--- range and still keep the movie well under a Gig!!! If I reduce the resolution just a little I can hit the magic 700MB mark with very little loss in DVD quality.
On the larger file front I think no one does a better job than Septic. He provides a wide variety of content, old and new, in HD at amazing real HD. No bullshit upconverting here. Real HD content that will blow your fucking mind! Watch Pulp Fiction just to see what I mean. Okay, thats somewhat off track, back on subject.
I beseech all the encoders out there to switch over to h264/x264 as soon as possible. If people so desired it would be possible to provide the same quality axxo is providing right now with files in the 350MB range with Mp4. This may be of interest to many because many ISP's are capping peoples downloads or reducing their speeds at peek usage times of the day. Come on people! Get with the technology and keep up with the times! Staying stuck in the past is ridiculous. Staying loyal to a codec because thats the accepted standard is dumb.
So...I call on you guys. Who out there is doing outstanding encodes? Who is able to do it and keep the files as small as possible? Lets hear about it!!!
http://i44.tinypic.com/opbtkm.jpg
I find it a shame that rippers like axxo and Klaxxon and the like, who encode mass amounts of movies, still stick to the outdated and poor quality codecs. When people upgrade their monitors they quickly realize these popular rippers encodes are of very poor quality. They do not look too bad on a standard CRT set but are very ugly on a HD monitor where all the blocky pixels become very apparent.
Some people have been switching over to the newish mp4 and mkv formats and containers. Its HIGH time everyone switch over to this and make it a standard. All the content that is currently available in old Xvid and Divx format will have to be redone eventually as people will want quality content for their HD TV's and monitors. Its painful to watch some of the older encoded movies on a new monitor.
H264 and X264 provide the answers. It is very amazing at the high quality these codecs can deliver at very small files sizes. I have seen movies over two hours with 5.1 sound come in at 700MB with beautiful results. I have noticed one person named phrax who has encoded a few movies with X264 at 700MB with outstanding results. I recommend you pick one of these to try out and judge for yourself. Also people can now add the commentary tracks without having to worry about making the files too large. I have been playing with this myself and have found that I can add 2 audio tracks, keep the movie in the 720x--- range and still keep the movie well under a Gig!!! If I reduce the resolution just a little I can hit the magic 700MB mark with very little loss in DVD quality.
On the larger file front I think no one does a better job than Septic. He provides a wide variety of content, old and new, in HD at amazing real HD. No bullshit upconverting here. Real HD content that will blow your fucking mind! Watch Pulp Fiction just to see what I mean. Okay, thats somewhat off track, back on subject.
I beseech all the encoders out there to switch over to h264/x264 as soon as possible. If people so desired it would be possible to provide the same quality axxo is providing right now with files in the 350MB range with Mp4. This may be of interest to many because many ISP's are capping peoples downloads or reducing their speeds at peek usage times of the day. Come on people! Get with the technology and keep up with the times! Staying stuck in the past is ridiculous. Staying loyal to a codec because thats the accepted standard is dumb.
So...I call on you guys. Who out there is doing outstanding encodes? Who is able to do it and keep the files as small as possible? Lets hear about it!!!