When the Scene encodes movies, they encode using presets. If you've used an x264 encoder before, you'll know that you can encode and choose certain parameters. The scene uses presets based on size, to encode to that exact size, which is greatly frowned upon by high quality HD encoders. When P2P groups (depends greatly on the group since they have no rules to follow) encode, they'll do many samples and play with the minute settings (like bframes, bpyramids, etc) to create as close to a transparent encode to the source as they can, regardless of filesize. If it happens to be close to whatever multiplication you want it to be, then cool. But they dont care in the slightest. I know the head of a HD P2P group (PerfectionHD) and a few other prominent encoders who wish the scene would be abolished at the HD level so that quality would prevail over size.
Direct quote from encoder on Framestor (prominent P2P HD group) saying they do not encode for size.
Bertster7 wrote:
You ignore all the benefits of scene releases (standardisation, minimum bit rates etc) and all the downsides of P2P releases (many of which are terrible - but of course you ignore those). Neither is better than the other.
Standardization is good, its just not the best. With their standards they cant encode at a higher quality than what their filesize allows.
Of course there are terrible P2P groups, thats why you have to know the groups and stick with releases from groups that have proven themselves to be of the best quality.
Last edited by Winston_Churchill (2010-02-26 13:13:12)
