boudaba I've been pushing higher bitrate streaming internally until we got a clear evidence there's no impact. I suggest we move discussion here https://forum.sexlikereal.com/d/3545-bitrate-comparison-test
AV1 Is Now Live on SexLikeReal!
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doublevr
You are basing your observation on the eyes of the people in charge of internal production who could be wrong. There is a limit where we would not see the difference in the bitrate but it is better to be slightly above it than below. Below 30 mb/s is perhaps acceptable for you but not for the eyes of some of your consumers. The only eyes capable of giving an accurate opinion are those of your customers. As I said then the other studios are idiots to offer videos above 50 mb/s and the customers are blind. Don't worry, I will not post at all anymore, I'm wasting my time.
Edit : You know, I'm a developer and an expert in my job, but I sometimes I wrong. It's hard sometimes for my ego, but I'm improving myself, and if I still believe the client is wrong, I make an effort because they're the ones paying me.
doublevr We’re excited to share that AV1 video playback is officially live
I've noticed image quality looks better! Is this cuz the av1?
fenderwq Also if there is no impact why are you gonna sell hbr video?
This is a great point that I have seen you make a couple of times.
If there is NO difference between the Master and the one we can download Then why would the AV1 be worth anything? There shouldn't be a difference, right?
Problem is, SLR treats AV1 Codec as a "miracle" or something for an "obvious reason".
But almost everyone here forgets that when it comes to 180°+ VR Video format, everything is "magnified" so to speak, so every bit of resolution, frame rate and color depth counts.
Guys, you need to IGNORE the AV1 PAPER Specs that's MOSTLY described the Flat videos, they mean NOTHING when it comes to VR Video format, at least according to my recent tests and comparisons, In other words the HEVC vs AV1 is meaningless in terms of everything, especially the bitrate.
Whatever codec you use, you need to be reasonable and adjust the correct value when encoding the VR Video depending on the Resolution, Frame rates, Color depth and movement objects, elements and particles in the real life action, CGI or AI video to have an acceptable visual quality.
I know I'm sounding like a broken record now, but that's the only way to go for VR Videos. This is why I hate it when SLR or anyone describe them as "High Bitrate" THEY ARE NOT high bitrate.
They are "Reasonable/ Acceptable" bitrate when it comes to High resolution VR Videos, and they should be available for everyone as part of their subscription plan.
We subscribed for High quality VR Videos, not for garbage quality that can be watched for free everywhere or an "acceptable quality" that's hidden behind ANOTHER PAY WALL.
For me, I'll stick to my guns and refuse to be fooled by this, I always do with anything in both real life and virtual one.
Now it's up yo you guys to raise your standards or keep being fooled and have garbage quality videos, dumb video formats and ***** casting and direction.
All the best.
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As I said here or in another post, the other studios must be stupid to offer videos above 50 mb/s and SLR is smarter with its magic encoding. You just have a guy at their place who compresses the image until he says: ok here it still looks good, we can still see some details of the skin. And in addition the video is at 25 mb/s bitrate for a 10 gb video file with a duration of 70 mins. The client will not see the difference. I'm not complaining about the fact that we have to pay for the master but that the video is encoded so poorly to somehow force us to buy the master. There is no middle ground !
I bought the latest scene with Eve and Agatha, not seeing a different download option.
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OpeningThng19 we are working on AV1 PPV release and will be included with all purchases retroactively. Give it some few more weeks please
fenderwq you are arguing and trying to present evidence to people who clearly dont care about what you care, no matter how obvious it may be, they will dodge deny and change the subject indefinitely because they already made up their mind before this was even a thing in yours lol
rerun119 More like infamous
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I am a bit lost trying to catch-up with this thread. So I am going to just throw this out there:
The only reason I reason that I got a lifetime sub to this site was because of the high quality/high production content of the SLR Originals that were being produced. OntheTelly-(VRfanservice) made innovative content that I felt deserved to be supported. As another subscriber already mentioned in this thread, Onthetelly was let go shortly after I paid for my lifetime membership. Then passthru became the new focus. This sucks IMO, ...I like VR that transports me to new places and experiences, I am not interested in bringing VR into my own space. At least Nash is still around and gives us an interesting BGG or BGGG scene once in a while...thank goodness.
I just want to have the ability to download higher bitrate videos that insure I am getting high quality video reproduction. I don't need the raw footage. This is what I paid for, hopefully this will not disappear as an option.
rock1515 I'm also a lifetime sub, I had been not using the SLR streaming for long time ever since I tried the original high bitrate file.
Sadly I had lost faith for them. SLR will just ignore our request for the original file.
For now, I will just go for other contents.
4 days later
Where are the AV1 downloads?
