Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly

Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by 10729287 on Monday February 05, 2024 @02:44AM (#39258373)

Sorry to focus on such a detail but VBR nevern been the standard in the Piracy scene. Back in the days it was 192kbps

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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by kalleboo on Monday February 05, 2024 @05:02AM (#39259327)

When I quit pirating music, I remember the standard being either LAME -V2 or --alt-preset standard which both are VBR https://opentrackers.org/scenerules.org/html/2007_MP3.html

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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by GoblinSlayer on Monday February 05, 2024 @05:34AM (#39259558)

Maybe metadata is wrong? Somewhere around 2011 it started to report as cbr, but encoding options are -m j -V 4 -q 3 -lowpass 20.5

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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by offices on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:29AM (#39260038)

My memory of old what.cd's and today's Red snatch counters disagrees with you. FLAC ~ V0 > 320

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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by nerdix on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:54AM (#39261205)

That's not how I remember it but it was a long time ago and memory is unreliable so I won't claim that my statement is a fact.

But I remember a period of time where basically every rip was VBR. 192kbps then took over when bandwidth and disk space were no long were no longer concerns.

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