Is it legal to ask to compare mediainfos about 2 specific files without posting links of any pirated content or mentioning the name of the release?

Anyway, if it’s illegal I might report it if it’s not removed before.

If you’re not posting the links, but only describing the content, you should be OK. That’s just prose, nothing actionable.

The RIAA and other so-called copyright protecting organizations might not like it, but you won’t be giving access, only description.

OK, then, here it goes:

FILE 1

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 49 min 44 s
Bit rate : 11.1 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 960 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.000
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.250
Stream size : 3.84 GiB (88%)
Writing library : x264 core 157 r2935 545de2f
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=4 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0×3:0×113 / me=umh / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.25 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8×8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-4 / threads=30 / lookahead_threads=5 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=11050 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:0.75
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 49 min 44 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 509 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : C L R Ls Rs LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF)
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 537 MiB (12%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:00:00:00.000
00:10:06.481 : en:00:10:06.481
00:20:02.993 : en:00:20:02.993
00:30:03.176 : en:00:30:03.176
00:40:13.077 : en:00:40:13.077
00:47:46.530 : en:00:47:46.530

FILE 2

General:

Format: MKV
File Size: 2049.49 MiB
Duration: 46 min 35 s
Bitrate: 6 151 kb/s
Subtitles: English-Arabic

Video:

Format: HEVC
Codec: x265
Bitrate: 5 952 kb/s
Frame Rate: 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Resolution: 1920×960
Encoding settings: wpp / ctu=64 / min-cu-size=8 / max-tu-size=32 / tu-intra-depth=3 / tu-inter-depth=3 / me=3 / subme=4 / merange=57 / rect / amp / max-merge=4 / temporal-mvp / no-early-skip / rdpenalty=0 / no-tskip / no-tskip-fast / strong-intra-smoothing / no-lossless / no-cu-lossless / no-constrained-intra / no-fast-intra / no-open-gop / no-temporal-layers / interlace=0 / keyint=250 / min-keyint=23 / scenecut=0 / rc-lookahead=40 / lookahead-slices=0 / bframes=4 / bframe-bias=0 / b-adapt=2 / ref=3 / limit-refs=1 / limit-modes / weightp / weightb / aq-mode=1 / qg-size=32 / aq-strength=1.00 / cbqpoffs=0 / crqpoffs=0 / rd=6 / psy-rd=2.00 / rdoq-level=2 / psy-rdoq=1.00 / signhide / deblock / sao / no-sao-non-deblock / b-pyramid / cutree / no-intra-refresh / rc=2 / pass / bitrate=6000 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ipratio=1.40 / pbratio=1.30
Color range: Limited
Color primaries: BT.2020
Transfer characteristics: SMPTE ST 2084
Matrix coefficients: BT.2020 non-constant

Audio #1:

Format: AC-3
Bitrate: 384 kb/s
Channels: 6 channels

I’m an elitist, so, what is the best file in terms of video, audio, subtitles and overall?

Of course it is legal.

I don’t keep up on AV formats enough to comment on the relative merits any better than you could find by doing web searches.

@Zaku: More or less, I want to know which video is best to be watched.

It’s the same content?

Looks to me from the data like FILE 1 is better in audio and probably better in video too.

Codec: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
vs.
Codec: x265

Last year I ripped a ton of DVDs to disk, and researched and tested a little beforehand. I found that x265 was the newer, better codec IF everything else is equal.

But everything else is not equal. My hardware does not include x265 encoding/decoding. The hardware did include MP4. x265 rips were slower. They were not better on screen.

So I went with MP4. I don’t remember more details because it wasn’t a super-careful science experiment.

Note these were DVDs, therefore standard definition. I have never worked with HD or 4K.