19 comments on Battlestar Galactica S04E08 720p HDTV x264-BiA [eztv]

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1.Posted by 19corvette78 on May 28 2008 at 03:03

EZTV rocks.....TY

2.Posted by ian1107 on May 28 2008 at 15:13

Nice upload. Can anyone tell me though why all 720p uploads have to be in MKV? What's wrong with AVI or DivX? They are a pain in the arse as my HD media player can't play them, neither can the PS3. They take a whole day to convert and then often don't play properly - far too much hassle to be worth it really.

3.Posted by Scolder on May 28 2008 at 15:45

@3 don't download if your gonna complain. They also release an Avi version.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/1449660

4.Posted by Pooboy on May 28 2008 at 16:42

@3 720p HDTV releases video are h.264 encoded giving you much better quality than xvid or divx while keeping the same filesize. The AVI or DIVX container formats don´t support h.264 correctly. Guess MP4 or MOV could be used but you´ll have to recompress the ac3 audio to aac, BUT WHY BOTHER when MKV supports any kind of compressed video/audio besides being able to hold subtitles too. If you are interested take a look at a comparison of container formats like AVI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_container_formats

5.Posted by sycorax82 on May 28 2008 at 17:27

There's only one problem with a release of this nature. With it being a US show being shown on UK TV it suffers from 4% speedup, making voices music and everything sound slightly higher-pitched. This is unavoidable due to the UK/Europe PAL system where everything has to be played back at 25fps to avoid judder on PAL TVs.

Even UK Blu-rays play back at 25fps. On the PS3 you have to select the option to play them at 24fps to get the right speed for movies and US TV shows.

6.Posted by James_Oregon on May 28 2008 at 17:53

If you mix Jill Kelly and Janine Lindemulder together, you get Tricia Helfer.

7.Posted by Freepost on May 28 2008 at 20:57

For ian1107 I have the same problem that the mkv will not play on the PS3. To overcome this problem I use a converter mkv2vob (google it). Its fairly quick at making the conversion and as far as I can tell the image quality is not reduced.

8.Posted by eburks on May 29 2008 at 04:17

Thanks for the episode, It's pretty neat having this even though it won't
be playing in my area for a few days

a bit off topic but in the same area we have been commenting on. I use a phillips stand alone DVD player that supports USB (I use an 8 and a 4 Gig pocket USB drive) and decodes DIVX just fine but my main problem is that with USB I only get 8 characters for filenames. This torrent would display in the file menu as battle~1 , battle~2 etc. Does anyone own a stand alone that has USB input and gives more than 8 character titles on USB file input.

My DVD's have a different limitation (14 characters) but at least they don't waste 2 with the ~1 ~2 etc

any stand alones that will display more characters for DVD

and.....

Does anyone own a stand alone that does X264, MP4 (MKV)

I don't play games at all

I am looking to order another stand-alone that does X264 (not really wanting blue ray yet) I want to spend <$150 US

recommendations???

Thanks in advance

9.Posted by AnonymousSeed on May 31 2008 at 08:20

@ #5 Pooboy & #8 Freepost. I also recommend GOTSent 0.23 its easy + free. What it does is convert just the audio and repack it as a mp4. Works for XBox 360 + PS3. Only problem is it has to down convert to stereo (for compatibility)if its 5.1

10.Posted by phinn on May 31 2008 at 20:10

Thanks! This streams to my Playstation 3 perfectly

11.Posted by phinn on May 31 2008 at 20:17

MKV format is a pain in the ass, why can't it just be AVI?

12.Posted by PietXL on May 31 2008 at 21:37

It feels like it plays slightly too fast for me. I have no clue how to adjust the speed.

13.Posted by thedrizzle on May 31 2008 at 23:03

Worse than ****. Over a gig to d/l and the audio isn't synced. -5 stars.

14.Posted by BritSwedeGuy on Jun 01 2008 at 11:46

If you haven't got the know-how to play MKV correctly, why not broadcast your ignorance here?

15.Posted by Xeion on Jun 03 2008 at 07:35

Fantastic job again, thanks eztv.

16.Posted by Caleb37 on Jun 04 2008 at 02:44

For some of you the problems with the mkv files and the fact that these are HD - unless you have a new computer with dual core processors they can be pretty hard on a system and it's resources. I had a P4 3.4EE and it was OK, but still very hard on the system even with two gb of memory. My new quad core kicks all kinds of butt and I rarely discover problems with these files. It's a get use to type of thing, and I did.

17.Posted by Shalimar on Jun 04 2008 at 17:31

This is NOT 5.1 surround.. it is stereo 2.0 only

look elsewhere for the proper version...

18.Posted by tazinlwfl on Jun 17 2008 at 14:46

for all those wanting to convert to a PS3 compatible file,
check out MKV2VOB
its freeware, and it doesnt change the quality. I've actually used it to convert the 1st and 7th episode

it can convert it to either AVI or MPG (including Divx... or Xvid, cant remember)

Its super quick. Completely adware/spyware free... (i use it at work... lol)

(and, no, im not a spammer, im a trusted user on mininova and torrentz)

~Taz