VIDEO -- modes=flashhigh / flashstd and default_modename.mp4

[Shevek]

On 16 January 2011 18:19, M2 <M.2 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> have just tried --multimode to record b00rrd81 (Human Planet - E1) to see
> the quality difference
> and noticed that flashhigh (335MB) and flashstd (202MB) are same screen
> resolution 640 x 360 / Audio but different in size.
>
> VLC player is reporting in Codec Information (CTRL+J) same information, so I
> am puzzled.
>
> Does anyone know?
>
> So far I have managed to colate this info about video files:
> --modes=flashhd - H.264    1280 x 720 1704 kbps     AAC+ 240 kbps xx00 kbps
> --modes=flashvhigh - H.264    832 x 468    1404 kbps     AAC+ 96 kbps 1500
> kbps
> --modes=flashhigh - H.264    640 x 360    704 kbps         AAC+  96 kbps 800
> kbps
> --modes=flashstd - H.264    640 x 360    704 kbps         AAC+  96 kbps 800
> kbps
> --modes=flashlow - H.264    400 x 224
>

These are the actual values for that episode:

flashvhigh 631 MB - Video: 1404 Kbps,  832x468, Main at L3.0     - Audio:
96.0 Kbps, 24.0 KHz
flashhigh  335 MB - Video:  700 Kbps,  640x360, Main at L3.0     - Audio:
96.0 Kbps, 24.0 KHz
flashstd   202 MB - Video:  384 Kbps,  640x360, Main at L3.0     - Audio:
96.0 Kbps, 24.0 KHz
flashlow   167 MB - Video:  300 Kbps,  400x224, Baseline at L3.0 - Audio:
93.6 Kbps, 44.1 KHz

big difference in video bitrate between high and std

(I couldn't get the HD version to download at all, fails around 87.5%)