So what is the current file format ?

[TheDude]

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) ?

[Cruzz563]

The video will still be XviD and the audio will still be MP3.

[TheDude]

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.

[Cruzz563]

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

[Got3n]

i thought they were all xvid or divx

[Cruzz563]

The early one's are WMV, then we moved to DivX for a short while, now XviD is the current video codec used.

[EsPpY]

Why not DivX?

[YipMing]

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.

[Renesis]

Yeah expect it to be the same thing as 5g, but with like twice the size since it's 2x longer

[mpulztracker]

Xvid's pretty cool ! The recent 5G eps were an awesome job ! Thanx ppl !

[jensked]

I also prefer XviD...I think the quality is better than DiVX and it is free !

[Viper007Bond]

Yeah, the quality of XviD is better than that of DivX.

[justin syder]

anyone notice Xvid is Divx in reverse?

WOOOOOWWW

[Cruzz563]

Yeah justin, a little late to the party

[MyBoy]

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?

[Viper007Bond]

anyone notice Xvid is Divx in reverse?

WOOOOOWWW

Duh.

[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.

[MyBoy]

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.

[TheDude]

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.

[Cruzz563]

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.