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Old May 21st, 2005, 11:05 PM   #1
 
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Hi !

When last we downloaded new Top Gear episodes, the file format changed every week (for a variety of reasonable reasons).

Does anyone know what file format is going to be used for the new episodes (video and audio) ?
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The video will still be XviD and the audio will still be MP3. images/smilies/smile.gif
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That's good - but what rate audio ?

Previously, some of us wanted a little better sound, since higher rate audio only adds 1% to the file size.
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It will probably the same bit rate as the one for the recent Fifth Gear eps...which I don't know off hand, soz. It will be stereo a better overall experience, I think he keep that quality audio when we had that discussion about that you mention above... so, yeah images/smilies/smile.gif

If I remember, I'll ask him for the details and post back here images/smilies/smile.gif
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i thought they were all xvid or divx
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The early one's are WMV, then we moved to DivX for a short while, now XviD is the current video codec used.
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Why not DivX?
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Divx isn't opensourced so either you pay to use it to encode.
Or you get that ugly watermark in the video.

Xvid offers around the same quality as Divx anyway.
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Yeah expect it to be the same thing as 5g, but with like twice the size since it's 2x longer
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Xvid's pretty cool ! The recent 5G eps were an awesome job ! Thanx ppl ! images/smilies/biggrin.gif
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I also prefer XviD...I think the quality is better than DiVX and it is free !
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Yeah, the quality of XviD is better than that of DivX.
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anyone notice Xvid is Divx in reverse?

WOOOOOWWW images/smilies/lol.gif
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images/smilies/lmao.gif

Yeah justin, a little late to the party images/smilies/lol.gif images/smilies/wink.gif
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The video will still be XviD and the audio will still be MP3. images/smilies/smile.gif
Since im new here, so maybe my view will carry no weight at all. But here what i have to say. I have done quite a few encoding task. It seems to layman like me that Nero H.264 implementation is better than anything else at least at this moment. As a consequence, we can get a better quality with the same file size or the same quality with smaller file size. So what do think?
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The video will still be XviD and the audio will still be MP3. images/smilies/smile.gif
Since im new here, so maybe my view will carry no weight at all. But here what i have to say. I have done quite a few encoding task. It seems to layman like me that Nero H.264 implementation is better than anything else at least at this moment. As a consequence, we can get a better quality with the same file size or the same quality with smaller file size. So what do think?
This has been discussed before along with the WMV-HD codec, in the forum and in the IRC channel. We don't really want to use it cause not everyone has a fast enough processor to decode the video. images/smilies/smile.gif
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This has been discussed before along with the WMV-HD codec, in the forum and in the IRC channel. We don't really want to use it cause not everyone has a fast enough processor to decode the video. images/smilies/smile.gif
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Hi !

I thought the consensus of opinions, back in May, was that 128k audio only takes a tiny fraction more than 92k audio and makes a significant difference in sound quality.

But, I now see that the new TopGear download is 92k MP3 sound.

This is even more important now, due to the features about songs !

PS In places where MP3s are torrented, nowadays no one uploads anything less than 192k and even in the old days of dialup a few years ago, 128k was the standard.
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Yes Vuk is tweaking it for the new season...last season the audio was 112 kbps for TG, I believe he's trying to get it back up there. images/smilies/smile.gif
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