x264 Demo Blu-ray torrent

From http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=328 :

Thanks to tireless work by Kieran Kunyha, Alex Giladi, Lamont Alston, and the Doom9 crowd, x264 can now produce Blu-ray-compliant video. Extra special thanks to The Criterion Collection [1] for sponsoring the final compliance test to confirm x264’s Blu-ray compliance.

With x264’s powerful compression, as demonstrated by the incredibly popular BD-Rebuilder Blu-ray backup software [2], it’s quite possible to author Blu-ray disks on DVD9s (dual-layer DVDs [3]) or even DVD5s (single-layer DVDs) with a reasonable level of quality. With a free software encoder and less need for an expensive Blu-ray burner, we are one step closer to putting HD optical media creation in the hands of the everyday user.

To celebrate this achievement, we are making available for download a demo Blu-ray encoded with x264, containing entirely free content!

On this Blu-ray are the Open Movie Project films Big Buck Bunny [4] and Elephant’s Dream [5], available under a Creative Commons license [6]. Additionally, Microsoft has graciously provided about 6 minutes of lossless HD video and audio (from part of a documentary project) under a very liberal license. This footage rounds out the Blu-ray by adding some difficult live-action content in addition to the relatively compressible CGI footage from the Open Movie Project. Finally, we used this sound sample [7], available under a Creative Commons license [8].

You may notice that the Blu-ray image is only just over 2GB. This is intentional; we have encoded all the content on the disk at appropriate bitrates to be playable from an ordinary 4.7GB DVD. This should make it far easier to burn a copy of the Blu-ray, since Blu-ray burners and writable media are still relatively rare. Most Blu-ray players will treat a DVD containing Blu-ray data as a normal Blu-ray disc. A few, such as the Playstation 3, will not, but you can still play it as a data disc.

1. http://www.criterion.com/
2. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=143716
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-R_DL
4. http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/
5. http://www.elephantsdream.org/
6. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
7. http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=60453
8. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/