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Whatever the pirates adopt will be the de facto codec
by ugjka 4y ago
Whatever the pirates adopt will be the de facto codec
- 0x457 4y agoEhh, that's not the case anymore. It used to play some roles because source material used some ancient inefficient codecs. WebRips are well, ripped as is. BDRip generally ripped as is as well.
- account42 4y agoRipping Blu-Rays as is makes little sense except for preservation as most of them have hardcoded black bars in the video stream instead of letting playback devices letterbox/pillarbox as needed. Apparently the standard only supports a few resolutions, not even including 24:10 and other common cinema aspect ratios. Also still plenty of Blu-Rays around using VC-1 which is garbage compared to current codecs. Perhaps all new ones have migrated to H.264 - at least all UHD ones I have seen have.
- kyriakos 4y agoAnd porn
- dopa42365 4y agoPorn uses old and free formats for maximum compatibility. h264 and aac, works on every budget device from the last decade (and older). Even the highest quality 4k porn is just 20 mbit/s h264. These companies aren't youtube, they don't encode every video in 10 different formats for every use case. If pornhub statistics are to be believed, like 85% of visitors are mobile users. There's no point in optimizing anything for expensive big screen great audio home theater experience when your target audience is 5" low res screen 1% volume ashamed at night phone fappers. The very opposite of cutting edge technology (with the exception of tiny niches like VR).
- TacticalCoder 4y agoHonest question: what would currently be the most commonly audio format supported by pirates for pirated movies? I've got a home cinema projector but never paid much attention to the audio (just using my stereo: it's a good stereo but it's not 5.1 or anything).
- izacus 4y agoYou get all of them, since they tend to be ripped as-is from the source media. I commonly see Dolby Digital+ (because Netflix/Prime/etc. use them), Dolby TrueHD (because BluRays use that) and nowadays there's more and more Atmos. Ocassionaly you can see an odd DTS/DTS-MA now and then, but not a lot.
- pixelatedindex 4y agoPersonally I see a lot of AAC/AAC+ and some Dolby Digital.
- 0x457 4y agoWell, pirates don't care about licensing of audio or video formats, but most do care about fidelity. For audio, generally, whatever source was is used: Dolby Digital+, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Atmos, AAC or AAC+ if source is wack.
- IshKebab 4y agoNah, piracy is much less popular than it used to be. And there are plenty of formats that have been quite popular with pirates but had zero use commercially. Matroska for example.
- account42 4y agowebm is matroska (with limits on what you can use) so it actually has seen quite a bit of commercial use.
- IshKebab 4y agoIt's based on Matroska. But it's a different thing. Matroska itself still isn't used commercially.
- account42 4y agoIt isn't just "based on" matroska, it literally is matroska. Call it a subset if you want to be pedantic.
- anjbe 4y agoAn incredibly limited subset for sure. WebM with VP8/VP9/AV1 is a far cry from how Matroska is typically used, with supported codecs like h.264/h.265 and chapters, subtitles, multiple audio tracks, and linked external files.