Sorry Heartless, but I'm reviving dead thread for discussionz.
Meh, I was revived after all...

(25/08/2010 08:09 PM)Assassinator Wrote:  You mean the comparison screenshot in your quote?  If I remember correctly, that was something like... 1080p.spline36resize(1024,576).aa().spline36resize(1280,720).... which if I were actually encode this stuff, I would just leave at 576p.

Oh, do you mean those [Koi] TV rips I got?  That's not a very fair comparison though, those are old as hell AVIs produced in the age when people spammed denoise to save space....

But there's no 576p's out there.
And the point of it being better still stands.

(25/08/2010 08:09 PM)Assassinator Wrote:  I wonder, is there an easy way to extract screenshots out of the video on the server?

Because downloading a 800MB 1080p file just to see the quality is really really a big waste of bandwidth.  The best method I can think of currently is to use mkvmerge's --split command to split off a small section to download.

The server has to download it to, and yes, 800MB of download is a big waste of bandwidth for it.
Easy way = download like ~5MB of video yourself and pause it and watch it.

Oh, and, interestingly enough, uguu has two audio tracks, a 5.1 AC3 + 2.0 AAC.  I don't know why they include the latter - it sounds like it was encoded with FAAC or similar, cause at 112kbps it sounds like absolute poo poo.
Muxed some DVD English audio tracks into the BD rips.  Seems there's a lot of inconsistencies with the delays between the two...