If you want some background on this question, you can read my post from this morning in the uploaders forum.
Quality is often in the eye of the beholder - seeing that BakaBT focuses on checking the quality of submissions - I have a question.
I have some DVD sources. When I encode these sources to x264 - the frames have "rough edges" - magnified it looks like the edges frames were cut out with a dull knife or pinking shears. It looks exactly the same if I examine a frame from the original DVD. From the discussions I've had in encoding related forums this is a normal, and I have found it to be so also.
I notice that many of the rips done by the "known groups" have cropped these rough edges so that they get nice clean sharp edges to make a prettier picture.
Personally, I'd prefer if they had not done that and would have kept their encodes to being as close to the original source as possible and not cut anything out.
I can create encodes from my DVD's that are virtually indistinguishable to upload - or i can crop off those "rough edges" like the "groups" usually do and have those nice sharp edges - but which could not be restored as closely to the source.
Given the same image quality, bitrate, audio, subs - which does BakaBT consider to be the "better quality" - cropped or uncropped?
mugz
