Big Buck Bunny 480p (x264, he-aac)

This is an encode from the original png sources of the Peach open movie Big Buck Bunny (http://www.bigbuckbunny.org) I made this because the formats they offer it in are not very good. I thought I could do much better. This is the 480 encode. Here are a few of the problems I have: 1) Their MP4 is using MPEG4 ASP (FFMPEG4), which is not all that efficient of a codec. Especially with HD content. And, AVI...use a modern container!! 2) Their h.264 encodes use the QuickTime encoder, which is a very very poor implementation of h.264. 3) Theora isn't the greatest codec, but at least it's open. But, stereo vorbis, why? 4) MSMPEG4, why??????? So let me present my encode: Container: Matroska Video Codec: x264 Video Bitrate: 1509kbps Audio Codec: Nero HE-AAC Audio Bitrate: 221kbps For the curious, here's what settings I used: Video was scaled from the 1080p source using the Bicubic Natural Spline scaler in libswscale. I used x264 r869 with the psyrdo patch applied. --keyint 240 --min-keyint 24 --pre-scenecut --bframes 16 --b-pyramid --ref 16 --crf 18 --partitions all --direct auto --weightb --me umh --subme 7 --b-rdo --mixed-refs --bime --8x8dct --trellis 2 For audio, I used the latest release of the Nero AAC Codec (version 1.1.34.2) at -q 0.25 My results, a file sized less than their lowest quality, but with much better visual quality, and full 5.1 channel surround. Enjoy!

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saintdev (2008-06-09)

Sorry about the (lack of) seeding. My client was freaking out for some reason. Seems to be seeding now.