Band of Brothers Complete series 2001 DVDrip 1028x600 ac3 5.1 MP4 -TDR-

I have upscaled this DVD rip just a little , as this program uses a lot of film grain, so any pixelation would make that film grain look terrible, so the aspect ratio needs to be kept intact. and the picture reasonably close to it's source resolution (720x576). This way it can be upscaled enough, without losing the image.

The grain still does affect it a bit, but the action scenes, where you normally expect an encode to show it's flaws, they remove the film grain and they look great.

These are reasonably large files, but we kept the high quality audio and these files are anywhere between 55 mins to 1hr 10 minutes. So they are long, each episode it tweaked against it's length to squeeze in the max bitrate without going over quota. which, was roughly a 1 gig per episode except for the really long ones.

So while it may not break any records, Roughly speaking I have turned 95 gig of video into just over 9.5 gig So %10 of the original size is actually what I was aiming for.

There will be a blue ray rip coming.

This has been encoded in MP4 to make it compatible with the most devices. This is a mid quality, compatibility orientated release, designed to work with as much as possible. But not aiming to be of blue ray quality, only to take as much of the source data as possible(DVD).

I have not included the extras on this release. That is being saved for the blue ray version

I have added full info tags to all episodes, all the correct info should be there.

Encode info:(taken from one episode as a basic guide, as i tweaked certain eps..but not very much they are basically all around the same settings))

Format : MPEG-4 (ALL)
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42 (mp42)
File size : 1.05 GiB
Duration : 53mn 30s(up to 1hr 9mins)
Overall bit rate : 2 818 Kbps (average)
Collection : Band of Brothers DVD
Album : Band of Brothers,Season 1
Track name : Crossroads(all)
Director : Tom Hanks
Codirector : codirector
Actor : Damian Lewis / Ron Livingston / Donnie Wahlberg / Michael Fassbender / Peter O'Meara / Andrew Scott / Ben Caplan / Dexter

Fletcher / Simon Pegg / Craig Heaney / Frank John Hughes / Shane Taylor / Matthew Settle / Ross McCall / Rick Warden / Doug Allen / Michael Cudlitz /

Eion Bailey / Tom Hardy / Marc Warren / Douglas Spain / Robin Laing / Peter Youngblood Hills / James Madio / Nicholas Aaron / Neal McDonough / Scott

Grimes / Kirk Acevedo / Matthew Leitch / Nolan Hemmings / James McAvoy / Richard Speight Jr. / Dale Dye / Peter McCabe / Rick Gomez / David Schwimmer

Screenplay by : Erik Jendreson
Production studio : studio
Genre : Action
ContentType : Unknown Type
Recorded date : 2001-09-30
Encoded date : UTC 2016-04-11 21:55:31
Tagged date : UTC 2016-04-11 21:55:31
Cover : Yes
Comment : Information courtesy of The TVDB (http://www.thetvdb.com). / / A -TDR- Release

TVNetworkName : HBO

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Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
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Stream size : 964 MiB (89%)
Language : English

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Default : Yes
Alternate group : 1

1 "Currahee"

Easy Company is introduced during its training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, under First Lieutenant Herbert Sobel, a very strict

disciplinarian who seems to train his company harder and longer than the commanders of other companies. Sobel also goes out of his way to find fault with

the men and the platoon leaders. The company is shipped to England to prepare for D-Day. As training progresses, Sobel's inadequacies as a leader in the

field become more apparent and cause most of the non-commissioned officers in the company to attempt to resign en masse. He also causes a dispute with

his executive officer, Richard Winters, that escalates higher than Sobel expected. These events lead to Sobel being reassigned to command a jump school

for essential non-combat personnel.

2 "Day of Days"

Easy Company lands in Normandy, but is scattered all across the region and away from their designated drop zone. 1st Lieutenant Meehan, commander of

Easy, is killed when his plane suffers a direct hit and 1st Lieutenant Winters must take command. With a small group of men, Winters takes out a set of

German gun emplacements at Brécourt and thereby wins the respect of his fellow soldiers as a leader. Recently promoted 1st Lt. Speirs is introduced.

3 "Carentan"

Easy Company fights in the Battle of Carentan, in which they lose several men. Rumors start to circulate that Lieutenant Speirs

killed a group of German prisoners of war. The episode focuses on Private Albert Blithe, who struggles with shell-shock following the battle. After he is

finally spurred into action by Winters during the Battle of Bloody Gulch, Blithe overcomes his fears. Several days later, he is shot by a German sniper

after volunteering to be lead scout in a patrol (the ending erroneously states Blithe died from his wounds in 1948; in fact, he recovered and continued

to serve in the Army until his death in December 1967).

4 "Replacements"

Replacements join Easy Company, struggling to be accepted by the veterans who fought at Normandy. The Company parachutes into the

Netherlands as part of Operation Market Garden, where they liberate Eindhoven. During combat in Nuenen, the replacements integrate themselves with the

Company, but all are forced to retreat. The episode follows Sergeant Denver "Bull" Randleman, the replacements' immediate superior, as he evades German

soldiers in Nuenen after being cut off from his unit and is forced to wait there until the enemy leaves in the morning.

5 "Crossroads"

Winters writes a report on the challenge of an unexpected resistance to a German attack, and is haunted by his conscience after

shooting a teenage German SS soldier. This flashback occurs several times in later episodes. Operation Pegasus is depicted. Easy Company is called to

Bastogne at the start of the Battle of the Bulge. At the end of the episode, Captain Winters now effectively commands the whole battalion.

6 "Bastogne"

Easy Company experiences the Battle of the Bulge and have to hold ground near Bastogne, while running low on ammunition and other supplies. The episode

focuses on medic Eugene "Doc" Roe as he helps out his fellow soldiers where he can, while also scrounging for medical supplies, of which the Company is

dangerously low. He also befriends a Belgian nurse in Bastogne, who is later killed during a German bombing raid.

7 "The Breaking Point"

Easy Company battles near Foy, Belgium, losing numerous men. The episode examines and questions the actions of 1st Lieutenant Norman Dike, the Company's

commander. He is eventually relieved by 1st Lieutenant Ronald Speirs, who becomes the Company's new leader. Serving as narrator is First Sergeant Carwood

Lipton, who attempts to keep the morale of the men up as they endure their trials in the forest near Foy, earning him a battlefield promotion to 2nd

Lieutenant for his leadership ability.

8 "The Last Patrol"
Easy Company carries out a dangerous mission in Haguenau as David Webster (who narrates) returns from a hospital.

Together with new replacement 2nd Lieutenant Jones, he eventually (re)integrates with the other soldiers, whose experiences at Bastogne have made them

weary and closed-off from Webster due to the fact he didn't try to leave hospital early, unlike other soldiers in the company. At the end of the episode,

Captain Winters is promoted to Major, Lipton receives his battlefield commission to 2nd Lieutenant, and Jones is promoted to 1st Lieutenant.

9 "Why We Fight"

As Nixon scrounges for his favored whiskey, Vat 69, Easy Company enters Germany. Some of the men on patrol stumble across a concentration camp near Landsberg and free the prisoners after realizing that the guards had abandoned the camp. The sight of the victims leaves many shocked and disgusted.

10 "Points"

The company captures the Eagle's Nest in Berchtesgaden, and also discover Hermann Göring's house. The battalion heads out to Austria where the end of the war in Europe is announced. While those with enough points go home, the remainder of Easy Company stays behind until the end of the Pacific War is declared.