- This could be a huge deal for anyone working on video codecs or display tech. Finding legally clear, high-quality, uncompressed (or mezzanine) 4K HDR footage to test encoders against is surprisingly difficult. Most test footage you find online has already been stomped on by YouTube or Meta compression.
Having the raw EXR sequences and the IMF packages for Sol Levante and Meridian means researchers can finally benchmark AV1 vs HEVC vs VVC using source material that actually has the dynamic range to show the differences. The fact that they included the Dolby vision metadata is the cherry on top.
- Funny how how all the links, including the ones to their own pages, are routed through google.com/url, e.g. the link "Assets Available to Download". Usually tracking isn't quite this visible.
- More recent content from Netflix is part of the ASWF Digital Production Example Library.
https://dpel.aswf.io/
- Do not give netflix -too- much credit for this. Netflix permanently closes distribution of most content they touch and kills the very physical media ownership options for content that they built their empire on.
You will be hard pressed to find a blu-ray or dvd release of any netflix show in the US.
As someone that enjoys having a physical offline media collection, and who does not want to support netflix, I am often forced to buy japanese copies or bootleg copies of netflix shows whereas I can buy legitimate US copies from virtually all other studios.
Even hits like K-Pop demon hunters, netflix has forbidden physical purchase or ownership, so piracy is the only option for those who are not netflix customers or want to watch offline on a blu-ray player on an airplane.
by HelloUsername
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- (2022)?
(Or earlier? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25801075)
- The last addition was made in 2020.
- I was curious about this recently. I was wondering about open files of well known artists.
Unlike netflix/YouTube its not immediately clear to me which Organisation would spearhead something like this out of their own interesting. Closest I know of is the MuseGroup, which are doing this "growing of the pie" with open source music creation Software.
Anyone know of something else?
by Tad_Waganag
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- I found the Sol Levante AE project files to be a huge nothinburger. Like there's nothing there... it's literally just a background and two character layers, no effects or camera moves or anything that would be remotely interesting to a VFX person.
This feels to me like an intentional obfuscation-- like the studio didn't actually want to open-source anything meaningful, or netflix didn't pay them enough to justify collecting huge project files.
- How do I play back the EBU STL subtitles on Linux?
http://download.opencontent.netflix.com.s3.amazonaws.com/ind...
- 34gb for a 5min short film, crazy. High fidelity though
- Meridian is a great way to see what high quality HDR content should look like. The dark parts of the film are beautiful. A shame the rest of Netflix’s catalogue isn’t the same.
by zaptheimpaler
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- Firefox refuses to open the download links with an error like:
Blocked loading mixed active content “http://download.opencontent.netflix.com.s3.amazonaws.com/?de...”
It seems to be something like blocking loading any HTTP request from an HTTPS page. Very annoying :(
- Slightly off-topic, but I notice Cosmos Laundromat (2016) is on that page. One of my favourite animated shorts ever. Something so unique about it. It would be nice to get a feature length version of it, but alas.
- I would like to see them give us an option to turn HDR off. In some situations it is just too bright and in others too dark.
- Is this for some sort of a formal compliance or being able to point out "we host things free of charge too?
by FunnyLookinHat
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- Anyone else surprised that the download links are plain HTTP without SSL? I know it's a page that in the past I would have typically not worried about securing - but nowadays it's SSL everything or else your browser yells at you.
- no Big Buck Bunny...
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by cooper_ganglia
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- Cool! I'm looking forward to going through some of these, looks very interesting!
by andrewstuart
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- There’s basically zero innovation in online video.
Such a pity startups can’t innovate on the content stores of the big companies.
- I love it just because squid game.
by game_the0ry
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- With all that $500K talent, you would think they could make a better looking website.
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