bitsofnews.com— Director and ex-Monty Python Terry Gilliam is fine with people pirating his movies, as long as they don't screw up the encoding!
Feb 22, 2006View in Crawl 4
Good Omens would ROCK as a movie, no doubt about it...But what I'm waiting for is for someone to let him do Watchmen... as a 10 part miniseries on HBO.Its the only way it could be done justice. It needs to be that long, and it needs GIlliam as a director. He's talked about doing it for a while, but I think I read one interview where he broke down and said "it may just be too ambitious of a movie to be made".
"Ah, but you only encode once. x264 takes a little more time but it will outperform all MPEG4-ASP variants (XVID, DIVX, etc) all else being equal."XVID also has 2 pass VBR...And DVDR's are not bad quality. There must be something wrong with your DVDR/eyes/monitor. What about those 1-1 copies?
"XVID also has 2 pass VBR..."So does H.264. In fact, H.264 is inherently VBR. And one pass is never used unless you are writing direct to disc."And DVDR's are not bad quality. There must be something wrong with your DVDR/eyes/monitor. What about those 1-1 copies?"DVD's are encoded in MPEG2. If you do a 1-1 copy, you end up with MPEG2 video. There's nothing wrong with that but if, instead of 4-6 Mbps you could transcode to 1-1.5 Mbps that would mean a movie with the same quality stored in 1/4 of the space.Dual Layer DVD's transrated to fit on a DVD-R are lower quality than the original. That's because MPEG-2 is nowhere near as bit efficient as MPEG4 (any variant). That's what programs like DVD Shrink do. Instead of transrating MPEG-2, if you transcoded to XVID or H.264 you could keep the quality AND still fit on a DVD-R. That's what programs like Nero Recode do. Nero creates MPEG4 or AVC (H.264) versions that maintain quality but take up less space. It takes longer than a transrate but it's doing a lot more as well.A bonus is that if you use H.264, you might be able to fit 2 or 3 movies on that DVD-R. All at the original movie quality.
jwalk81980Feb 23, 2006
Gilliam is just great. Fear & Loathing is in my top 5.
eggoFeb 23, 2006
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luxowellFeb 23, 2006
Good Omens would ROCK as a movie, no doubt about it...But what I'm waiting for is for someone to let him do Watchmen... as a 10 part miniseries on HBO.Its the only way it could be done justice. It needs to be that long, and it needs GIlliam as a director. He's talked about doing it for a while, but I think I read one interview where he broke down and said "it may just be too ambitious of a movie to be made".
tiesqueFeb 23, 2006
No, he says that consumers pirating movies is theft...he just doesn't care if people rip off the studios. Read his quote.
saddadFeb 23, 2006
"Ah, but you only encode once. x264 takes a little more time but it will outperform all MPEG4-ASP variants (XVID, DIVX, etc) all else being equal."XVID also has 2 pass VBR...And DVDR's are not bad quality. There must be something wrong with your DVDR/eyes/monitor. What about those 1-1 copies?
mutzFeb 23, 2006
in a few months"P2P-user getting sued by monty python cause he distributed lousy rips"
oepapelFeb 23, 2006
"XVID also has 2 pass VBR..."So does H.264. In fact, H.264 is inherently VBR. And one pass is never used unless you are writing direct to disc."And DVDR's are not bad quality. There must be something wrong with your DVDR/eyes/monitor. What about those 1-1 copies?"DVD's are encoded in MPEG2. If you do a 1-1 copy, you end up with MPEG2 video. There's nothing wrong with that but if, instead of 4-6 Mbps you could transcode to 1-1.5 Mbps that would mean a movie with the same quality stored in 1/4 of the space.Dual Layer DVD's transrated to fit on a DVD-R are lower quality than the original. That's because MPEG-2 is nowhere near as bit efficient as MPEG4 (any variant). That's what programs like DVD Shrink do. Instead of transrating MPEG-2, if you transcoded to XVID or H.264 you could keep the quality AND still fit on a DVD-R. That's what programs like Nero Recode do. Nero creates MPEG4 or AVC (H.264) versions that maintain quality but take up less space. It takes longer than a transrate but it's doing a lot more as well.A bonus is that if you use H.264, you might be able to fit 2 or 3 movies on that DVD-R. All at the original movie quality.