good movies

[Guliver]

Hello everyone, today I'd like to present a movie as well. It is called "Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin", made in 1994 in a Czech/Russian/French/Italian/UK co-production. The screenplay was written by a czech playwright/actor/writer, but it's based on a satirical novel written by soviet dissident Vladimir Voinovich, which depicts the daily absurdities of the soviet regime and expresses strong anti-war sentiment. The movie is, at its heart, a comedy, and it ends on a more lighthearted note than the novel. A short description from IMDB reads:

"Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941, Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves him free to work his charms on the village postmistress, Nyura, until the local militia are tipped off."

I think some users of the forum, humbert for example, could find it very interesting, and still relevant in the present day.

You can watch the movie here in czech dub with english subtitles: https://vimeo.com/834341988
There is also a russian dub available, for those who will find it easier to understand, like Daniil. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx_X7WHWhFM

[scarface]

Tonight, another good movie, titled "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane", is available on the forum.

The story: A thirteen-year-old girl, who lives with her absentee father, befriends a disabled teenage amateur magician and invites him, gradually, into her tenuous struggle against a predatory local neighbor.

https://ok.ru/video/1461158283977

[scarface]

I assume humbert watched a few of the movies available in this topic. Perhaps maher and Guliver watched the excellent movie "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane", presented in the previous message.

If you want to watch another movie, I' going to present misery, released in 1990.

The story: After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.

Analysis:
The most unsettling thing about "Misery" is that Annie seems to have no endgame. Almost from the beginning of the play, it's clear that nothing good can come from trapping a famous writer in her cabin for months, with the world searching for him and a sheriff occasionally knocking at her door.
Misery is rather a psychological thriller than a horror film. As such it does not feature the sheer number of jump scares, moments of violence, and high number of deaths as was a convention of other horror films in the nineties. Of course, Misery is still frightening; and I don't know if I would advise it to Vasudev.



https://ok.ru/video/358028348038

[humbert]

Hey Scarface. I know you do some video editing and [I believe] use programs like handbrake. Is there any way to enlarge a video while limiting grainy pixelization to a minimum? I know this can be done with image files, but not sure about videos.

Some videos I have are almost the size of a postage stamp when put on a 4K screen.

[scarface]

Hey Scarface. I know you do some video editing and [I believe] use programs like handbrake. Is there any way to enlarge a video while limiting grainy pixelization to a minimum? I know this can be done with image files, but not sure about videos.

Some videos I have are almost the size of a postage stamp when put on a 4K screen.

Hi humbert,

In fact I used to do that, indeed. if you want to reencode a video, you have to know that re-encoding almost always results in some loss of quality. However, the loss can be barely noticeable if you use the right settings. I reencoded some videos using the x265 codec, to reduce the file size, since x265 can deliver similar visual quality to x264 at lower bitrates.  But enlarging  the video resolution is probably the worst thing you can do. Because your playback devices is probably much better at "upscaling" if needed. Likewise, increasing bitrates from a low bitrate source won't add any quality improvements, instead you're adding only more useless data which results in a larger file for no good reason.
Yet, if you still want to enlarge your video, you can load it in handbrake and then put the resolution limit and then check the "Allow upscaling" checkbox. In the example below I put a 720p video that could be re-encoded in 1080p.

[humbert]

Scarface - thanks for answering.

Logic dictates that video quality will be compromised if you try to enlarge it. The idea is to enlarge and mimimize degredation.

Basically you're using handbrake to enlarge and re-encoding to x265? Is this just to save space? Can degredation be minimized if you use x264 assuming space is available? Remember that with today's drives, space is no longer the problem it used to be.

[scarface]

Basically you're using handbrake to enlarge and re-encoding to x265? Is this just to save space? Can degredation be minimized if you use x264 assuming space is available? Remember that with today's drives, space is no longer the problem it used to be.

I never enlarged a video. However, I re-encoded some videos to save space.
x265 demonstrates superior compression performance compared to x264, with bitrate savings reaching up to 50% especially at the higher resolutions.
Therefore, with a 1080p video encoded in x264 at 3 or 4 Mbps, I re-encoded them in x265 at roughly 2,2 Mbps (vs 3 Mbps for the source video for example) or 2,5 Mbps (vs 3,5 Mbps or more for the source video). With the same resolution, the difference is not visually noticeable.




You can see the results with a few movies available on the forum - all these videos were previously in x264 and re-encoded in x265:
https://www.nomaher.com/forum/index.php?topic=1023.msg36076#msg36076
https://www.nomaher.com/forum/index.php?topic=1023.msg37855#msg37855
https://www.nomaher.com/forum/index.php?topic=1023.msg37813#msg37813
https://www.nomaher.com/forum/index.php?topic=1023.msg34359#msg34359