Okay, I've identified the shortfall as my encoder skipping the Criterion intro screen. Still don't understand the aspect problem. I'm going to have to try re-encoding it and see what settings might've been wrong before. That's going to take time though. Each encode takes a few hours. Thank you for ...

Wow, you hate 1fichier so much it's right there in your username!

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Are you using your browser? I never do that with 1fichier links. I use a download manager program called JDownloader (which Dreamscape mentioned above) and routinely get 4-5 Gbps transfer rates. You should try that ...