B!MiNT
P R E S E N T S
Seven.Samurai.1954.REAL.PROPER.DVDRip.XviD-MiNT
P L O T S U M M A R Y
A village is constantly attacked by well armed bandits. One day
after an attack they seek the wisdom of an elder who tells them
they cannot afford weapons, but they can find men with weapons,
samurai, who will fight for them, if they find samurai who are in
down on their luck and wondering where their next meal will come
from. They find a very experienced samurai with a good heart who
agrees to recruit their party for them. He selects five genuine
samurai and one who is suspect but the seven return to the village
to protect it from the forty plus bandits.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/
T E C H N I C A L S P E C I F I C A T I O N
VIDEO PARAMETERS AUDIO PARAMETERS
Format.....: [x] XviD Format.......: [x] MP3 (VBR)
DivX [ ] AC3 (2.0)
Bitrate....: 851 kbit/s (avg) Bitrate......: 87 kbps (avg)
Passes.....: [2] (VBR) Language.....: Japanese
Resolution.:|[ ] 640x--- GENERIC DATA
608x---
(FS source) |[ ] 576x--- Duration.....: 207 minutes
480x--- |[ ] 544x--- (3hr 27min)
448x--- |[x] 512x384
Package.Info.: CD1 50x15MiB
Q.Factor...: 0.181 CD2 50x15MiB
1% recovery
Aspect.....: [x] 4:3 (FS)
16:9 (WS) Theatre.Date.: 1956.11.19
DVD Date.....: 1999.03.01
FPS........: [ ] 29.970 (NTSC) Release.Date.: 2004.10.02
25.000 (PAL)
[x] 23.976 (FILM) IMDB.Rating..: 8.9 (26,474)
Genres.......: Action
Subtitles..: English Drama
R E L E A S E N O T E S
This release is a proper of
Seven.Samurai.1954.PROPER.READ.NFO.DVDRip.XviD-SChiZO. The proper
reason is that the audio for their release progressively becomes
further and further out of sync. Since this release is well over
three hours long, the effect becomes highly accentuated towards
the end of the movie. Included is a cut out from their encoding
and a cut at precisely the same position in ours. Subtitles are
included for both samples as well, however the subtitles do not go
out of sync, only the audio. You may see just how badly the sync
problem is if you hide the subtitles whilst examining the video so
that you are not distracted by them.
As you will have by now realised after checking the sample, this
proper is thoroughly justified. I would like to interject at this
point with a comment about how I am quite severely shocked that it
has been this long and nobody has released a real proper of this
IMDB rated #5 movie of all time before us. But even this does not
shock me as much as a comment in SChiZO's NFO. I quote:
"This rip has taken a month with 30+ tests and 4 encodes to
perfect - some major SChiZO love. Enjoy!"
As if to infer that taking an entire month to encode one release
is a sign of competence. Well here's an interesting bit of trivia:
this rip took me 12 hours. Most of that time was spent encoding
the movie with its remarkable run length. This means that I was
6000% more efficient at both ripping and testing it than SChiZO's
ripper or rippers who turned this straight forwards task into a
month long project and still failed. That is why when I read this
comment in their NFO I was immediately very worried about the
quality of the rip and as it has turned out my fears were not
unfounded.
In addition to the basic reason for the proper, here are some
extra reasons why you will enjoy this MiNT proper even more:
The subtitles are 100% accurate OCR interpreted plain text
subtitles. This is particularly beneficial for two major
reasons. The first reason is that the subtitles included on
the Criterion DVD are noticeably ugly looking. Check
SChiZO's sample. With plain text subtitles you can configure
how they appear with your subtitle rendering filter. The
default of Arial font + outline + drop shadow in Gabest's
DVobSub, which will display both subtitle formats, instantly
improves the visual appearance of the text. Secondly, plain
text subtitles are a lot smaller than a binary encoded .sub
file which means more bits for video and audio data.
Our video's bit rate and quantization factor are both
higher than that of SChiZO's despite the fact that our
release is the same number of CDs, the same frame size and
same frame rate.
Our audio has significantly more clarity than SChiZO's audio
despite the fact that both are VBR Mono MP3. This may be
because our audio was encoded with a slightly higher average
bitrate, because we use customized, professional LAME
encoding settings, because the source DVD had better
mastered audio or perhaps for all three reasons.
The video was encoded with the same professional standard,
highly customised XviD encoding settings that we use to
encode all of our videos, with the addition of the greyscale
compression flag for this particular release.
In this rather long justification of our proper we have had to
make a lot of comparisons between the two videos and it may sound
like we are having a big go at SChiZO. This is not the case.
SChiZO did a lot of things right, it's just that they did some
things wrong. Ours is just better.
In this final note I would like to point out that we have utterly
utilised the disc capacity of each CD. CD2 will only have a few
hundred kilobytes free when you burn the video with the subtitles.
This will cause you absolutely no problem at all, just so long as
you remember to burn "disc at once" (DAO) or to "close disc" as it
is called in some burning programs.
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