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Movie: Crocodile Dundee (Australian Cut)
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090555/
Rating: 6.6/10 (99,000 votes)
Video: 720x306 10 bit AV1
Duration: 01:44:37
Size: 577MB
Settings: Constant Quality 22, cpu-used 2
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Audio: Opus Mono 64kbps
Languages: English
Subtitles: None
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Encoded by: TheSpectre
Group: AV1D
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Encoder: aomenc
Version: 3.1.2-771-g26af456a7
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Tools: Av1an (Rust) 0.1.1 962f880764a9d91fd90bba52e31978b9450980ef
MKVToolNix v60.0.0 ('Are We Copies?')
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The Movie:
An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.
Director: Peter Faiman
Writers: Paul Hogan (original story), Ken Shadie (screenplay), John Cornell (screenplay)
Stars: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon
About:
AV1 is a modern free format providing amazing quality
at lower bitrates than h.264/265.
For improving AV1 playback use the mpv video player and follow this guide:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/gjq2mv/drastically_improving_av1_playback/
If you still can't get it to play, try using VLC and a mid
to high end Android/iDevice from 2016 or beyond. And even
Chrome can play it if you rename the .mkv to .webm!
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Lastly: As an attempt to spread and hopefully popularize AV1,
here's my encode command for this encode:
av1an -i input -e aom -v " --cpu-used=2 --enable-chroma-deltaq=1 --quant-b-adapt=1 --lag-in-frames=48 --end-usage=q --cq-level=22 --kf-max-dist=240 " -a " -an " --sc-method slow -x 480 --min-scene-len 24 -w 8 --concat mkvmerge -o output
Encoder's Notes: This is the uncut Australian version of the film.
About six minutes was cut for the International market, and various Aussie slang and curse words were removed or (poorly) dubbed over.
As for the video quality, sadly, there isn't much to speak of. This version only got one DVD master back in 1997.
I've done my best to clean it up, but there isn't much you can do with a hard-interlaced, grainy, blocky DVD that's been sped up to 25 fps (which I've corrected) and letterboxed.
As for the film itself, it's a classic that's sadly had much of its heart gutted for international markets, being left to die on a budget DVD and never to be seen in HD by the general public.
Regardless, I'm releasing this in an attempt to bring the superior Aussie version to a broader audience. Enjoy!
