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billybob
Senior Member


I don't like condoms in porn.
1115 Posts
9/10
Posted - Mar 7 2014 : 4:22AM
Hi Members,
I'm a paid subscriber to evilangel.com. I'm very happy with the creative content provided by the website. I'm mostly happy with the encoding quality of the 720p and 1080p files. I'm extremely unhappy with resolutions lower than 720p.
Please use this thread to leave feedback about Evil Angel.com
If you have any complaints, suggestions, ideas, tips or anything please post them here.
My suggestions to evilangel.com;
- Web 'HD' 540p is not universally recognised as HD standard. 720p, 1080i, 1080p and higher are generally regarded as High Definition standards. Please don't tell me that as at March 7 2014 you have 4312 HD scenes when you don't really. Many of those scenes are in your fake definiton of HD in '540p'. Please re-categorise your HD content as being either 720p or 1080p. Web 'HD'? I call that bullshit.
- You have available for some scenes WMV 'Low 160p', 'Small 240p', 'Medium 360p' and 'High 480p' and for MP4 'Low 160p', 'Small 240p', 'Medium 360p', 'High 480p,'Web 'HD' 540p (not really High Definition), 'HD 720p' and 'HD 1080p'.
- 160p? 240p? Are you kidding? Even an iPhone 4 can playback 720p. Ditch the bullshit and drop these 2 resolutions.
- Go back and re-master your older content and re-release it in HD 720p. You know 720p? It's actually a commonly accepted HD format unlike Web 'HD' 540p.
- Take a leaf out of kink.com's book. They're pretty much ditching ALL of their crappy low-bit rate MPEG2.wmv encoded files and replacing them with High Quality 720p MP4 files. Also guess what? They don't have Web 'HD' 540p.
- You're average bitrate on most of your 720p and 1080p content is quite good.
- Possibly think about dropping your .WMV content if you can. MPEG 2 WMV is old school and is shite. Probably time to drop it if you can. Most people these days are able to play MP4 files. Again take a look at kink.com. They're purging themselves of WMV's. Probably about the same time you guys did.
- Any of your scenes exhibiting compression artefacts/macroblocking need to be re-encoded in higher bitrate MP4. It's not Rocket Science. Whomever does your encoding needs to actually check the quality of their encodes before uploading the scene. If the scene exhibits compression artefacts at a given bitrate then how is it difficult to raise the bitrate to eliminate these compression artefacts? This is not a difficult concept to understand. If a 720p scene exhibits compression artefacts at 4,000Kbps then why not give 5,000Kbps a try? I don't see this being difficult. Yes the file size will be larger but your members will be happier with the quality.
billybob
Senior Member

I don't like condoms in porn.
1115 Posts
9/10
Posted - Mar 8 2014 : 10:50PM
For example look at the technical quality of the following classic scene... Let down by poor encoding quality!
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Animal Trainer #01, Scene #01
Updated : 2009-10-01
Length : 00:46:33
Size : 422 MB
Starring Rocco Siffredi, Kelly Stafford, Amanda Dawkins
Categories Pornstar, Hardcore, Natural tits, Big Breast, Anal, Deep throat
Directed by Rocco Siffredi
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Video Quality;
File Size : JUST a paltry 421 MB!
Bit rate : 1 220 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
MPEG-4
29.970 fps
Progressive
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JUST 1,220 Kbps!!!! That's rubbish. The Video Bit rate should be around double to triple that.
So what if the file size becomes 842 MB to 1263 MB?
Imagine the increase in quality delivered to the members?
Please go through your whole back catalogue and re-encode all of your video clips into an acceptable
Video Bitrate. Video Bit rates need to be boosted to around 2440Kbps to 3660 Kbps
for a 480p 29.970 fps MPEG-4 clip.
As stated this will double to triple the per-scene file sizes but the quality boost would be amazing.
I would like to see these CLASSICS presented in the high quality that they deserve. At the moment unfortunately
that's not happening.
I challenge any to tell me straight that the Animal Trainer 1, Scene 1, 480p MP4 file is any anyway technically
pleasing. The content is extremely high quality let down by terrible encoding quality. The quality is almost
like a Tube-Site!
Come on Evil Angel. Let your members know you care by presenting these classics properly.
Bang Bros with their remastered series can do it, kink.com can do it (by replacing all of their crappy .wmv files)
and so can you. You're one of the most important studios in the world but you're letting yourselves and your members
down.
Jacco All-Star Supporter
All-Star Member

"liable to deprave and corrupt"
2673 Posts
5/04
Posted - Mar 8 2014 : 11:48PM
You do know that Animal Trainer #1 is from 1999, so it was not shot in HD?
And do you have any idea how big their back catalogue is? What you're asking is for them to spend a fortune in time and money to re-encode all that, if it's even possible, because they would need to find the original masters, most of which will (if they still exist) be on tape.
Jacco
JigglyBoobs
Senior Member

1614 Posts
3/12
Posted - Mar 9 2014 : 6:10AM
Have you considered that whether a device is capable of playback is NOT the issue? Evil Angel could be thinking of those with either slow connections or very tight download limits (it still exists in today's world).
utopiaa
Member

610 Posts
7/11
Posted - Mar 10 2014 : 11:53AM
And Kink have "540 HD" too, its the 96 hex 540 resolution and most porn sites offer it and it is not weird resolution at all. Other matter is of course if you can call it HD or not. Some say 720p is not HD either :)
Edited by - utopiaa on 3/10/2014 11:55:04 AM
 
Jacco All-Star Supporter
All-Star Member

"liable to deprave and corrupt"
2673 Posts
5/04
Posted - Mar 10 2014 : 3:01PM
^It all depends on your screen size and distance to the screen, your eyes have a limit to their resolution too.
Here's a handy chart:
resolution_chart.jpg
Jacco
El Pololoko
Member

209 Posts
12/10
Posted - Mar 10 2014 : 3:30PM
I would totally love it if Evil Angel would re-encode their older DVD collection for their website. Those rips they currently offer are definitely piss poor in quality by today's standards. However, I feel that they initially intentionally did that so that there was still some demand for their actual DVDs. If they had given it all away on their website in good quality, then that might meant less profit in the long run because no one would buy a DVD at full price when you can get that whole catalogue for about the same cash.
However, a lot of these movies have been out for many years. So, perhaps it's time they re-encode this material in an updated format for their current fans and supporters. I mean, that back catalogue at Evil Angel is, in my opinion, some of the greatest porn ever made. There are tons of great Rocco, Christoph Clark, and Buttman scenes that would be incredible to have access to in better quality.
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