How can such a small file be of such high quality...

[pooksahib]

Hi. I've just downloaded, via torrent, an episode of the Ricky Gervais comedy 'Extras'. This is the mediainfo data:

Complete name : F:\Extras (BBC) - 3 - Ricky Gervais & Kate Winslet.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 233 MiB
Duration : 28mn 39s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 1 134 Kbps
Writing application : transcode-0.6.14

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 2
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 28mn 39s
Bit rate : 993 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 368 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.169
Stream size : 204 MiB (88%)
Writing library : XviD 1.0.3 (UTC 2004-12-20)

The picture quality is absolutely superb despite the rip being less than 1000 Kbps. Whenever I convert a DVD (I usually use xmediarecode) I have to use at least 2000 Kbps for satisfactory quality and even then it's nowhere near as sharp as this download. Can anyone suggest how it was done?

[DB83]

Maybe you should reaquaint yourself with the the forum rules:

Warez rules
What is warez? Obtained movies/tv-series/tv-shows/software either through download, torrent, etc that breaks the copyright.

Do NOT talk about warez releases
Like filenames Movie.2012.DVDSCR.X264.AAC.P2P.mkv. Please don't download warez movie/tv releases.

[Richard_G]

Warez or not, I think you need to go to specsavers. Absolutely superb picture quality from a 640x368 pixel frame size? What are you watching on? A phone?

[Noahtuck]

Warez or not, I think you need to go to specsavers. Absolutely superb picture quality from a 640x368 pixel frame size? What are you watching on? A phone?

LMAO!!!

Yep, I was thinking, I'll bet it does NOT look superb on my 46" 1080p!!
LOL!!

[pooksahib]

"LOL" all you want, I have it playing on my main telly and it's better than the BBC broadcast.

[sanlyn]

It's possible that with the proper prep and processing, that video might be watchable to some extent...more or less. But "absolutely superb" ? ? Mmmm...No. Now that the word "awesome" has lost all meaning and importance, let's start working at making "superb" mean even less. That's not lowering the bar, it's burying it.

[jagabo]

I downloaded part of the video. I saw nothing special about it. About normal for 640x368, 25 fps, Xvid at 1000 kbps. DCT ringing, macroblocking, oversharpening halos, buzzing edges, posterization artifacts from strong temporal filtering, etc. I don't know how you could call that "absolutely superb".

[Hoser Rob]

Warez or not, I think you need to go to specsavers. Absolutely superb picture quality from a 640x368 pixel frame size? What are you watching on? A phone?

That's just what I was thinking too.

I know you're not supposed to discuss warez, but I've seen warez video that had 10/10 user rating on the torrent site. It was wretched. And not even a low bit rate.

I figured either they watched it on their phone or they're just idiots.

[Baldrick]

Without any sample video it's a useless discussion. And as it's a WAREZ release I don't want to see it here. End of thread.