Tears of Steel
Live action and computer graphics in the same frame, shot in Amsterdam. The mix of real skin tones, hard sunlight and rendered robots makes it unusually hard to encode, which is why it turns up in so many codec comparisons.
Tears of Steel, 2012. Blender Foundation, released under CC BY 3.0. This is the same player and the same delivery every video on fastmotion gets.
The file
- Runtime
- 12:14
- Frame
- 1920 x 800 as we received it. We never upscale, so that is the top rung here.
- Made by
- Blender Foundation, 2012
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0. Free to stream, embed, edit and use commercially, as long as you credit Blender Foundation.
- Qualities here
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- Stream URL
https://s.fastmotion.io/cd7ec8f0-3136-41cd-bb8b-117edb7cda39/playlist.m3u8
Point hls.js, video.js, VLC, ffplay or a mobile SDK straight at it.- Embed
<iframe src="https://fastmotion.io/p.php?v=UC9VL5KE" allowfullscreen></iframe>- Master file
- Download the original at the source. We stream a prepared version, the source keeps the full quality master.
What this one is good for testing
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- Film grain and skin tone
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- Bright outdoor highlights
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- Fast camera moves
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- CG composited over live action
Comparing encoders? The bitrate comparison runs one clip through four different bitrates so you can see where the picture gives up. Or read what adaptive streaming actually does.
The other four
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- 14:48, 720p, CC BY 3.0
- Big Buck Bunny
- 10:34, 4K, CC BY 3.0
- Cosmos Laundromat
- 12:10, 720p, CC BY 4.0
- Agent 327: Operation Barbershop
- 3:51, 720p, CC BY 4.0