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AnyStream is having some DRM issues currently, Netflix is not available in HD for the time being.
Situations like this will always happen with AnyStream: streaming providers are continuously improving their countermeasures while we try to catch up, it's an ongoing cat-and-mouse game. Please be patient and don't flood our support or forum with requests, we are working on it 24/7 to get it resolved. Thank you.
oppps! Competition is rolling out...come on RedFox!
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Actually, it has NF, AMZN, DSP+ (just downloaded trial)
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3 downloads but you shouldn't need 50 downloads to make your decision. The major thing I noticed is, no option to download faster and requires to watch while it downloads. I guess that's where batch downloads come in hand. I still prefer AnyStream but this other might be of use for D+
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So it is just one of the "video grab" programs, like the other popular one (forgot the name)?
I don't think it's a screen grab. You can resize the window and even speed up the playback with out messing with the end file. I did notice the bit rate is higher with the "other guys". Here the media info for the same file downloaded from both apps:
"other guys"
AnyStream:
I'm too big a noob to be able to tell which file is "better"
"other guys"
Code:
General
Complete name : V:\#recycle\New Rips\AnyStream\Octonauts_S01E01_The Undersea Storm _ The Giant Squid.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
File size : 887 MiB
Duration : 23 min 28 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 5 283 kb/s
Collection : Octonauts
Season : 4
Track name : The Undersea Storm / The Giant Squid
Description : It's reef lobsters to the rescue when Kwazii's Gup-B breaks down; the Octonauts launch a determined search for an elusive giant squid.
Recorded date : 2010
Writing application : DVDFab Video Downloader
Part_ID : 1
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L4
Format settings : CABAC / 1 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 1 frame
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=24
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 23 min 28 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 5 151 kb/s
Maximum bit rate : 5 500 kb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.099
Stream size : 865 MiB (98%)
Codec configuration box : avcC
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC SBR
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity with Spectral Band Replication
Commercial name : HE-AAC
Format settings : Implicit
Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
Duration : 23 min 28 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 23.438 FPS (2048 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 21.5 MiB (2%)
Default : Yes
Alternate group : 1AnyStream:
Code:
General
Complete name : V:\New Rips\AnyStream\Octonauts - 01x01 - The Undersea Storm - The Giant Squid.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41/iso6/piff)
File size : 474 MiB
Duration : 23 min 28 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 2 820 kb/s
Movie name : The Undersea Storm / The Giant Squid
Encoded date : UTC 2020-12-18 02:51:27
Tagged date : UTC 2020-12-18 02:51:27
Comment : It's reef lobsters to the rescue when Kwazii's Gup-B breaks down; the Octonauts launch a determined search for an elusive giant squid.
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4
Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 4 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 23 min 28 s
Source duration : 1 min 59 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 2 688 kb/s
Maximum bit rate : 20.0 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.052
Stream size : 451 MiB (95%)
Source stream size : 451 MiB (95%)
Writing library : x264 core 148 r2715 7e75228
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=4 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x111 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=120 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / stitchable=1 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=16 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=126 / scenecut=0 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=250 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=24.0 / qcomp=0.50 / qpmin=6 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / vbv_maxrate=20000 / vbv_bufsize=25000 / crf_max=0.0 / nal_hrd=vbr / filler=0 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:0.80
Encoded date : UTC 2020-12-18 02:51:27
Tagged date : UTC 2020-12-18 02:51:27
mdhd_Duration : 1408480
Codec configuration box : avcC
Audio
ID : 2
Format : E-AC-3
Format/Info : Enhanced AC-3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital Plus
Codec ID : ec-3
Duration : 23 min 28 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 21.5 MiB (5%)
Language : English
Service kind : Complete Main
Encoded date : UTC 2020-12-18 02:51:27
Tagged date : UTC 2020-12-18 02:51:27
Text
ID : 3
Format : Timed Text
Muxing mode : sbtl
Codec ID : tx3g
Duration : 1 min 17 s
Source duration : 22 min 46 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 46 b/s
Stream size : 451 Bytes (0%)
Source stream size : 12.2 KiB (0%)
Title : English / English
Language : English
Forced : No
Encoded date : UTC 2020-12-18 02:51:27
Tagged date : UTC 2020-12-18 02:51:27I'm too big a noob to be able to tell which file is "better"
They are not the only competitors with batch. Like the other one they do a RAW grab of the uncompressed video packets and recompress on-the-fly. You are getting re-encoded video, not lossless. That is not acceptable for me. I can tell you I have downloaded the encrypted files and compared the size & meta data and AS is 1:1 whereas these other guys are not.
It's the same episode from both apps so the comparison is valid. The reason I posted it is because I don't know how to read the results
How else could you compare the out put from both apps?
How is it easy to spot? Do you mind explaining what red flags you see? I would like to know for future reference.
Basically you can check it in the task manager and see what takes up resources and which resources remain the same when the process or program is closed.
Example:
Open the Windows task manager.
Look for the task,
Looks not very suspicious at the first look but if you look closer you will see a spike in GPU utilization.
(Please note that this is a multi GPU system and the process / program assigned one of the GPU's for decoding and another for encoding)
This is definitively an encode and not an download, you can see this as it has the same process name and if you close the Monkey tool the process disappears in the task manager.
I was surprised that they use GPU encoding and not CPU encoding.
(Please note that if you have one GPU it might be easier to spot the process compared to a multi GPU system)
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