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Swarm, Nature's Incredible Invasions s01e01 When Worlds Collide (4th January 2009) [PDTV (XviD)]

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Swarm: Nature's Incredible Invasions

1/2 - When Worlds Collide

Sunday 4 January 2009
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC One


The first programme in a two-part documentary reveals the awe-inspiring world of animal swarms. We discover
what happens when superswarms invade our lives and, using the latest camera techniques, we go to the heart
of the swarm, to reveal how the creatures view our world.

Real-life footage from camcorders and mobile phones captures the amazing impact they can have on our lives.
Killers bees mount an attack on an international football match in Costa Rica, while in the US the Illinois River
literally boils with leaping silver carp, an alien species that has hijacked the river smashing into boats and
injuring people.

In South Australia a sea of mice raid farms as millions consume and destroy on a scale that defies belief.
The largest swarm on Earth erupts from Lake Victoria, trillions of flies blanket villages, but the locals have
learnt to turn this swarm into a highly nutritious fly-burger. In Rome, cameras fly alongside ten million starlings,
the largest swarm in Europe. Their mesmeric waves stop many residents in their tracks, but as they roost
they smother the city in tons of excrement.

One man has learnt to control the ultimate swarm, he has become their 'queen bee' with startling results,
learning to control what most people fear, and to understand one of the most incredible forces of nature.



Filesize....... : 499.41 MB (511,392 KB) (523,665,408 bytes)
Runtime...... : 0:59:01.56 (88,539 frames)
Video Codec : XviD 1.2.0
Video Bitrate : 1045 kb/s
frame size... : 608x336 (1.81:1)
Audio Codec : MP3 (LAME 3.98.2)
Audio Bitrate : 128 kb/s CBR
Sample Rate : 48 kHz, joint stereo


Swarms - hundreds of small blobs moving randomly round the screen - do not compress very well with existing
video codecs. If you freeze frame, you'll see some frames pixellate quite a bit - they appear as larger squares.
The same is true of the broadcast PDTV MPEG-2 source.

I've used a video bit rate that offers the best picture for a reasonable file size. The pixellation isn't really visible
on a standard TV at 25fps, but if you're fussy, I'd recommend a HDTV torrent for this programme.

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