Synopsis:
Bong Joon Ho brings his work home to Korea in this pitch-black modern fairytale. Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist, to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide “indispensable” luxury services while the Parks obliviously bankroll their entire household. When a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims’ newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks.
Uploader Notes:
Was looking for a good encode of this movie on the scene with the retail PGS subs and couldn’t find one so I sourced a bluray remux and did my own encode. This is a high bitrate 2pass encode mainly because I absolutely hate compression artifacts in live action movies. The video looks virtually identical to the 32 gig bluray remux. The PGS subs are from the HKG bluray and not the shitty OCR’d typo ridden SRT prevalent in every scene release. Audio is not converted to FLAC mainly because Dolby Atmos to FLAC is not a lossless conversion due to the height channels in Dolby Atmos using object based encoding. It is possible to pass the height channels into FLAC without converting them but at that point the file size difference is marginal because TrueHD is fairly efficient at losslessly compressing. I also chose scene naming conventions for the file mainly because my live action movie collection is all scene releases.
Mediainfo:
General
Unique ID : 281295827889968551271003806973186617043 (0xD39F9B16C96B3B8867963E5991B12ED3)
Complete name : Parasite.2019.Bluray.1080p.TrueHD.7.1.Atmos.x264-Tess.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
File size : 16.7 GiB
Duration : 2 h 12 min
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 18.1 Mb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2020-02-09 00:39:26
Writing application : mkvmerge v43.0.0 (‘The Quartermaster’) 64-bit
Writing library : libebml v1.3.10 + libmatroska v1.5.2Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2 h 12 min
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 14.0 Mb/s
Maximum bit rate : 30.0 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.282
Stream size : 12.9 GiB (77%)
Writing library : x264 core 157 r2969 d4099dd
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=4 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / slices=4 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=1 / keyint=24 / keyint_min=1 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=24 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=14020 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=30000 / vbv_bufsize=30000 / nal_hrd=vbr / filler=0 / ip_ratio=1.10 / aq=1:1.00
Default : Yes
Forced : NoAudio
ID : 2
Format : Atmos / TrueHD
Codec ID : A_TRUEHD
Duration : 2 h 12 min
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 042 kb/s
Maximum bit rate : 6 816 kb/s
Channel(s) : Object Based / 8 channels
Channel positions : Object Based / Front: L C R, Side: L R, Back: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : / 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 1 200.000 FPS (40 spf)
Compression mode : Lossless
Stream size : 3.73 GiB (22%)
Language : Korean
Default : Yes
Forced : NoText
ID : 3
Format : PGS
Muxing mode : zlib
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Duration : 2 h 5 min
Bit rate : 41.2 kb/s
Count of elements : 3319
Stream size : 37.0 MiB (0%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : NoMenu
00:00:00.000 : en:Chapter 1
00:05:44.802 : en:Chapter 2
00:12:16.610 : en:Chapter 3
00:20:35.484 : en:Chapter 4
00:29:21.926 : en:Chapter 5
00:37:05.348 : en:Chapter 6
00:46:19.943 : en:Chapter 7
00:53:52.979 : en:Chapter 8
01:02:55.646 : en:Chapter 9
01:12:10.242 : en:Chapter 10
01:23:25.834 : en:Chapter 11
01:32:19.659 : en:Chapter 12
01:41:22.284 : en:Chapter 13
01:48:21.912 : en:Chapter 14
01:56:07.502 : en:Chapter 15
02:07:06.744 : en:Chapter 16
Comments - 9
herkz
well this release has existed for a month
Tesseract (uploader)
I mainly encoded my own because I wanted the retail PGS subs and not OCR’d SRTs and I also prefer fully loseless audio for my live action movies. I mainly just uploaded my own encode because releases of this film are lacking on public trackers and other releases didn’t have the PGS subs.
herkz
you can definitely find that release on public trackers. i googled the filename and there was 14k hits.
Tesseract (uploader)
I’m sure ZQ’s release is fine but it still lacks the PGS subs I know most people don’t care what format the subtitles are in but I prefer to have the PGS subs mainly to just avoid typos, scene groups I’ve found aren’t the best at spellchecking OCR’d scripts which is why I’d rather just have the PGS because then I know it doesn’t contain typos.
herkz
ZQ isn’t a scene group and the description i pasted clearly says they spellchecked the subs to make sure there aren’t any typos
Tesseract (uploader)
I simply prefer PGS to SRT it’s partly a paranoia thing and partly because PGS looks much cleaner in video players. I don’t know if an OCR’d SRT contains typos which is why I prefer the PGS file hence why I view it as a paranoia thing. I’m by no means saying ZQ contains typos just paranoid.
CheekyKoala
hahahhahahaa what? PGS is literally scaled bitmaps. They look garbage, and are often even piss-coloured to top it off.
surume
Thanks tesseract parasite
junh1024
Can you tell me what software you could use to “pass the height channels into FLAC”?