Battlestar Galactica S04E02 | MP4 H.264 AAC 720p
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Battlestar Galactica S04E02 | MP4 H.264 AAC 720p MP4 H.264 AAC 720p 1280x720 (mkv (by 2HD) HDTV Rip Conversion) Optimised for Apple TV | XBox 360 | PS3 Six of One The Cylons realise that their Raiders now refuse to attack the Colonial human fleet after one of the Raiders identified a Final Five Cylon among the humans. Starbuck is desperate to stop Galactica as it continues to jump away from the Ionian nebula. HooghlyROCKS!!
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Hey Hooghly! Thanks again for this!
I've compared your converted file with my own, using GOTsent - and for some reason, the audio and video quality are slightly better in yours. It's mostly the audio that's better actually. My GOTsent convert is lower volume and sounds a bit "muddy".
Also, wondering why this ep is 827mb vs 1gb for the last episode? they're the same length... what program are you using again?
thanks!
I've compared your converted file with my own, using GOTsent - and for some reason, the audio and video quality are slightly better in yours. It's mostly the audio that's better actually. My GOTsent convert is lower volume and sounds a bit "muddy".
Also, wondering why this ep is 827mb vs 1gb for the last episode? they're the same length... what program are you using again?
thanks!
I use VisualHub (a Mac program) to convert 720p MKV's to MP4 format.... it also does many other formats.
The VisualHub settings that I use Optimise for "Apple TV", High Quality (the slider) then under the Exgtran FFmpeg flags then select Best Possible H.264/AVC whick gives you:
-refs 2 -mbd 2 -me full -subq 6 -me_range 21 -me_threshold 6 -i_qfactor 0.71428572
I have never used the GOT....program as I do not have a Microsoft computer.
There is no direct link between the size of a file and the length of the content. If you have a 40 min TV show and it is a right action filled episode you will get a larger file than if the 40 min show was full of slow moving scenes with loads of people talking. There is a direct relationship between how much and how fast the picture changes and the resulting file size. Perhaps this was the reason?
There seems to be some unwritten rule about file sizes directly relating to how long a show is. Smaller resolution stuff is almost always 350 meg and 720p stuff is around 1.1gb - what is that all about? Who wrote those rules? Not me.
All of my releases will be of varying sizes - is just how it works. So next time you see a whole series with files ALL of the same size, stop and think what you are loosing just for the sake of neat files!!!
The VisualHub settings that I use Optimise for "Apple TV", High Quality (the slider) then under the Exgtran FFmpeg flags then select Best Possible H.264/AVC whick gives you:
-refs 2 -mbd 2 -me full -subq 6 -me_range 21 -me_threshold 6 -i_qfactor 0.71428572
I have never used the GOT....program as I do not have a Microsoft computer.
There is no direct link between the size of a file and the length of the content. If you have a 40 min TV show and it is a right action filled episode you will get a larger file than if the 40 min show was full of slow moving scenes with loads of people talking. There is a direct relationship between how much and how fast the picture changes and the resulting file size. Perhaps this was the reason?
There seems to be some unwritten rule about file sizes directly relating to how long a show is. Smaller resolution stuff is almost always 350 meg and 720p stuff is around 1.1gb - what is that all about? Who wrote those rules? Not me.
All of my releases will be of varying sizes - is just how it works. So next time you see a whole series with files ALL of the same size, stop and think what you are loosing just for the sake of neat files!!!
Thanks for the MP4 version!
My guess is that the viedo is more compressed in this, thus less than the usual 1.1 Gig. MP4 video is like mp3 for music, you can compress it differently (like 128 and 320 for mp3:s) to get different sizes, but the quality varies.
Bad guess HMPB, is use the same method and visual/audio settings that I use for every episode. I don't change the bit rate. What changes is the episode....
There is no direct link between the size of a file and the length of the content. If you have a 40 min TV show and it is a right action filled episode you will get a larger file than if the 40 min show was full of slow moving scenes with loads of people talking. There is a direct relationship between how much and how fast the picture changes and the resulting file size.
There is no direct link between the size of a file and the length of the content. If you have a 40 min TV show and it is a right action filled episode you will get a larger file than if the 40 min show was full of slow moving scenes with loads of people talking. There is a direct relationship between how much and how fast the picture changes and the resulting file size.
As a G5 Mac owner, it takes me absolutely forever to convert that .mkv (most krappy video) to .mp4 at this quality. I very much appreciate the effort, as this is the one single show I enjoy keeping up on. Keep up the outstanding work, thanks!
How do you know you don't change bitrate? What I've seen from visualhub, you don't know. It kind of does that automatically. Maybe you are talking about the frame rate? That doesn't change of course.
Yes different episodes will b different size, but we are talking the same episode here. See the mkv releases for example.
If visualhub was smart, it would extract the h264 stream and the ac3 audio stream from the mkv file and mux it together in an mk4 container. But it does not do that, it decodes the vide and audio and the re-encodes them again. Right there you have loss of quality even if bitrate hasn't been changed (it is like taking an mp3, decode it and then mp3 encode it again).
Then again, it is nice to have mp4 if you are an Apple TV owner, so thanks for that.
Yes different episodes will b different size, but we are talking the same episode here. See the mkv releases for example.
If visualhub was smart, it would extract the h264 stream and the ac3 audio stream from the mkv file and mux it together in an mk4 container. But it does not do that, it decodes the vide and audio and the re-encodes them again. Right there you have loss of quality even if bitrate hasn't been changed (it is like taking an mp3, decode it and then mp3 encode it again).
Then again, it is nice to have mp4 if you are an Apple TV owner, so thanks for that.
I don't quite understand why the file size has to be THAT large, though but that is probably a matter of taste. The typical episode is like 350 MB as an Xvid and at the same quality (which is fine by me) it surely shouldn't be larger than that as an MP4.
Also, I just looked up that a typical 45min episode from thy Apple itself is around 200 MB and the quality surely is fine by me again. Seriously, at your scale just Battlestar alone at 4 seasons is almost around 70GB - little excessive...
Still, in any case: good idea. Just maybe rethink the settings, e.g. leave Visualhub at standard with 2-pass encoding.
Also, I just looked up that a typical 45min episode from thy Apple itself is around 200 MB and the quality surely is fine by me again. Seriously, at your scale just Battlestar alone at 4 seasons is almost around 70GB - little excessive...
Still, in any case: good idea. Just maybe rethink the settings, e.g. leave Visualhub at standard with 2-pass encoding.
RESPECT @ HOOGHLYROCKS.
"these are top notch High Definition releases in glorious 720p" - indeed they are.
"these are top notch High Definition releases in glorious 720p" - indeed they are.
hooghlyrocks, what is your source for these videos? if it is the mkv files posted here already, then there is no way that yours can be "better" because you'll be getting generational loss. And the .mkv file posted here for episode 3 of this season is dire. lots of blocking, mushy detail, and codec glitches (dropped frames, quantization over-shoot on screen changes) and bitrate starved. i'd love to have a better copy of it. can you deliver?
Hi Hooghlyrocks,
I just wanted to thank you for these really wonderful Battlestar Galactica torrents. I just finished watching the first two from season four - WOW!
(Actually what I REALLY want is for you to upload three [and four?] as soon as you can ;) )
Though I can't read Swedish (my browser doesn't currently have a translator) I think I can make out the word "corrupted" in the comments for the current hires torrents of ep. three - so I'm stuck waiting for yours!
Thanks so much for sharing!
Laysan_A
I just wanted to thank you for these really wonderful Battlestar Galactica torrents. I just finished watching the first two from season four - WOW!
(Actually what I REALLY want is for you to upload three [and four?] as soon as you can ;) )
Though I can't read Swedish (my browser doesn't currently have a translator) I think I can make out the word "corrupted" in the comments for the current hires torrents of ep. three - so I'm stuck waiting for yours!
Thanks so much for sharing!
Laysan_A
silvrmane: yes indeed the third episode MKV is indeed trashed and for some reason all copies seem to be from the same source, they all have the same issues that you mentioned.
I have sourced another copy of the MKV.... for Lost some dude seeded the full 720p transport stream - just wish that I had the same guy uploading the same for Battelstar, those would have been great....
Anyway - E03 should be along shortly..... with any luck.
If I only have the dodgy MKV file to work with then I will see what I can do about the errors etc. see if I can smooth some of em out.
HooghlyROCKS!!!!
I have sourced another copy of the MKV.... for Lost some dude seeded the full 720p transport stream - just wish that I had the same guy uploading the same for Battelstar, those would have been great....
Anyway - E03 should be along shortly..... with any luck.
If I only have the dodgy MKV file to work with then I will see what I can do about the errors etc. see if I can smooth some of em out.
HooghlyROCKS!!!!
UPDATE: I am going to be seeding all of the back episodes of Battlestar over the next few days - I need a hand seeding.
Contact me if you can help with uploading
hooghly[AT]pookmail[DOT]com
NOTE: This is a disposable email address for public posting purposes only. I will reply from my actual email address. Please only leave message in the SUBJECT line (in case your email gets deleted I can still read who it is from and what the subject said)
HooghlyROCKS!!!
Contact me if you can help with uploading
hooghly[AT]pookmail[DOT]com
NOTE: This is a disposable email address for public posting purposes only. I will reply from my actual email address. Please only leave message in the SUBJECT line (in case your email gets deleted I can still read who it is from and what the subject said)
HooghlyROCKS!!!
SUPERSEEDERS needed!
Going to be seeding Heroes S1 in the same format at this release...
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If you want to help then please give me a shout on
[email protected]
(please leave short message in subject line only and I will get back to you)
Cheers
HooghlyROCKS!!!!
Going to be seeding Heroes S1 in the same format at this release...
http://piratebayproxy.live/tor/3982222/
If you want to help then please give me a shout on
[email protected]
(please leave short message in subject line only and I will get back to you)
Cheers
HooghlyROCKS!!!!
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