My Blu-Ray rips are always taken DIRECTLY from the actual blu-rays, not re-encodings of an earlier h264 torrent, and not "filled in" with web downloads. HEVC is a superb machine, but it should be given quality raw materials.


This is my h265 (HEVC) 10 bit LE high quality 1080p rip of the theatrical version of Alien, taken directly from my blu-ray, from the Alien Anthology box set.

Unusually, the "director's cut" of Alien, which I'm encoding now, is slightly shorter than this, but has some key scenes included, and some scenes from the theatrical version are deleted.

I used x265 in single pass CRF mode (21), at the "veryslow" highest quality level. Encoding required about 4 days.

I have to say that I think x265 has done a superb job and has rendered a very, very good full HD version of the blu-ray, in about 2.44Gb. I chopped the horizontal borders, giving a height of 816 pixels.

The audio is 5.1 AC3 at 384kbps. Finally, the English subtitles are included (soft coded).

Enjoy, and please, please, continue to seed after you have downloaded. Please click on a screenshot to view the full version.

Video: 1920 x 818p |  23.976 fps | h265 10 Bit LE | Chroma 4:2:0
Audio: AC3 5.1 | 384kbps
Subtitles:  Subrip SRT