Rome (2005) (complete) 720p BRRip (Eng Fra Ger Por Spa Rus subs)

"Rome" (2005) ( complete 22 episodes) x264
Action | Drama | History | Romance | War | Roman Empire | Julius Caesar

User Rating: 9.2/10 16,558 votes

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384766/



Riped & remuxed from Source: Rome.S01.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-H@M (85GB) &
Rome.S02.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-H@M (79 GB)


Only 1800 KB/S avg bitrate for a 720p video? Isn't the quality ruined ?
Not much difference, WATCH THE SAMPLE if snap shots aren't convincing enough.
On a big screen Full HD one might notice some minimal difference in sharpness.
Let me ask you; what difference do you hear between a FLAC and 320 KB/s song?
The good news is x264 can do magic (with the right encoding settings).
Bad news is it can take ages (in my case 8 Hours/episode on a 4 GB RAM pc).
You will never see blocky dark scenes or any other anomalies in my rips.
Why not kept the original DTS?
I agree DTS is cool for a sci-fi, action movie but here is mostly dialog,
horses, sounds from ancient times so AC3 will do, plus we saved many GB-s.
Also many people seem to struggle with DTS.

Intro & Finale Credits removed except S1.Ep1-Intro & S2.Ep10-Finale.
Why are they removed and why are episodes joint together in pairs??
We saved 1.1 GB by removing them, these series are very addictive so
watch 2 episodes (apx 1 Hour 35 minutes) at once
without waiting & skipping through the credits(they are all the same).



Format : Matroska
Overall bit rate : 2 289 Kbps

Video
Format/Info : AVC/Advanced Video Codec
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 6 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Bit rate : 1 800 Kbps
Display aspect ratio : 1 280 x 720 (16:9)
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.081
Writing library : x264 core 79

Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=6 / deblock=1:1:1 /
analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.0:0.0 /
mixed_ref=1 / me_range=64 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 /
cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / nr=0 /
decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=6 / b_pyramid=0 /
b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / wpredp=2 / keyint=240 /
keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 /
bitrate=1800 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 /
cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00


Audio ( English ) : AC-3,Constant,448KB/s,6ch,48KHz

Subtitles : English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian

Soundtrack: unchanged original Rome-OST file. 101 MB, 192 kB/s CBR.Thx to OST for it.

Sample: yes 21.3 MB (multisub)


http://e.imagehost.org/0953/Rome_S1_Ep_1_Frame_7877_23_972.jpg?042148


http://d.imagehost.org/0482/Rome_S2_Ep_10_10858_23_974.jpg?042148


The original was deblocked -3 -3 so from time to time the picture seemed unnaturally sharp and pixelated.
Here is a snap shot from the original of the same frame as the second picture:


http://e.imagehost.org/0459/Rome_S02E10_1080p_BluRay_DTS_x264-H_M_AC3_mkv_snapshot_00_07_32_2010_03_19_14_58_32.jpg?042148


(Watch her skin!)

In my decoding setting you can see I used deblocking 1 1 to make it a bit smoother and realistic.

Tested with Media Player Classic and on HD Fantec Media Player(media-box).