stop downloading the biggest filesize thinking it will have the best video quality
Reminder that file size is not everything
Cooper Ross
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Eli Collins
okay
Gavin Davis
left: i want her to suck me
right: i want to rape her
Easton Perry
When I watch the show on Dish Network it is shown in 480p with hard-coded letterboxing for an equivalent 360p image with a low bit rate.
This does strange things to Katie McGrath's face. It smooths out every one of her pores and wrinkles, and makes her look extremely uncanny. Makes her look like she's wearing thick porn make-up or having been airbrushed. The overall effect is she looks even more severe than normal. And sexy.
Lucas Moore
wow how would the rape go
Sebastian Collins
So how do I pick the one with the best quality? Both of the ones you posted had the same resolution and you don't always get screenshots to judge first
Logan Carter
Based informative rip quality poster
Julian Bailey
The first thing to look for is if you see the word INTERNAL in a release that means it is an informal release by the group putting it out. It may not be up to their specs but it's out there because someone requested it or because they just want to cover all the shows coming out but don't have the "A team" working on it. It could be a perfectly fine release, or it could not and no bitching allowed.
Then you want to pay attention to if its a HDTV or WEB-DL release. Generally speaking, WEB-DL is higher quality most of the time with less logos visible and better encoding. If the show was ripped off of a cable or satellite box it will most likely not be true 1920x1080, but instead 1440x1080 that has been encoded to display in 16:9 (which the pirate group will have converted to true 1920x1080 for convenience, but the loss in image quality is still there).
Many networks also air shows only in 720p, and the "1080p" version you are getting is an upscale that has been done for you which supposedly will squeeze more picture quality out than if you had just used your player to upscale it. In practice this is pointless because your player will do just fine and you're downloading extra "fake" upscale data for no reason.
Sometimes things are just encoded badly. Constant bit rate encoding is more compatible with a variety of devices but it's also wasteful. If your device (hopefully a PC) can play back variable bit rate h.264 video then you should go for that.
Audio streams are a whole other topic and depending on what is available can add or subtract a couple of hundred megs up to even a gigabyte of data depending.
Luke Walker
Who cares?
I always grab the 1080p 3~5GB and Im happy with it
Carter Thompson
>crushed blacks are good
pleb
Anthony White
Ah too late
Julian Cook
You don't know what you're talking about. The image on the right has the correct black level.
James Collins
don't know exactly how they work but i've been downloading rips that say 10bit and those look pretty fucking good. also the ones that say x265 (not x264) tend to have very good quality for the filesize
Carter Adams
You're on the right track. x265 is a high efficiency codec that needs more power for playback, but can result in much lower file sizes.
Easton Garcia
fixed
Michael White
Judging by the way you write, you'd eat shit and be happy, ape.
Juan Evans
There is still a loss in resolution and dynamic range. Look at the lapel of her shirt in the lower right of the image. It is noisy and hard to make out in your corrected version. This is because even though the bit rate is 8000 kb/s constant it is a less efficient encode. Even though the high@l4 profile was used, other settings were chosen poorly.
Kayden Smith
The file size is only higher to preserve the quality since it doesn't get the luxury of using a 'master' like Netflix/Amazon does which are then directly downloaded.
Jaxson Watson
unless you're downloading RAW
Jackson Hall
Right. And in the process it ends up taking along whatever noise is there in the broadcast version introduced by the video chain from local affiliate to cable/satellite feed to your capture device (unless you rip from OTA HDTV which can look great).
Jace Jones
he's talking about video not images nigger.
Jayden Thompson
>all famous actresses have perfect white te-
Jose Turner
There are numerous ways of doing compression, but generally the 5gig rips of walking dead dont end up macroblocked to fuck because they use that shitty film-grain overlay, which looks like dogshit on a sub 2gig rip.
Carter Jones
>famous
Levi Torres
No veneers or braces for Chyler Leigh
Levi Morgan
Yeah, she has that "I'm going to sexually destroy Supergirl" feel.
Kayden Miller
>expecting quality from something you're getting for free
Ryder Reyes
Of course they are
Jack Ramirez
No reason not to, it's out there if you know what to download. Occasionally pirate releases can look better than what you have access to legally.
Kayden James
Thank you user. Best post for quite a while.
Joshua Hall
You dont compare a still or close up, compare an action scene with prominent motion blur and or an unfocused wide show with lots of objects in it. No fucking shit you cant tell them apart here.
Gabriel Perry
Damn dude that is a quality response. Saved it so I can refer back to it
Cooper King
>white teeth
>'natural'
Pick one famalam.
Dominic Myers
Saved and Based
Jeremiah Campbell
How dumb is everyone here? Just download the proper 1080p rips like sparks or amiable, or otherwise whenever you can. New shows always have 1080p rips on rarbg, proper quality. Fucking noob
Adam Cook
I try to get hevc whenever possible, also trying to avoid the 10bit encodes since the limitation of the source makes it nothing but extra data.
Benjamin Lopez
lol
Nicholas Miller
10 bit movies look far worse I don't know why, everything looks washed out.
Zachary Wright
Theyre encoding 8bit color data into 10bit, probably at the same bitrate, adding no information and leading to shit.
Brody Evans
Web-DL
Jaxson Nelson
HDTV derived. This is 1080p only by technicality. The level of detail here is somewhere between 480p and 720p.
Note: this is not an indictment of HDTV. HDTV can look amazing. OTA HDTV looks better than almost anything (even blu-ray in some caes) if your local provider is not screwing you out of a good picture.
But the idea here is just because it says 1080p HDTV and has a "big" (2.46 GB is not really that much) file size doesn't mean it will look great.
Matthew Green
>whenever you can
keyword can. Lots of shows don't have releases by those two.
Jason Powell
Haha do some comparisons of Melissa Benoist's pits
Grayson Powell
Well that's the part where you download the nice big rips that don't have HDTV or something like that
Evan Kelly
If you are seeing washed out color in a 10 bit file that's because you are viewing an HDR video file on a non-HDR display. 10-bit is a part of the HDR standard, but not the entirety of it. There are non-hdr 10-bit releases available on rarbg, and those will display on a standard gamut monitor just fine (maybe a little bit of banding if you don't have your video player set up correctly).
If you have a wide-gamut monitor or television that is not HDR (uncommon, but they're cheap on ebay) then those rarbg releases are godsends.
David Flores
based Chyler keeping her real teeth
Lucas Taylor
Who cares when it comes to shows, but for films, go remux. Anything less is dogshit. 10gb? Might as well be watching a 480p out of your phone. No space? If you're a hoarder, you would've bought a 4TB hard drive already so stop using that excuse. Remux or bust, don't even consider getting anything else. is based.
Nolan Lopez
Remux is a meme. Adds bloat due to the extra audio and shit. Past a point there's 0 discernible difference in sound or video.
Gavin Phillips
>not getting everything in x265 format
Eli Williams
It's the same jpeg so of course they look the same
Joshua Bell
>Who cares when it comes to shows
Most premium shows look better than films right now.
Luis Garcia
>It may not be up to their specs but it's out there because someone requested it or because they just want to cover all the shows coming out but don't have the "A team" working on it. It could be a perfectly fine release, or it could not and no bitching allowed.
Internals often don't conform to scene standards, I've rarely heard of an internal that isn't up to the groups standards.
Luis Williams
Good post, how do I get into this release quality autism? Where do i learn about it?
Landon Murphy
Fuck ps4 for not being able to play x265. Who designed this stupid shit.
Camden Rodriguez
movies are jpegs
png is an artificial format
Isaac Morris
What should I look for to get best audio quality? This is what bothers me the most about shitty rips.
Caleb Hall
oh hi mark
Isaiah Rodriguez
Audio bitrate.
Essentially don't ever download anything that's worse than the standard music bitrate of 320kbps, for movies it's usually around 384kbps and up that would be acceptable.
Just for comparison, YIFY tier encodes have 96kbps audio, literal audio farts.
Bentley Ward
yes instead download yiffy torrents and get DMAd out the dick
thanks OP!
Charles Rodriguez
>not downloading the 500mb version and calling it a day
If I can see what's going on then it's good enough for me. Stop being a snob.
Jacob Turner
this, as long as I can see some pixels moving it's good
who cares about audio, just put the based subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Robert Rodriguez
but left has better shadow detail/image bandwidth. right is just darker for muh contrast pop
Mason Ross
>these are the people we are sharing this board with
fucking hell guys, get a TV and headphones at least for the love of god
Jonathan Phillips
>he doesn't own everything on bluray
Anthony Reed
That's why I always get Yify :)
A/V: 10
Lucas Cox
>Uuuhhhh I can't appreciate a movie unless I can see every single pore on the actor's face
Go back to sniffing your own farts, Barnaby
David Hughes
I'm happy to sacrifice some video quality for decent audio.
Brandon Anderson
I was being sarcastic, this dude is an obvious plot point mental midget
Aiden Phillips
general rule is 7-10gb for 1080p movies. Lower for an animated movie (5gb for 3d, 3gb for 2d as a minimum)
Camden Bell
Explain to me how being able to see every wrinkle on an actress's make-up plastered face adds anything to the movie.
Nolan Bennett
if i download a bluray rip i expect it to look like the bluray.
Thomas Edwards
We're not talking about wrinkles here, we're talking about seeing anything at all if you legitimately watch 500mb encodes.
A dark scene is literally just grey pixels for you.
Your le wrinkle example is the difference between 1080p and 4K, what you are talking about is seeing anything at all.
Luke Lopez
To all the brainlets ITT; here's a comparison of two different version of a movie. This isn't a YIFY comparison but it might as well be. One is poorly encoded, leading to a blurry, out of focus image that can distract from the experience. The other is a properly encoded version that is sharp and clear. Why would you not want to watch a movie in the clearest image quality available? Why would you want to watch something that looks like you're watching a VHS tape through glasses smeared with Vaseline?
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Nathan Gutierrez
Holy shit man
Aiden Bailey
That looks like a fucking 480p upscaled to 720ish, of course it's gonna look bad. You're supposed to watch them on a tablet, not fullscreening that shit on a 1080p monitor.
Charles Brown
you're supposed to slit your wrists if you watch it on anything
that looks and sounds bad even if you watch it on a fucking smartwatch
Brody Hall
>why movie look bad when I stretch it DDDD:
Ethan James
They're both shit. Looks DVD tier.
Mason Hill
>zoomer thinks film grain means it's shit
lmao
Dominic Barnes
I like this thread.
Michael Sanchez
>downloading anything over 700mb
Get a load of this faggot.
Caleb Evans
if you're downloading a movie and it's over 1.5gb then you're either a NEET turbo virgin or the movie is 6 hours long
Juan Myers
No one ever said HDTV looks better than web-dl you autist
Benjamin Sullivan
>enter a jewelry store
>it's all free to grab
>instead of the 10 000$ piece you grab the one that is 10 bucks
???
Levi Brooks
you've got it wrong. If you're downloading music and it's in FLAC, then you're a NEET turbo virgin. There's nothing wrong with wanting to be able to see whats happening in the movie.