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DVD's definitely didn't use up the entire 4.7GB. A movie was anything from 700MB to 1GB
I think you're confusing them with MPEG-4 rips that are burned on DVD-R.
Am I seeing the past in a nostalgic light or were DVD 480p considerably better than YouTube 480p? I feel like streaming services compress their streams so hard that the resolution indicators become meaningless.
It's interesting to see how tiny Netflix mobile download files are. 200MB - 300MB for full-length movies, ~150MB for series episodes. This is on "Standard quality", but still. After some quick Googling (grain of salt) I see that a standard DVD of 4.7GB tends go have (usual encoding) up to 135 min of 480p video. That's a big difference! Even when considering that modern encoding might be more efficient. It is lossy co…
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It's interesting to see how tiny Netflix mobile download files are. 200MB - 300MB for full-length movies, ~150MB for series episodes. This is on "Standard quality", but still. After some quick Googling (grain of salt) I see that a standard DVD of 4.7GB tends go have (usual encoding) up to 135 min of 480p video. That's a big difference! Even when considering that modern encoding might be more efficient. It is lossy co…
DVD's definitely didn't use up the entire 4.7GB. A movie was anything from 700MB to 1GB
Am I seeing the past in a nostalgic light or were DVD 480p considerably better than YouTube 480p? I feel like streaming services compress their streams so hard that the resolution indicators become meaningless.
Most creators upload at 1080p, and YouTube has always given bitrate recommendations to match their service. Even with updated documentation, I'm expecting lots of people using their existing encoding presets for future 1080p uploads that can't benefit from this paywalled upgrade.
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It's interesting to see how tiny Netflix mobile download files are. 200MB - 300MB for full-length movies, ~150MB for series episodes. This is on "Standard quality", but still. After some quick Googling (grain of salt) I see that a standard DVD of 4.7GB tends go have (usual encoding) up to 135 min of 480p video. That's a big difference! Even when considering that modern encoding might be more efficient. It is lossy co…
DVDs of movies were actually dual layer, and had ~9GB capacity. I remember this distinctly because to copy a movie rental to a DVD-R you had to use a program like DVD Shrink so you could strip out all the extra features and compress the video a bit more to get it to be under 4.7GB
A whole article about a higher bitrate option but doesn't actually tell what that difference is. Is it +10%? +50%?
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I watch 4320p (8K) streams when possible because it noticeably improves the quality on my 4K screens — and this is with my worsening eyesight! That shouldn’t be noticeable if the 4K stream was encoded properly.
I believe this is to some degree due to chroma key subsampling, where in a 4k stream you will only have 1080p worth of light intensity encoded (cluster of 4px). So if you play an 8k stream and downscale to 4k you actually have full chroma (1:1). There could of course be other factors involved as well but this is definitely a pretty big contributor.
I've never really noticed effects from chroma subsampling so my guess would be the bitrate just being better with the higher resolution. Also "full res->compress->downsample" might be more efficient than "full res->downsample->compress" since downsampling is a (really bad) form of lossy compression as well.