| ▲ | softskunk 3 hours ago |
| > Of particular note is the “remux” community, dedicated to seamlessly stitching together the best video and audio streams from different releases without any generational loss of quality. That’s not what “remux” means. A remux is the original data from, for instance, a Blu-ray disc, transferred into a new container without re-encoding. What the author is referring to would be called a “hybrid remux”. |
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| ▲ | mahboi 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Is there an actual non-hybrid "remux" community? |
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| ▲ | timdiggerm 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Are you speaking purely of the technical difference, or do you know what that particular community calls itself? |
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| ▲ | hamdingers 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Remux is not a community, it's a tag that pirate release groups uses to indicate that a release contains exact copies of the original video and audio streams present on the disc. GP is correct that files with purely additive changes (like additional audio tracks) to remuxes are called hybrid remuxes. ETA: To the author's credit, this is convention rather than a hard rule. I checked my usual sources and found the exact 89gb 4k Arrow remux the author mentions in the closing paragraph and it is indeed labelled 'remux' only. The uploader did make a note of this though: "Unfortunately, as Arrow had to pull the Italian dub due to rightsholders demands, I had to sync it from the 2017 Kino Lorber disc." | | |
| ▲ | askjdfksdbfhk 36 minutes ago | parent [-] | | >Remux is not a community, it's a tag that pirate release groups uses to indicate that a release contains exact copies of the original video and audio streams present on the disc. There is a community insofar as there is a relatively small group of people who sink their time into producing high quality remuxes, and this group talks to each other (on IRC and elsewhere). >GP is correct that files with purely additive changes (like additional audio tracks) to remuxes are called hybrid remuxes. As I corrected on a child comment to the GP, this is not correct. It is not convention either. A hybrid remux has a stream which is a hybrid of two or more sources. Simply combining tracks from different sources isn't a hybrid remux, it's just baseline good practice. | | |
| ▲ | opello 6 minutes ago | parent [-] | | In my (admittedly limited) experience, adding audio tracks to a video track that weren't produced together often requires editing. If not for sample rate reasons, content reasons, like extra space for additional video space at the beginning or ending most basically. It seems like in any instances like that, which I would count as "nominal," it would be appropriate to identify those as "modified from" which would seemingly place you squarely into "hybrid" space within the taxonomy of this comment thread. |
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| ▲ | askjdfksdbfhk an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There's nothing wrong with the definition you quoted. I would say it's entirely accurate (except perhaps that it neglects subtitles, which can end up being a substantial amount of work if you choose to put the effort into it). >What the author is referring to would be called a “hybrid remux”. No. While the "hybrid" term has been used this way, the standard definition now is for remuxes where a single stream has been created by stitching together streams from two different sources. For example, a video from source A has generally better picture quality, but has some glitch or issue that requires patching in a segment from source B to create a hybrid video stream. Doing this for the main video without re-encoding is very difficult/unlikely to work because video codecs are very hard to work with in this way (you'd have to have two sources encoded with the same codec, the same encoding settings, you have to slice things at a clean GOP boundary in both sources, etc), so most commonly hybrid remuxes refer to the Dolby Vision layer. Source: I happen to be involved in this community. |
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| ▲ | d-e-r-e-k 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| If the article gets something like that wrong, I’ll have a hard time taking any of it seriously. Pass for me. |
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