Recycled Re-encoded Videos
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Is it just me or is there a plague of users, or maybe just one very hard working user, re-encoding videos that have already been shared here to change the file size, and then uploading them again? It's getting so hard to find good quality copies of videos because of the amount of low quality re-encodes flooding the site
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There are a couple of users that are producing good re-encodes, but generally, I agree with you.
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raphjd
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@drekkin said in Recycled Re-encoded Videos:
It's getting so hard to find good quality copies of videos because of the amount of low quality re-encodes flooding the site
They are ruining the original format and codec: [unfortunately
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Oversize upscaling w/ non standard format ...
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@john32123666 We shouldn't confuse upscaling with re-encoding. Upscaling, when done properly, is a skill and it takes a lot of time, effort and money (the software is not cheap) to properly restore and upscale a low-res video
On there other hand there are users ,who appear to have little or no knowledge of digital compression, who are running very recent H.264 encoded videos through a free program they downloaded from the net and re-encoding them with a H.265 codec, often at a different resolution, bitrate, frame rate, colour space....
The resulting videos are of a much lower quality, as anything encoded with two different lossy codecs will always be. Obviously if you're watching in poor light, on a phone screen covered in fingerprints you won't notice much difference, and I was told off recently for being old fashioned because "everyone watches porn on their phones nowadays", so maybe I'm just out of touch. 
My worry is that the original quality torrents are dying while these substandard versions are flourishing and that's frustrating
