Duration: 4:32

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A PC Demo by the Psychic Monks, made in 1996.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3627

Creditos:
necros - main synch coding, voxel landscape,
comet effect, recursive texture effect,
env mapper, font routines, crossfader,
radial fire, etc
- music :)
solstice - vector engine basics, 'pillars' effect,
'babylon' mesh, moral support, poetry
likuid krystal - that weird swirly thing, clock timer source
pelusa - music replay routines, voxel tunnel, radix
sort ;)
ior - chaos attractor, travel agent, silly web
designer AHEM
iv/carcass - PM logo
aahz/carcass - vector morphing symbol objects and backgif

Programs used:
DOSBox
OpenMPT
MEncoder
mkvmerge

Original file information:
MKV, 1,300,161,475 bytes
Audio: PCM S32 LE, 192Khz, 2 front 2 rear channels
Video: H264, 5120x3200, 70fps

Commandline:
mencoder babylon_001.avi -ovc x264 -x264encopts subq=9:trellis=2:partitions=all:8x8dct:me=esa:frameref=16:bframes=4:b_pyramid=normal:weight_b:threads=7 -nosound -sws 4 -vf scale=5120:3200 -o babylon.avi

Encoding trivia:
Video stream: 14190.354 kbit/s (1773794 B/s) size: 465401934 bytes 262.377 secs 18390 frames
x264 [info]: frame I:76 Avg QP: 8.20 size:100119
x264 [info]: frame P:10394 Avg QP:10.70 size: 35733
x264 [info]: frame B:7919 Avg QP:16.99 size: 10909
x264 [info]: consecutive B-frames: 38.9% 17.1% 3.4% 4.4% 36.1%
x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 99.5% 0.4% 0.0%
x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 14.7% 0.4% 0.4% P16..4: 13.7% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% skip:70.3%
x264 [info]: mb B I16..4: 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% B16..8: 9.5% 0.3% 0.0% direct: 0.3% skip:89.5% L0:58.0% L1:40.9% BI: 1.1%
x264 [info]: 8x8 transform intra:2.5% inter:99.5%
x264 [info]: coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 1.2% 7.0% 0.0% inter: 0.7% 1.9% 0.0%
x264 [info]: i16 v,h,dc,p: 67% 31% 2% 0%
x264 [info]: i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 2% 4% 63% 13% 0% 0% 0% 6% 12%
x264 [info]: i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 23% 3% 11% 0% 0% 0% 0% 49% 14%
x264 [info]: i8c dc,h,v,p: 54% 27% 19% 0%
x264 [info]: Weighted P-Frames: Y:6.9% UV:5.9%
x264 [info]: ref P L0: 17.9% 2.7% 9.6% 10.2% 7.7% 8.6% 7.3% 5.2% 4.2% 3.7% 4.1% 5.1% 4.4% 3.7% 3.2% 2.4%
x264 [info]: ref B L0: 56.9% 7.7% 5.6% 3.4% 4.3% 3.0% 3.4% 2.7% 2.4% 2.5% 2.1% 2.3% 2.0% 1.0% 0.7%
x264 [info]: ref B L1: 83.5% 16.5%
x264 [info]: kb/s:14190.35

Other notes:
Looks like there was a little audio left over after the demo should have ended! Also, it turns out the rear channels contain no data! Oops.