This performance, which I'd originally (and mistakenly) thought occurred in London in 2009, was in fact recorded on July 17, 2008. However the DVD, "Live In London", from whence this avi arose, wasn't released until March 21 2009 and thus causing said chronological confusion.

The above irrelevant fact aside, this video is a near-lossless transplant of the NTSC DVD entitled "Live In London" (released in 2009) to XviD/Avi format at 720 so-called "p"; "p" being a theoretically irrelevant, but factually "critical" unit of measurement associated with audio-video content.

Additionally, both audio streams have been preserved and included in the avi container, and no de-interlacing has been attempted.

Thus the reason I say "near-lossless" instead of lossless (a term properly associated with the verb "to demultiplex") is due to the resizing of the image frame which was done concurrently with the transplant so as to reduce the total number of encodings to exactly 1; and leaving one with an "essential copy" of the original that, were it to be cleaved through lossless (and instant) demultiplex, the result of said cleavage would be granted the "HD" attribute were it to be uploaded to "YouTube", let's say. Although, bearing in mind that this HD attribute would the minimal HD attribute that YouTube provides; ... a kind of "bronze" HD if you will.

In other words, by necessity, there would, in accordance with the "rule of p", be an approximate 40% reduction in quality from your uploaded content. The reason being that this avi, due to the *enormous amount of data* contained within, could have been (and could *still*) be FURTHER EXPANDED without any detectable loss in quality or introduction of compression artifacts, with the aim of achieving values of "p" well in excess 720; values such as "1080" (another milestone), and beyond!

In other words, prior to resizing, the audio visual content within this avi file *was already* High Definition in the sense that it was (and still is) commensurate (quality-wise) with the audio-video content found in your typical HDTV "broadcast (or transmission) stream" captured from your local television provider.

And "p" has fuck-all to do with it.

Anyway, so if you want to be a real YouTube hotshot you could simply upload this avi as is; *without alteration*.

To become a YouTube "Superstar" you could further resize it to as many "p" as would be demanded by your sense of your own masculinity and, though not required, the size of your corresponding member.

Problem is (if you don't already know) the process takes (and took) about 10 hours.

Video Information:
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General
Complete name                            : Leonard Cohen - Live in London (Audio Streams 1. Mp3 192kbps 48KHz 2. AC3-5.1 LCR,LR,LFE 448Kbps 48HKz).avi
Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile                           : OpenDML
File size                                : 5.32 GiB
Duration                                 : 2h 37mn
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 4 850 Kbps
Writing application                      : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)
Writing library                          : VirtualDubMod build 2178/release

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile                           : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP                    : 1
Format settings, QPel                    : No
Format settings, GMC                     : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix                  : Custom
Codec ID                                 : XVID
Codec ID/Hint                            : XviD
Duration                                 : 2h 37mn
Bit rate                                 : 4 206 Kbps
Width                                    : 960 pixels
Height                                   : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.203
Stream size                              : 4.61 GiB (87%)
Writing library                          : XviD 64

Audio #1
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 3
Mode                                     : Joint stereo
Mode extension                           : MS Stereo
Codec ID                                 : 55
Codec ID/Hint                            : MP3
Duration                                 : 2h 37mn
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 182 Kbps
Nominal bit rate                         : 192 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 205 MiB (4%)
Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 24 ms (0.72 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 514 ms
Writing library                          : LAME3.98r
Encoding settings                        : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 18.6 --abr 192
Language                                 : English

Audio #2
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension                           : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Codec ID                                 : 2000
Duration