Game:

Half-Life 2 (2004)

Duration: 1:42:19

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I did not make Half-Life 2 Done Quick. It was created by the HL2DQ Team. More information can be found here: http://wiki.sourceruns.org/wiki/Half-Life_2_Done_Quick

This is the original Insane Quality version of Half-Life 2 Done Quick, except I upscaled the video from 480p to 1080p. This should help to preserve the bitrate of the original Insane Quality version. Otherwise, YouTube reduces the bitrate significantly for 480p videos. This should be the best streaming version of the run that has been put onto YouTube.

If you haven't watched this run before, it was definitely a huge milestone in the speedrunning community for many years and has inspired many people, like myself, to get into speedrunning. If this speedrun wasn't made, I would have never made Portal Done Pro. So, I hope you enjoy this relic of the past! :-)

REUPLOAD DETAILS: So, my first attempt at upscaling this wasn't very successful. It was still quite pixelated on YouTube, even though it wasn't like that on the video file. So, 20 hours of encoding later, I upscaled it again, instead using VirtuaDub and very high settings. Also, instead of AVC encoding in AviDemux, it is straight H264 and as an AVI. Also, the bitrate has increased from ~10 Mbps to ~15 Mbps. I'm thinking that it should look significantly better on YouTube now. Sorry for the reupload!

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