Chvrches Coachella Festival 2014 H264 AC3 720p torrent

Having already uploaded a torrent of these performances at 1080p, I decided to bring them down to a more manageable 720p for weaker machines, and (for me at least) with no perceptible loss in visual quality. In actual fact, there's a small gain in quality for me because my machine lacks the video RAM to render a 1080p stream properly.

Naturally I wouldn't have expected any loss since my monitor is only 1366x768 meaning that 1080p is of no "theoretical" advantage to me. Or, it *wouldn't be* unless the conversion to 720p was done so poorly, say by some hack civil servant working over at BBC headquarters that you can't fire because it's a government job, and who, without fail, every week manages to severely mutilate yet another otherwise perfect Jools Holland program.

That is why I never visit the BBS's YouTube channel; It's just too depressing, especially now since nobody else is allowed to upload that same content.

But, that's not the case here. I do know a little bit about what I'm doing.

Here is the track list again (complete show had 11 tracks):
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1. We Sink
2. Recover
3. Tether
4. Under The Tide
5. The Mother We Share

Here is an example of the video quality numerically (visually is another matter):
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General
Complete name : 1. Chvrches - We Sink @ Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (2014-04-19).avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 106 MiB
Duration : 3mn 59s
Overall bit rate : 3 699 Kbps

Video
ID : 0
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : H264
Duration : 3mn 59s
Bit rate : 3 294 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 4 000 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.119
Stream size : 94.0 MiB (89%)
Writing library : x264 core 123 r2189 35cf912
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=4000 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

Audio
ID : 1
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : 2000
Duration : 3mn 59s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 11.0 MiB (10%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 32 ms (0.96 video frame)

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- user101966