Title: Breaking Bad (2008-2013)
IMDB: tt0903747
Runtime: ~48 minutes per episode, 62 episodes
Size: 54.6 GiB
Video (AV1):
1920x1080 - 10-bit SDR - Average bitrates:
S01 - 3157 kbps | S03 - 1497 kbps | S05 - 1605 kbps
Audio (E-AC3):
English 5.1 - 640 kbps
Subtitles (31x SRT):
English, English SDH, Spanish, European Spanish, French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Greek, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese.
In some episodes the first subtitle track is English Forced, which is enabled by default.
Source: Breaking.Bad.S01.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.AV1-Saon - a release for each season by Saon
AV1 Compatibility: Windows/Android: VLC or MPV players - TVs: Native on most smart TVs from 2020 or newer.
More AV1 content: All AV1 releases on 1337x
About video quality: For this encode, Netflix used the most recent remaster, which means it has better-looking colors and sharper detail than 1080p Bluray throughout all 5 seasons. The video also has very little noise compared to Bluray, in this case it's likely due to AV1 encoding. Frankly, these AV1 encodes from Netflix still struggle to maintain consistent quality in challenging scenes, but at least the artifacts don't include banding; with current av1 encoders it's challenging to get it right on some types of scenes without extensive tweaking by hand. Season 1 has higher bitrate than other seasons, mostly due to it being the most grainy, and therefore hard to compress. Depending on your preference, and your tolerance for the occasional artefacts in grainy scenes, you might even prefer this to the 1080p Blu-ray Remux, due to Netflix using a more modern master of Breaking Bad.
Screenshot comparison: Blu-ray Remux vs AV1 WEB-DL
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