A successful cocaine dealer, who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite, plans an early retirement from the business. However, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy's old pal Edward, a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal Serbian gang and a whole series of double crossings. The title "LAYER CAKE" refers to the layers or levels anyone in business goes through in rising to the top. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no 'codes', or 'families' and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust, he has to use all his 'savvy', 'telling' and skills which make him one of the best, to escape his own. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy, and an international drug ring threaten to draw him back into the 'cake mix'. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime..
Synopsis by IMDb
Movie: Layer Cake (2004)
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375912/
IMDB Rating:7.3/10 (166,000 votes)
RottenTomatoes:https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/layer_cake
RT Rating: Critics: 80% (142 votes); Audience: 85% (148,000 votes)
Video: 1920x800 10 bit AV1
Duration:01:45:23
Size: 2478MB
Settings:Quality Target 97, min_q 10, max_q 30, cpu-used 4
VMAF mean 96, 25% low 94.9
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Audio: Opus stereo
Languages:English, French, Director's Commentary
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French, Portugese, Cantonese,
Korean, Thai
Settings:48000hz 128kbps, 80kbps (Commentary)
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Encoded by:ranma
Group: AV1D
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Encoder:aomenc
Version:2.0.1-1161
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Tools: Av1an
MKVToolNix
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The Movie:
A successful cocaine dealer Mr. XXXX (Daniel Craig) gets two tough
assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement.
(It's kind of hard to avoid spoilers that make the movie so fun with
any of the longer descriptions) :(
Stars: Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham, George Harris, Michael Gambon
Writer: JJ Connolly
Director: Matthew Vaughn
About:
AV1 and Opus are modern open, royalty free formats providing
amazing quality at lower bitrates than h.264/265 and AAC.
For improving AV1 playback use the mpv video player and
follow this guide:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/gjq2mv/drastically_improving_av1_playback/
Other options to play it: VLC, MPC-BE 1.5.5+, mpv; you can try
using a mid to high end Android from 2015 or beyond. And even
Chrome can play it if you rename the .mkv to .webm!
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Lastly: As an attempt to spread and hopefully popularize AV1,
here's my encode command for this encode:
python av1an.py -i input.mkv -v " --cpu-used=4 --end-usage=q --cq-level=20 --threads=8 --bit-depth=10 --lag-in-frames=32 --kf-max-dist=480 " -a " -an " -w 6 -p 2 -s input.csv -log input --vmaf --vmaf_path "vmaf_v0.6.1.pkl" --min_q 11 --max_q 30 --n_threads 16 --target_quality 97 --split_method aom_keyframes -o output
![Layer Cake (2004) Multi 1080p BluRay AV1 Opus [AV1D]](https://f.t0r.space/covers/0375912.webp)
