The movie studios must sure be pissed at the new wave of Blu-Ray Rip..

[Qianglong]

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I guess 23GB of movies is unfeasible for today's internet to download, the hackers sure got another way. This weekend i was playing around with the pirated Blu-Ray rips to see their quality. I downloaded a movie with total size of 650MB X 2 and i was quite suprised it is much better in quality than standard DVD Rips which totals to 4.5GB.

Anyone else thinks that with Blu-Ray, it just makes ripped movies better

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LOCKED. Brag about piracy somewhere else.

Harvey
Senior AnandTech Moderator

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To further clarify, had you left out the downloading pirated rips part and just said "I was playing with some blu-ray rips" this would have been ok. Putting it in the context of active piracy is what got this locked.

You can talk about technical issues of rips, etc. but this is easy to do in the context of movies you own or for educational/academic purposes. Please be smarter than this.

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DerekWilson
Forum Administrator

 

[George P Burdell]

WTF kind of 1080p RIP fits into 1300MB? There's no way you'd get good quality out of that. Hypothetically, if one were to download HD rips, one might find files between 8-12GB.

 

[LordSnailz]

yeah, I gotta call shens on that one ... unless you provide a link or screenshot

 

[Qianglong]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
WTF kind of 1080p RIP fits into 1300MB? There's no way you'd get good quality out of that. Hypothetically, if one were to download HD rips, one might find files between 8-12GB.

I have no idea man, the movie i download is a Blu-Ray rip into two 650MB x.264 MKV files. I downloaded the full DVD of the same movie and compared the quality and found the rip better.

 

[QED]

Originally posted by: Qianglong

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
WTF kind of 1080p RIP fits into 1300MB? There's no way you'd get good quality out of that. Hypothetically, if one were to download HD rips, one might find files between 8-12GB.

I have no idea man, the movie i download is a Blu-Ray rip into two 650MB x.264 MKV files. I downloaded the full DVD of the same movie and compared the quality and found the rip better.

But what was the actual resolution of the Blu-ray rip? Did they downscale it at all?

If you take a high-rez source and and downscale it will look great compared to an already-compressed source being re-compressed all over again.

 

[TallBill]

Idiots and their downloading. Just sign up for Netflix and you can watch every DVD or BD that you ever want for $19 a month.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: Qianglong

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
WTF kind of 1080p RIP fits into 1300MB? There's no way you'd get good quality out of that. Hypothetically, if one were to download HD rips, one might find files between 8-12GB.

I have no idea man, the movie i download is a Blu-Ray rip into two 650MB x.264 MKV files. I downloaded the full DVD of the same movie and compared the quality and found the rip better.

Think about it - how can you shrink a 33+ GB movie into 1300MB and retain any reasonable quality.

Post a screenshot OR open your video file, go to File -> Properties and copy-paste what it says there.

 

[ColdFusion718]

Most 720p x264 rips are DVD5 (4.38 GB) and 1080p x264 rips are DVD9 (8.76 GB). The 650 MB x 2 sounds like crap. Can you post some screenshots?

 

[Ika]

A regular DVD rip should be around 700mb, methinks.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: Aflac
A regular DVD rip should be around 700mb, methinks.

That's if they compress it using Divx or something.

If you rip a standard DVD, usually people will use 4.7gb as that is the typical size of a blank DVD. Then they compress it using Divx to make it easier to d/l and stuff.

To the OP, are you sure you aren't comparing a Blu-Ray rip compressed file vs a DVD rip compressed file? First of all, I have no clue if people rip Blu-Ray discs and compress them like DVD rips are compressed to 700mb or not, but if they did, I can see how it might look better than a DVD rip compressed.

 

[George P Burdell]

Most probably OP just download a regular DVD rip and thinks he has a Blu-Ray rip.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I've seen bluray rips at 4gb. Those are passable in terms of quality, but I've seen the 8gb ones too. This was while demoing my friend's Dell 2707. We carefully went through a lot of different files so I could experience the panel (before I bought it), and yeah there's a difference. I remember talking about the 300 rip being too grainy (I've watched the actual BD one also, which is grainy, but not as grainy as the 8gb rip I also saw). We could spot compression in a lot of dark areas too, and comparison with the actual BD disk revealed some differences. I've never seen a 2x650mb rip but it must be crap. If the TV rips are already 1.1gb for 1hr of footage, and comparison of those with the original .ts file that I record from my tuner reveals severe compression, I don't see how a 2x650mb 2hr movie will look anywhere near great.

I also love how my female friend said "I have Heroes Season 1 and 2 in HD quality, so if you want it let me know" I figured she meant the 350mb rips, and I'm willing to put money on that. Compare that with my HD recordings and we'll see what HD really is.

 

[jpeyton]

I'll stick to feeding my home theater its normal diet of high bitrate 1080p video and lossless audio.

 

[BigJ]

Download GSpot and give us ALL relevant informaiton. Personally, I think you're full of crap.

 

[TecHNooB]

Aren't you the guy with the amazing sashimi skills? How can you make a thread like this? Shame on you!

 

[Aikouka]

Yeah, I've never seen a BD or HD-DVD rip that was less than 4.3 GB .

 

[Foxery]

Er, guys. You can set the encoder to produce a wide range of file sizes, depending on the quality you want. MKV is also a more "efficient" container than AVIs; you get a few bits back to use towards video quality.

Some HDTV shows are encoded this way, resized to 720p if the broadcast was 1080i, and look absolutely beautiful. A little lower bitrate for a two hour movie is perfectly reasonable.

Originally posted by: Qianglong
I guess 23GB of movies is unfeasible for today's internet to download, the hackers sure got another way. This weekend i was playing around with the pirated Blu-Ray rips to see their quality. I downloaded a movie with total size of 650MB X 2 and i was quite suprised it is much better in quality than standard DVD Rips which totals to 4.5GB.

DVD is a 10-12 year old technology. Why does this surprise you?

And what do you think is "today's internet?" 10Mbit cable/FIOS can download that much in a day if someone really wants to.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Foxery
Er, guys. You can set the encoder to produce a wide range of file sizes, depending on the quality you want. MKV is also a more "efficient" container than AVIs; you get a few bits back to use towards video quality.

Yes, we know this, and the thing is, you still don't see resized/recompressed Hi-Def rips. Not to mention, if I were to get them, I'd want them for their resolution and quality, not just the quality.