I have a Disney plus subscription through my family and watched a cool animation film yesterday. Sadly the horrible nitrate destroyed all the nice particle effects wich really took me out of the experience.
Are there any sites wich offer high quality streaming or should I look into torrenting for blue ray rips?
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Torrents indicate their resolution, and usually bitrate too.
But keep in mind, while it might say the resolution in the name, that doesn’t mean it’s not compressed to all hell. You’ll want to also check the file size and runtime to estimate the quality.
Streaming can provide decent quality, but not high quality. That’s simply too costly on scale.
Bit rate alone doesn’t necessarily tell you quality either.
I suggest you look for downloads and look for
- Release Groups that match your intentions (once you found favorites you may want to stick to them)
- Screenshots on releases/info pages
- Encoding information
To assess encoding information, you look at file type, video codec, and encoding bit-ness.
From high to low compatibility, and low to high compression ratio:
- mp4 file, AVC/x264/h.264
- mkv file, HEVC/x265/h.265
- mkv file, HEVC, 10-bit
- mkv file, AV1 [10-bit]
You can consider the triplets of the codec to be different names for the same thing.
You’ll be able to play all file and codec types on a PC, but not necessarily on other devices. If you’re streaming from PC to something else, that’s fine too.
I’m usually looking for 10-bit HEVC releases because of their vastly superior size for quality. If that’s not available, HEVC or AVC. In most cases, it doesn’t matter too much to me.
A video with a lot of movement or visual detail will have bigger sizes.
If you compare an AVC release and bitrate with a HEVC 10-bit release and bitrate, they are vastly different. You can get the same quality for a fraction of file size and bitrate. More bitrate is often a waste of bandwidth and storage space.
