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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by IntelMiner on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:56AM (#17539292)
Where are you finding HEVC encoded pirate content?

I railed against "scene" groups for many years over the quality (or lack thereof) in releases they put out. To the point I simply started buying the media I wanted, ripping it myself and then converting it to HEVC

Doing as close to a 1:1 DVD rip as I can, I've shrunk things like Seinfeld from 152GB of MPEG-2 video to just 31GB in HEVC, and it still looks absolutely fantastic

HD video fares even better. The X-Files on Blu Ray is roughly 1.7 terabytes. HEVC encoded brings it down to 240GB or so

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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by NelsonMinar on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:12PM (#17542433)
PSA Rips is a good place to look if you're curious about how H.265 is used in practice. (Note the 10 bit video.) Their stuff tends to be tagged "hevc-psa". Here's an article they wrote about encoding quality: https://psarips.com/why-psas-releases-are-sometimes-late/
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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by crtasm on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:06PM (#17544020)
That sounds like they're re-encoding releases by other groups? If so I wouldn't trust anything they say about quality.
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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by NelsonMinar on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @10:52AM (#17550079)
I don't think so; their releases seem mostly to be WEB-DL from the original source streams. They seem pretty sophisticated about it, I don't think they're doing something stupid like trying to turn an 8 bit source into a 10 bit rip.
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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by crtasm on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @11:04AM (#17550152)
The linked post can't be referring to web-dl as that wouldn't involve them doing any encoding, just removal of DRM.

Edit: as I suspected, they are reencoding from other groups. At least they make it clear I suppose:

"Preacher.S03E04.The.Tombs.1080p.WEBRip.6CH.x265.HEVC-PSA 447mb.

Source: Preacher.S03E04.The.Tombs.1080p.AMZN.WEBRip.DDP5.1.x264-NTG | 2.38 GB"

No way that could look as good as the x264 and the video has been encoded three times, amazon->NTG->PSA.

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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by crtasm on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:16AM (#17541387)
Quick look at http://m.thepiratebay.org/search/x265/0/0/0 returns a huge number of results.
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