"think we can all agree that the War on Disney was certainly helpful to achieve this." Anyone who believes this, has their nose so far up the American culture wars they might suffocate on it. Bipartisan support ? Disney didn't even try extending this copyright any further. If they would have, it'd have been a 3+ year effort if not more to get it done. This is why most people already knew about 3 years ago that this day was coming. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:48, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This new version comes from a Wikipedia:Blu-Ray and has been compressed with Wikipedia:AV1 at crf30 + Wikipedia:Opus (audio format) at a surprisingly low 40kbps in mono sound (I believe all versions of the toon are in mono, but can't confirm. The BR is mono.) The video looks indistinguishable from the existing file but is much smaller. It also skips the pure black, silent frames at the start and end. 40kbps makes sense when you realize this is 100 year old early sound-recording and sound-on-film technology. I was unable to find any audible difference between the Opus and the original audio, but if someone else does, feel free to copy over the AV1 video and incorporate a higher bitrate audio track. This is by no means the final word on the short:
I am not an AV1 expert and someone could encode a better version with more attention to its many settings and encoders.
AV1 itself will be superceded at some point with new versions.
I suspect various fans, commercial outfits, and archives already have their own film scans of the short, or are working on them. The cartoon flickers in a way I'm guessing was not how it looked in the 1920s. It could also be scanned at a higher resolution e.g. 4K. and with less compression (even the source BR shows some artifacts where thick black lines meet background). When new scans come online and have some attention placed on restoring them, this Blu-Ray rip will likely be superseded. Fans have done similar scans for other films. There is a scan here but it has a lot of issues, namely that it's already compressed by Twitter. https://archive.org/details/twitter-1741685684035887244
i think we should add the Urheberrechtlich geschützt from this video into all of the other steamboat willie videos here, they not much different and can be used as loopholes. but maybe that just me idk AuroraANovaUma (talk) 19:12, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
