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Emancipated
Apr 3rd, 2007, 11:41 PM
I came across a few 'scene' releases that are in HD-DVD format. Does 20GB seem about right for 1080 or is it more 720 for a 2 hour movie?

Thinking of grabbing it but I'm not even sure if there's a player out that can handle it.
Jaytee
Apr 4th, 2007, 08:38 AM
I came across a few 'scene' releases that are in HD-DVD format. Does 20GB seem about right for 1080 or is it more 720 for a 2 hour movie?

Thinking of grabbing it but I'm not even sure if there's a player out that can handle it.

20 gig sounds correct. It will be 1080. PowerDVD 6.5 or 7.1 with HD DVD support will play it. You need good a solid machine for playback or you will suffer dropped frames or stuttering.
jollyeskimo
Apr 4th, 2007, 08:48 AM
Yeah 720 is usually around 4-10GB's each, so 20GB sounds about right for 1080.

I personally use media player classic to play even HD content, because I usually like to adjust the edges to fit my screen if there's any extra black bars. It should play fine on just about anything provided that you've got the right codecs installed... some hi-def releases come in Matroska containers.
ShadowVlican
Apr 4th, 2007, 02:12 PM
Yeah 720 is usually around 4-10GB's each, so 20GB sounds about right for 1080.

I personally use media player classic to play even HD content, because I usually like to adjust the edges to fit my screen if there's any extra black bars. It should play fine on just about anything provided that you've got the right codecs installed... some hi-def releases come in Matroska containers.
i've only seen anime groups do that

scene release groups are usually not as technical as the anime community

but of course, maybe i haven't been searching hard enough.. ;)
milhaus
Apr 4th, 2007, 02:46 PM
Are these TS files? I can't get them to play properly with VLC on my Mac; maybe I'll boot on over to XP and see if they work okay . . .
jollyeskimo
Apr 4th, 2007, 02:56 PM
i've only seen anime groups do that

scene release groups are usually not as technical as the anime community

but of course, maybe i haven't been searching hard enough.. ;)Not quite sure... but only 2 of my 20-ish hidef files are non-mkv, and none of them are anime.

Are these TS files? I can't get them to play properly with VLC on my Mac; maybe I'll boot on over to XP and see if they work okay . . .Are you referring to Matroska or something else? Matroska = *.mkv
board123
Apr 4th, 2007, 03:18 PM
Matroska is preferred because it handles H264 and other A/V streams very well, and a lot of anime groups are releasing in H264 nowadays. There are also groups that use MP4 but that's not as customizable as MKV.

Personally I wouldn't bother downloading HD-DVD or other hi-def movies to watch on my computer. 350 MB for an anime encode is fine, but I refuse to waste 15+ GB of bandwidth for a single movie.