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Sincity

2nd January 2003, 19:16

Folks,

Just curious. What is the longest movie anyone has backed up (after removing menus, unwanted languages and subs) without re-encoding to a lower bitrate? Please list in minutes and name of movie. Thanks!

Sincity

3rd January 2003, 19:59

Ok guys....I used 3 movies as a baseline: Rush Hour 1, Barbershop and Shrek. Both Rush Hour and Barbershop averaged .039 gigs a sec while Shrek took .041 gig a second. Does the animated stuff take up more space? The average of those 3 movies is .040 gis a sec. That means I can approx fit a 116 min movie on a DVD. Of course subs stripped and 1 audio stream kept. What is your longest movie? Of course this is assuming they all use the same or similar average bit rate to encode or am I speaking out of sheer ignorance?

WorldBook

3rd January 2003, 20:03

Just curious wouldn't 0.040 gb/s be roughly 40 mb/s (I think 1024 mb make 1 gb). Do you mean 4 mb/s?

mpucoder

3rd January 2003, 20:11

I think Sincity is talking about gigabytes per minute, abbreviated GB/M. 0.040 GB/M is equivalent to 5.46 Mb/s (megabits per second)

WorldBook

4th January 2003, 16:33

Yeah I thought so :)

destemido

4th January 2003, 23:30

did Asterix and Obelix - mission kleopatra. it's a DVD5 meaning i could fit more stuff in there movie lenght 103 minutes...

Dre

5th January 2003, 21:40

Ronin - 121 min

Storm Riders - 128 min