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(Legal) BitTorrent of 1.8 GB Hi-Def H.264 DVD. (Plays with DVD Player 4.6.)
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Yeah, before downloading over a gig of data, it would be nice to know what its up.
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If it's legal, it can't be anything worth watching. 
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Downloading now... I've been looking for some good H.264 HD samples to show off. Is this 1080p or 720p?
edit: just because I'm too impatient to wait the four hours until this downloads and i can poke around, what's the structure of an H.264 DVD like? Is it the same as a regular DVD, but with H.264 files instead of MPEG2 VOBs?
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It's just some travel footage as a test disc of DVD Studio Pro HD and Compressor 2, done by this guy. The original post is in this Ars thread.
The daylight stuff looks good (VERY good), but the night stuff is noisy. However, I think the noise may be a problem with the original video (plus compression artifacts).
Clip 1: 1080i60 MPEG2 and 720p60 H.264
Clip 2: 1080p24 MPEG2 and 720p24 H.264
Word of warning though: I think only DVD Player 4.6 supports this. Plays fine on my iMac 2.0.
Originally Posted by MaxPower2k3
Downloading now... I've been looking for some good H.264 HD samples to show off. Is this 1080p or 720p?
edit: just because I'm too impatient to wait the four hours until this downloads and i can poke around, what's the structure of an H.264 DVD like? Is it the same as a regular DVD, but with H.264 files instead of MPEG2 VOBs?
No VOBs. They are EVOs.
(Last edited by Eug Wanker; Jun 5, 2005 at 12:56 PM.
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I wonder if, since iMovie supports HD now, apple will update iDVD to support making HD DVDs as well. I'm planning to buy FCP in the next week or so, and i didn't really think i needed FCS, but it might be cool to be able to make HD DVDs (even though DVD Player is the only way to play them right now). Is FCS worth the $200 over FCP alone (edu prices)? hmm...
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DVD Player 4.6 won't play for me. States unsupported media type.
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In DVD Player 4.6, go to Help --> Show Supported Features.
If "HD Supported" isn't there, then the disc won't play. (I'm using an iMac G5 2.0.)
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okay... I saw 3 or 4 people completed the thing.. but not seeding.
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All of the clips play perfectly on my 20" 2.0GHz iMac with 1.5GB RAM (that's with PowerPoint, Safari, Adium, Photoshop, and NewsFire going in the background, too!). The quality is really great. I'm pretty sure the noisy night shots are due to the camera itself and not the compression (i don't think video that looks that crisp and clean in light shots would degrade so much in darker shots)
Thanks for the link 
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BTW.. I'm on the dual G4... so no native HD support with DVD Player 4.6
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That is my problem.
What can I use on my Windows box to play this?
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Most of it doesn't look much better than a DVD to me.
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Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker
Most of it doesn't look much better than a DVD to me.
??? There is absolutely no comparison. The detail is way better than any DVD I've ever seen. DVD isn't even in the same league.
I'd take a screenshot, but DVD Player turns off that feature. 
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Originally Posted by Eug Wanker
??? There is absolutely no comparison. The detail is way better than any DVD I've ever seen. DVD isn't even in the same league.
I'd take a screenshot, but DVD Player turns off that feature.
The trailers on Apples site look much nicer.
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Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker
The trailers on Apples site look much nicer.
The HD trailers maybe. The SD trailers are slicker than this demo DVD, but they are by no means anywhere as detailed.
Remember, this was made purely as a quick test HD-DVD, not a movie ad that cost tens of thousands of bux to edit and distribute online.
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Originally Posted by Eug Wanker
??? There is absolutely no comparison. The detail is way better than any DVD I've ever seen. DVD isn't even in the same league.
I'd take a screenshot, but DVD Player turns off that feature.
Capture Me
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
OK, here is a screengrab (click for larger):
Note that Capture Me only works up to 1000x700, which is much smaller than the native image.
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busy downloading it now.
what do you think was used to film this? any "consumer" hd cameras out?
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The only two markets of HD cams that seem to be around right now are the prosumer level ones at the <$6000 range, and the >$35,000 broadcast range. I'd say that this movie was filmed with a member of the latter group. i can't say for sure, but it looks too good to be from one of the current first-generation "cheap" HD cams.
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JVC has an HD cam for $2000
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