This is a wonderful movie from Zhang Yimou, a real piece of art, yet open to every audience.
There was nothing I could do to remove the french subtitles, they were hardcoded by the HD DVB-T channel ARTE (at least they give us a very nice version and free of any logo on screen !).
Still, most of those subtitles are below the picture, and since there's no blu-ray of Red Sorghum as I write these lines and ARTE broadcasted such a good encode, this is BY FAR the best version available today afaik.
Beside, tough this should be displayed as 16:9 in 1920x1080p (you might have to force it with VLC, Media Player recognize it automatically), it doesn't include that much information, I don't advertise it as 1080p proper, it really has as much detail as 1440x1080 (4:3, which induce VLC in error, at least by me), such are the characteristics of this particular DVB-T broadcast.
Enjoy!
Some snapshots:
Some data:
Format : Matroska
File size : 4.21 GiB
Duration : 1h 28mn
Overall bit rate : 6 823 Kbps
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 28mn
Bit rate : 6 431 Kbps
Width : 1 440 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Original display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.165
Stream size : 3.97 GiB (94%)
Title : PID 720 Video
Color primaries : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
Transfer characteristics : BT.709-5, BT.1361
Matrix coefficients : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177
Audio
ID : 2
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 2
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : A_MPEG/L2
Codec ID/Hint : MP2
Duration : 1h 28mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 256 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 7ms
Stream size : 162 MiB (4%)
Title : MPEG1
Language : Chinese
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