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Transcoding like that is very heavily frowned upon. A scene group would not risk their reputation like that. I suspect what they are referring to there is the
by denkmoon 7y ago
Transcoding like that is very heavily frowned upon. A scene group would not risk their reputation like that.
I suspect what they are referring to there is the process of remuxing the file and removing extra audio streams, ie. a BD50 BluRay of "They Shall Not Grow Old" comes in at 20GB with two audio streams, DTS-HD and Dolby Digital. The remux of that BluRay comes in at 16GB and has an identical bit-rate on the video stream, but the Dolby Digital audio stream has been removed, as well as the menu graphics (though this would not apply to a WEB stream).
- saiya-jin 7y agoNo its not, look at piratebay. By far the most downloaded versions are 1.5-3GB 1080p rips, or much smaller 720p ones. And on some 55" screen, they are just fine
- FineTralfazz 7y agoThe files on TPB generally aren't the original scene releases. They get transcoded to lower qualities by other people for the masses who don't care.
- gsich 7y agoDepends on the release.
- pavs 7y agoThe scene releases are usually the highest quality possible released in exclusively closed private trackers - sometimes only paid accounts are accepted as a member (if at all). Everything else probably 95% you see in the wild are transcoded to lower bitrate and stripped out of all the extra files in the container (sub/multiple audio stream/highbitrate audio) to smalled files - because thats what most people want: Small Video easily playable on a regular screen.