Lost S03E06 720p HDTV x264-CTU

great idea releasing higher quality versions of shows guys. right now my
internet is not really good enough to make it worthwhile, but in the future i
would really like to get some higher quality episodes of my favorite shows

i already have this episode in hr, i can\'t wait to see the difference.

i do connect my laptop to my hdtv via dvi cable, so we can definately appreciate the higher resolution. i
especially want to see heros in this format.

i would like to know if vlc will play this .mkv format? anyone?

which h264 codec is the one to go with (apart from using something that already
has built-in support, like videolan or ffdshow)? there seem to be several.

yep.... "old" episode new and better release

my feedback: i always download the hr releases where i can, they look damn
nice and the 5.1 sounds great on the home theatre. however, i can't play 720p
sources because i use my modded xbox to play all my media
(http://www.xboxmediacenter.de) and it appears that the xbox's cpu can't
decompress the files fast enough. it manages it some spots, but i guess where
the scenes are more complex it chokes really badly. thanks for your great work
though!

very glad to see 720p x264, i think it should be done for shows like lost and
heroes, and imo there is no need to release the hr.hdtv if your gonna do the
x264 so it's only going to be about half again.

would love to see 720p for heroes

great that you release bett quality files but personally i have no use for them
with my old 17" crt monitor. even if i managed to connect to my crappy tv it
wouldn't do much of a difference. guess i'll have to get a better screen before
i can enjoy these releases.

:d

i dont know why but .mkv files do not paly well on my pc
cpu usage goes to 100% and playback is choppy
i dont gave this problem with .mp4 files
using coveavc to decode x264

ok, i'm interested now. the file is about 3x larger then what i normally get
but i must see the difference now.

share people share!

thanks!

how about releasing in .mp4? unless you're using subs or chapters, i don't see
the need to release in .mkv (i'm hoping in the future stand-alones will play
these .mp4, but not sure of .mkv would be supported)

do use vlc player and it should work fine. i had the same thing with another hd
version of lost (but this one was mpeg-2 so it was 5 gb) till i tried vlc and
boys the quality is amazing so that i now know why sawyer calls kate freckles...

and aydin1954 not iconoclast... will be happy when this login bug is finally
squashed...

to how asked about playing mkv files .... vlc player

and yes please more 720p files!!!!!!!!!!!

there is a site, just for these shows.
x264.us
but its still new and under construction and would be very hard to maintain a
ratio i'd imagine.

i would definitely download anything h/x.264 over xvid, etc. just 'cuz i think
the xvid compression artifacts are more annoying than h/x.264's. nice of them
to size these releases so it just fits 4 eps on a dvd, too. i'd download these
instead of the hrs i've been downloading. (& if this catches on, i'm gonna have
to buy another hard drive!)

for those who asked, yes vlc will play them, but you'll need quite a fast
computer in order to play them well. (x.264 is way more processor intensive
than xvid, and the higher resolution makes it tougher, too.) i think the k-lite
codec pack has the codecs you'll want to play it in something else.

curb71 wrote:
"there is a site, just for these shows.
x264.us"


apologies for the double post, but how does one get into this site?

oh, & i'm grateful for whatever you guys release, but if you're interested in
hearing requests, put me down for 1 more vote for heroes, at least when the new
eps start again.

thanks for this!