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    So what is the current file format ?

    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.
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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

    If I remember, I'll ask him for the details and post back here
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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 !

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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
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    Yeah justin, a little late to the party
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cruzz563
    The video will still be XviD and the audio will still be MP3.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by justin syder
    anyone notice Xvid is Divx in reverse?

    WOOOOOWWW
    Duh.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MyBoy
    Quote Originally Posted by Cruzz563
    The video will still be XviD and the audio will still be MP3.
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cruzz563
    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.
    Thanks for your kind respond buddy.

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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.
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