The original post: /r/piracy by /u/usrdef on 2025-02-19 03:51:32.

No idea where else to ask this, so I’ll throw it here.

I’ve noticed when I look up movies, that a lot of them now can exceed 50GB, especially for 2K / 4K.

But what I don’t get, is that I’m seeing this with movies from 2001. Why is a movie from 2001, 40GB. Was AI used to re-size the video? And how effective even is that, because I’ve seen a few “enhanced” videos, and they look like someone used a Photoshop filter on them, not good at all.

Is their any benefit to getting those larger files vs smaller?

Just to re-affirm, I’m referring more to older movies. Obviously new movies come in much higher detail.

Here’s an example, so people have data to see

GENERAL INFO
SOURCE : UHD Blu-ray Disc
FORMAT : MKV (Matroska)
SIZE : 51.1 GiB
DURATION : 01:51:44 (h:m:s)
CHAPTERS : Named (01-20)

VIDEO
CODEC : HEVC
TYPE : 2160p
FRAME RATE : 23.976 fps
DISPLAY ASPECT RATIO : 16:9
FORMAT PROFILE LEVEL : Main 10@L5.1@High
BITRATE : 64.0 Mbps
WIDTH x HEIGHT : 3840 x 2160 pixels
COLOR PRIMARIES : BT.2020

AUDIO (1)
CODEC : DTS:X
LANGUAGE : English
CHANNEL(S) : 7.1
BITRATE : 4017 kbps
SAMPLING RATE : 48 kHz
BIT DEPTH : 24 bits
OTHER INFO : DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit

AUDIO (2)
CODEC : AC-3
LANGUAGE : English
CHANNEL(S) : 2.0
BITRATE : 192 kbps
SAMPLING RATE : 48 kHz

It says the resolution on it is 3840 x 2160. But again, this is a movie from 2001, so how beneficial is that much of a resize. Because it seems like at that resize, it would start to really distort the frames.

Yet I notice the frames are 23.976 fps, which to me seems like that is where you’d want to improve. But then again, I’m not sure what technology is available for movies, and to increase frames, you’d have to add frames to keep the movie at the same length / normal speed.