#video formats

[thriftrescue]

WARGAMES RCA VIDEODISC seen at thrift!!!! Besides the M.A.S.K. Toy collection that I found -- THIS HAS GOT to be the best thrift of 2025!!! This format is how I watched Empire Strikes Back and Man from Snowy River! Amazing... and maybe too ahead of it's time.

[yet-another-wlw-shipper]

Tumblr video format guide

a.k.a. How to make a video I downloaded from TikTok/Twitter not to look like crap here.

So, this is something I learned the hard way, and I decided to share it with you all. Especially videos from TikTok look awful here if you don't re-encode them.

There's this Tumblr help page about posting videos that says

Well, I downloaded Handbrake and these are the presets you'll see

You most definitely don't want to use General -> HQ 720p30 Surround, because it adds two audio tracks, and I'm not sure if it's even Tumblr compatible. Fast or Very Fast 720p30 should be ok to use.

If you're using other video editors/tools, the main point seems to be that you are using

H264 encoder with Main profile (or Baseline profile if you want to play safe) and level = 3.1

MP4 file/container

FPS, audio format and video resolution don't seem to matter so much but probably better to use recommended/most used values/formats, i.e.

FPS = 30

Audio format = AAC LC

Video resolution = 720p (but avoid upscaling). 720p is the best for videos downloaded from TikTok/Twitter, but if you're uploading your own videos with good picture quality and bitrates, 1080p should be fine also.

[fuzzyghost]

[himitsusentaiblog]

What were the first Super Sentai and Power Ranger shows to be released on discs? And were they released in VHS before that?

Oh yes, Super Sentai has a long history on VHS before the advent of discs. 

Then again, the first disc format most Super Sentai saw a release in wasn’t DVD but the older, analog format Laserdisc. For the longest time, this was the preferred method for fans (especially those of us in the US) to get their shows on.  It wasn’t region-coded (neither was VHS though as the US used the same NTSC format as Japan) and the video quality was far superior.  In fact, the first ever piece of Japanese Super Sentai media I purchased was a laserdisc copy of Chouriki Sentai Ohranger vs. Kakuranger.

Power Rangers was coming out on VHS just shortly after it premiered in the US.  I still remember seeing these garishly illustrated covers for individual episodes on the shelves at the local Suncoast.

Toei didn’t start released Super Sentai on DVD in Japan until the format really started to take off, which is kind of a funny story.  DVD wasn’t a hot item over there because Laserdisc was really popular and people didn’t want to switch and have to buy all of their media again.  It took the release of the Playstation 2 with its built in DVD drive to popularize the format.  The PS2 was going to be a hit, following on from the stellar success of the original so Sony took the chance to try and push this new video format as well with it and once people had the system in their homes, they would naturally start using it to watch movies.  It was a pretty ingenious ploy and lead to the explosion of DVD sales in Japan.

Then, DVD totally took off and Super Sentai started getting released on that format as well.

As for Power Rangers, well, that’s been on DVD for a while but as a personal anecdote, I once owned Power Rangers: The Movie on Laserdisc.

Thanks for the question!

[slashdementia7734]

D-VHS History: A Confusing DRM-Laden Video Format That Looked Great

It’s pretty much the answer to a trivia question at this point, but there was once a version of VHS that looked better than DVDs. Really.

if you don't read Tedium.co, you're face is gonna stay like that...

[bastionofbibliophiles]

I find it a bit amusing that the absolute MAXIMUM quality of an NTSC DVD movie is 720 × 480 pixels at 29.97 frames per second. It doesn't matter what cameras were used to film it or what device you use to display it, the format just does not support anything higher.

And that used to be considered high-quality video! It was a big deal for my family when my dad got a great deal on a 480p widescreen TV and we got to experience the full viewing potential of DVDs for the first time!

Compare that to today, where smartphones are being offered with 4K displays so you can stream 3840 × 2160 pixels, 60-frames-per-second videos from YouTube over Wi-Fi (or even cellular networks if you have a good connection).

For reference, here is a frame from the DVD version of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl displayed at 100% scale in a 4K UHD frame (original image is 3840 × 2160 pixels, which will be downscaled to 2048 × 1152 pixels by Tumblr since that's the widest image they support):

The black bars at the top and bottom of the movie frame are there because this movie, like many major films, was filmed at a 2.39:1 aspect ratio, not the 16:9 of consumer HD video formats, so the actual used resolution of the DVD frame is only 720 × 360 pixels. Those black bars are just wasted space.

You might notice that 720:360 simplifies to 2:1, not 2.39:1, and that DVD's maximum resolution for ostensibly-HD video of 720:480 simplifies to 3:2, not 16:9. This is because DVD video is often not displayed with square pixels, as a holdover from pre-digital television technology. Standard-definition broadcast color television has an aspect ratio of 4:3 with 480 horizontal lines at 29.97 frames per second (59.94 interlaced fields per second). With square pixels, that would have a width of 640 pixels. That fits fine within the frame of a DVD video, leaving 40-pixel-wide black bars on the left and right sides of the digital frame. But for widescreen 16:9 video with 480 horizontal lines, you would need 854 (precisely 853.333..., which usually gets rounded up) pixels, or 134 pixels wider than will fit on a DVD. The DVD video format deals with that by squashing the video horizontally to fit, then telling the TV or computer to display it with a pixel aspect ratio of 1.186:1 to stretch it out to the right size. So if you watched the DVD version of The Curse of the Black Pearl at "full size" on a 4K UHD screen, you'd probably see it like this, at 100% height but 118.6% width:

Slightly wider, but still pretty darn tiny.

[xipe-slayground]

Hierarchies:

Betamax Male

SelectaVision Male

VHS Male

U-Matic Male

Laserdisc Male

DVD Male

UMD Male

HD-DVD Male

Blu-Ray Male

Blu-Ray 4k UHD Male

[theseoworkshop]

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