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02/16/24
07:51:57

upx

Anyone else having trouble downloading from the CU website?

02/16/24
10:17:26

PlayboiCarti

@needforsuv I feel like I was going crazy that nobody else mentioned the audio issue. It's been around 2 weeks now I think the 1080p x265 RMTeam audio is messed up. I saw they changed from the usual 2:1 to 5:1 for whatever reason and it messed up the audio quality. The 720p x265 RMTeam audio is fine.

To anyone from the RMTeam staff reading this please take a look at it. The RMTeam 1080p x265 releases are my primary source of media I would hate it if they became unplayable to me.

I'm aware the whole process of encoding and uploading on this site is run by a scripted bot but there has got to be someone human behind the screens somehwere. So, I hope you read this for our sakes.

02/16/24
14:31:10

Katzengoettin

Hello,
could you please reupload Season 5 to 7 from Rookie Blue?
https://rmz.cr/rookie-blue

02/17/24
09:06:23

PACMOM

@Admin
Please, can you add "S.W.A.T.2017.S07E01.720p.HDTV.x264-SYNCOPY" ??

02/17/24
11:05:14

kang

@Admin
"S W A T 2017 S07E01" is missing...

02/17/24
13:36:06

Kenny_McCormick

@PlayboiCarti

The last time they took the site down for "maintenance" we ended up with more problems than we started with.

I say they should just leave the site alone, bugs and all, and we should all just enjoy what they can provide.

02/17/24
15:11:27

Kenny_McCormick

@PlayboiCarti

So, I just checked out one of the newer 1080p x265 rmteam encodes. The audio is fine. The video I downloaded used 2.0 96k 2 ch audio because the source video used those.

If they've set up their encoder properly, and I think they did, the audio is only copied not re-encoded. You wouldn't want upscaled audio. I wouldn't be better than the original 2 CH 96K.

The issue @needforsuv has is the File Information print out is missing a lot of info now.

Resolution: x
Duration:
Framerate: 0
Overall Bitrate: 0Kbps
Video Codec:

02/17/24
17:48:23

23d1

@Admin
S W A T 2017 S07E01 web version please

02/17/24
18:50:21

23d1

@Admin
Fire Country 2022 S02E01 web version please

02/17/24
21:08:53

holsten

@Kenny_McCormick The stereo encodes for 1080p movies are OK, but all the 5.1 audio encodes are bad. Too less bandwidth spend for audio.

I just checked for a series I watch, were the latest episode was bad. Approx 1Mbyte/minute for the audio. In the previous good sounding encodes it was ~2.75Mbyte/minute.

2.75:1 is the ratio of audio date to have the same quality for a 5.1 encode compared to stereo.

It looks like the same amount of data is spent for 5.1 audio as for the stereo mix, so no wonder they sound bad.

02/17/24
22:16:55

Kenny_McCormick

@holsten

Yeah, I wasn't able to find one with 5.1 audio to check, so grabbed the first 1080P x265 I did find. It had 2.0 audio which led me to believe they copied the audio rather than re-encoded it.

I grabbed the new SWAT posted later today to check out.
This is what I found out:

Codec : AAC
Bit rate : 127 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : C L R Ls Rs LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz

They do re-encode the audio. Have they always? I don't know.
It's a shame that they do, when just making a copy of the original would be so much easier and the sound would be so much better.

If I had a vote, I'd vote for them NOT trying to fix it. Too many things are now broken since the last "fix". I'm afraid of what will be broken next if they do.

I'm sure they want to keep the file size small. There are always going to be users demanding a "reasonably sized" upload so they don't "waste bandwidth".

Seems you can't please some without upsetting some others.

02/18/24
01:06:57

holsten

@Kenny_McCormick
Yes, they always recoded the audio to aac. Usually stereo at ~128kb/s while films with 5.1 sound where encoded with 384kb/s or sometimes even better.
Since about the last ten days every audio is encoded with ~128kb/s and while it is OK for stereo this is way too less for 5.1 audio.

02/18/24
01:48:16

Kenny_McCormick

@holsten

Something definitely happened within the last couple of weeks.
I've noticed the encode queue no longer connects to the database. Much of the File Information for each new upload is missing or inaccurate and now this issue with the audio. Not good.

02/18/24
11:03:13

needforsuv

the audio encode issue seems to be the inability to read the input codec leading to a default of 128kbps

I assume when the bitrate is lower than 384 (their usual), it gets encoded at that (say 256 or 192), but the default is 128

02/18/24
11:07:10

needforsuv

actually, I check by doing mkvtoolnix, the audio gets encoded as 384 AAC reguardless.

02/18/24
11:07:10

needforsuv

actually, I check by doing mkvtoolnix, the audio gets encoded as 384 AAC reguardless.

02/18/24
17:02:23

MeH

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02/18/24
17:07:47

Kenny_McCormick

@needforsuv

"the inability to read the input codec"?
That makes no sense. It doesn't work that way.
Makes more sense that the encode settings have been set to encode at:

Codec : AAC
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : C L R Ls Rs LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz

Which is what I got on the newest 1080p x265 rmteam encode of Belgravia.

The source audio was:

Codec : E-AC-3
Bit rate : 640 kb/s
Channel (s) : 6 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz

Seems more likely that the bit rate and codec encode settings were intentionally changed, perhaps to produce smaller files for users to quickly download.

02/18/24
19:13:03

holsten

I think something went wrong and the 5.1 encodes get the same bitrate as the stereo encodes.
I don't think this is intentional, for a typical film switching from 384kb/s to 128kb/s saves about 200Mbyte. Now the audio sounds like sh**, it is comparable to listening to a 48kbit/sec MP3.

02/18/24
21:17:12

Kenny_McCormick

@holsten

I agree. The audio does sound like sh**. I just can't believe that there is some kind of *switching* involved.

As you know this site is 100% automated.

It's only a guess, but I think that each of the *types* x264 480p, x265 720p and x265 1080p run their own script. The script tells the encoder what to do. There's no *switching* or *misreading* of input codecs.

I think that maybe something broke. I think that in fixing what was broke, several new issues cropped up. The timing implies that the audio script for the 5.1 audio encodes was part of what got broke after or during the fix.

The problem will probably continue until the encode settings are corrected to give at least 384 kb/s or whatever sounds good.

Substitute the word "accidentally" for "intentional" if you want. I'd buy that explanation.

I can only use 2 channel audio anyway. I grab 480P or 720p 2 channel audio rmteam encodes for my purposes.

I'm just trying to figure out what might have happened.