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How many GB? I see "bluray rip" mp4 files on torrent index sites, which I assume have been aggressively recompressed, but there are three size tiers in the "108

How many GB? I see "bluray rip" mp4 files on torrent index sites, which I assume have been aggressively recompressed, but there are three size tiers in the "1080p" category: 2-3GB, 7-10GB, and 15+GB.

dddgghhbbfblk 7mo ago
You want to search for BDMV for full disc images, or for remuxes which are uncompressed video and audio streams, if you want to get a sense for the size on disc. Typical Blu-ray images will be from 20-40ish GB.
- miki123211 6mo ago
  How are today's scene rippers about keeping extra audio tracks and such in these, E.G. audio description? It used to be quite hard to get an actually actually unmodified disc image.
  - progbits 6mo ago
    On private trackers where people care about that stuff it's easier. The NFO usually has a pretty comprehensive description of the contents and all the tracks etc so you can decide which version you want before downloading.
  - dddgghhbbfblk 6mo ago
    Unmodified Blu-ray disc images are the BDMV folders I mentioned. Any BDMV will be unmodified almost all the time though I've very occasionally run into modified ones originating from the Chinese piracy scene that had custom subs added. A "good" remux is actually the highest quality movie release available, usually, if you don't care about file size. A good remux will combine all the best parts of every possible release into one super-file. For one movie, you could have the best video quality be on a French UHD Blu-ray, the best audio quality from a different source, subtitles aggregated from various international releases and streaming platforms (and filtered/deduped for quality), chapter titles taken from an old DVD, and all available commentary tracks collected. Rarely you might even see a hybrid release where multiple streams are spliced together to fix some problem or another in one of them. You can look for releases by the CINEPHILES p2p group for gold standard examples, they get distributed fairly widely so you can probably find some. To answer what you asked about extra audio tracks specifically (outside of full disc images)--usually non-English dubs are considered bloat and aren't distributed. Commentary tracks are kept. Audio description is a mixed bag, good groups will keep it.
ThrowawayTestr 6mo ago
It really depends on your hard drive space and your tolerance for compression. Two hours of decently compressed video is a few gigs, but if you want 10-bit HDR with 5.1 audio, then choose the 15 gig torrent.
- hedora 6mo ago
  If I wanted it to be a few gigs, then I'd have bought the $2 DVD, and not splurged on the $5 bluray!
gsich 6mo ago
codec? x264 and 1080p is in the ~8GB range for a 120min movie. Depending on audio might be more.
- hedora 6mo ago
  https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00029663 https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00029663 VC-1, H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) Also, the studio paid a professional to peep at all the inter-frame pixels and turn the knobs right when they encoded the bluray. I might be able to get a perceptually lossless rip that's 25-50% smaller than the original, but it's just not worth my time.
  - gsich 6mo ago
    but those are not rips

How many GB? I see "bluray rip" mp4 files on torrent index sites, which I assume have been aggressively recompressed, but there are three size tiers in the "1080p" category: 2-3GB, 7-10GB, and 15+GB.

dddgghhbbfblk 7mo ago

You want to search for BDMV for full disc images, or for remuxes which are uncompressed video and audio streams, if you want to get a sense for the size on disc. Typical Blu-ray images will be from 20-40ish GB.

miki123211 6mo ago
How are today's scene rippers about keeping extra audio tracks and such in these, E.G. audio description? It used to be quite hard to get an actually actually unmodified disc image.
- progbits 6mo ago
  On private trackers where people care about that stuff it's easier. The NFO usually has a pretty comprehensive description of the contents and all the tracks etc so you can decide which version you want before downloading.
- dddgghhbbfblk 6mo ago
  Unmodified Blu-ray disc images are the BDMV folders I mentioned. Any BDMV will be unmodified almost all the time though I've very occasionally run into modified ones originating from the Chinese piracy scene that had custom subs added. A "good" remux is actually the highest quality movie release available, usually, if you don't care about file size. A good remux will combine all the best parts of every possible release into one super-file. For one movie, you could have the best video quality be on a French UHD Blu-ray, the best audio quality from a different source, subtitles aggregated from various international releases and streaming platforms (and filtered/deduped for quality), chapter titles taken from an old DVD, and all available commentary tracks collected. Rarely you might even see a hybrid release where multiple streams are spliced together to fix some problem or another in one of them. You can look for releases by the CINEPHILES p2p group for gold standard examples, they get distributed fairly widely so you can probably find some. To answer what you asked about extra audio tracks specifically (outside of full disc images)--usually non-English dubs are considered bloat and aren't distributed. Commentary tracks are kept. Audio description is a mixed bag, good groups will keep it.

ThrowawayTestr 6mo ago

It really depends on your hard drive space and your tolerance for compression. Two hours of decently compressed video is a few gigs, but if you want 10-bit HDR with 5.1 audio, then choose the 15 gig torrent.

hedora 6mo ago
If I wanted it to be a few gigs, then I'd have bought the $2 DVD, and not splurged on the $5 bluray!

gsich 6mo ago

codec? x264 and 1080p is in the ~8GB range for a 120min movie. Depending on audio might be more.

hedora 6mo ago
https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00029663 https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00029663 VC-1, H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) Also, the studio paid a professional to peep at all the inter-frame pixels and turn the knobs right when they encoded the bluray. I might be able to get a perceptually lossless rip that's 25-50% smaller than the original, but it's just not worth my time.
- gsich 6mo ago
  but those are not rips