Hunni, how's the quality in dvd? Is it better than this one?
Mist upload the Mermaid and quality way better than Demi God Khmer dubbed.
Quite an interesting subject I've been wanting to talk about again. The logical answer is SPP uses bad sources for their dubbing, or compresses their DVD format very poorly. I think it's the latter, especially after seeing their HD episode of Swordsman on the website, which is much clearer than my DVD quality -- or maybe a combination of bad sources too.
The reason for under 250MB:
When Khmer Access first started, me and several early uploaders including superman did a few days of encoding researches for what would be the best software and format to use. We began testing out through FTP and upload streaming websites like Youtube and Dailymotion. At the time, we found out no matter how big your file is, YT and Daily Motion will heavily compress the video file -- a 30 minute video that was 300MB+ in file size, uploaded to the server will only be streamed under 140MB to viewers. They will only stream at a low bitrate. This has been true for all streaming sites except for FTP uploads. As a result from many researched factors, we decided to use 160-180MB for a 30 minute video clip, which was a size universally accepted by most sites and still within good quality.
250MB for a 35 minutes clip is more than good, as shown in Mist's first episode of the mermaid (he added through FTP uncompressed at 257MB). He uploaded episode 2 through Vid.me, which compressed it to 228MB (Mist said the original size was 244MB) resulting in some quality loss you might've noticed during playback. Good video source, which is typical in Two Doves/HM DVD format.
Honestly, throughout the years of encoding SPP dubbed series I've noticed the quality in video source has never been great and only a small difference in quality between encoding at 250MB and 350MB. But they are the king of dubbing and I will always prefer them.