Breaking Bad
When chemistry teacher Walter White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given only two years to live, he decides he has nothing to lose. He lives with his teenage son, who has cerebral palsy, and his wife, in New Mexico. Determined to ensure that his family will have a secure future, Walt embarks on a career of drugs and crime. He proves to be remarkably proficient in this new world as he begins manufacturing and selling methamphetamine with one of his former students. The series tracks the impacts of a fatal diagnosis on a regular, hard working man, and explores how a fatal diagnosis affects his morality and transforms him into a major player of the drug trade.
This program is specifically designed to be viewed by adults and therefore may be unsuitable for children under the age of 17. It contains one or more of the following: graphic violence, explicit sexual content, or crude indecent language.
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IMDB: tt0903747
Runtime: ~48 minutes per episode, 62 episodes
Size: 54.6 GiB
Video (AV1):
1920x1080 - 10-bit SDR - Average bitrates:
S01 - 3157 kbps | S03 - 1497 kbps | S05 - 1605 kbps
Audio (E-AC3):
English 5.1 - 640 kbps
Subtitles (31x SRT):
English, English SDH, Spanish, European Spanish, French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Greek, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese.
In some episodes the first subtitle track is English Forced, which is enabled by default.
AV1 Compatibility: Windows/Android: VLC or MPV players - TVs: Native on most smart TVs from 2020 or newer.
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About video quality: For this encode, Netflix used the most recent remaster, which means it has better-looking colors and sharper detail than 1080p Bluray throughout all 5 seasons. The video also has very little noise compared to Bluray, in this case it's likely due to AV1 encoding. Frankly, these AV1 encodes from Netflix still struggle to maintain consistent quality in challenging scenes, but at least the artifacts don't include banding; with current av1 encoders it's challenging to get it right on some types of scenes without extensive tweaking by hand. Depending on your preference, and your tolerance for the occasional artefacts in grainy scenes, you might even prefer this to the 1080p Blu-ray Remux, due to Netflix using a more modern master of Breaking Bad.
Screenshot comparison: Blu-ray Remux vs AV1 WEB-DL
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- Breaking Bad S01-S05 1080p NF WEB-DL AV1 EAC3
| Name | Size | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.6 GB | 12/08/23 | 1939 | 702 | ||
| 17.5 GB | 08/31/23 | 1916 | 1414 | ||
| 16.9 GB | 03/21/24 | 1829 | 1396 | ||
| 2.7 GB | 02/22/24 | 1814 | 646 | ||
| 1.6 GB | 12/22/23 | 1808 | 205 | ||
| 5.9 GB | 03/15/25 | 1793 | 97 | ||
| 7.5 GB | 12/06/25 | 1764 | 430 | ||
| 1.4 GB | 11/10/23 | 1699 | 800 | ||
| 2.1 GB | 02/16/24 | 1643 | 489 | ||
| 865 MB | 07/16/26 | 1577 | 54 | ||
| 12.6 GB | 06/15/23 | 1532 | 844 | ||
| 863 MB | 07/11/26 | 1516 | 158 | ||
| 5.8 GB | 07/04/24 | 1405 | 86 | ||
| 2.5 GB | 11/23/22 | 1359 | 486 | ||
| 10.1 GB | 12/21/25 | 1349 | 300 |