darkmiasma
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Jysin
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I just went through my IPT invites. Seems that you are my best invite so far, killing it at 7+ ratio!!
Thanks. lol
I find it odd that Homsar (who invited me from FoH) was banned last month. He had been a member for years without issue.
Can anyone recommend any good torrent sites to get VSTi plugins for pro-tools? Having a hard time finding any...Or if this is not viable tell me, so I can suck it up and just purchase it
Usenet has lots of things called VSTi (whatever that is.)Search Nzbs - usenet-crawler - A dark place to download nzbsCan anyone recommend any good torrent sites to get VSTi plugins for pro-tools? Having a hard time finding any...Or if this is not viable tell me, so I can suck it up and just purchase it
If you want to try that, there are free accounts like thisOrder TweakNews Product
If you want to stick with torrents, this place opens every so often or you can pay to get in if you're in a rush.
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A good general tracker like IPT has a decent selection too, although not as good as the other 2. I see invites here.
BoldW
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Spork
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Other than BTN (which I really want an invite for) are there any other trackers that used a time based system instead of ratio?
I'm finding it harder and harder to maintain ratio on the sites I use. I used to have over 1TB in credits on TVTorrents and now i'm at 191G and dropping. Even if I hop on a torrent the second it's released I still can't even hit a 1.0 ratio. Too many people with seed boxes nowadays; more supply than demand. I don't even remember the last time I've seen my upstream come even close to maxed out.
I'm finding it harder and harder to maintain ratio on the sites I use. I used to have over 1TB in credits on TVTorrents and now i'm at 191G and dropping. Even if I hop on a torrent the second it's released I still can't even hit a 1.0 ratio. Too many people with seed boxes nowadays; more supply than demand. I don't even remember the last time I've seen my upstream come even close to maxed out.
Joeboo
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I'm still hosting Game of Thrones complete season 3 in 720p, and have been since the day the series ended in June, and it has been a ratio goldmine. 13.47GB download, 423.91GB uploaded for a 31:1 ratio on a hugeass file. That single collection there has pretty much covered the ratio for everything else I've grabbed in the last 4 months that I couldn't get shared for crap.
Breaking Bad season 5 is building to overtake that though. It's only been done for about 3 weeks, but the 18.82 GB download has uploaded 192 GB so far for a more than 10:1 ratio.
Find a mega-popular TV series, start hosting the entire season when it ends ASAP. It'll take care of all your upload/ratio needs for a long time. I plan on doing the same when the current season of Boardwalk Empire ends.
Breaking Bad season 5 is building to overtake that though. It's only been done for about 3 weeks, but the 18.82 GB download has uploaded 192 GB so far for a more than 10:1 ratio.
Find a mega-popular TV series, start hosting the entire season when it ends ASAP. It'll take care of all your upload/ratio needs for a long time. I plan on doing the same when the current season of Boardwalk Empire ends.
Void
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Who wants to wait while low-quality porn buffers/streams, repeatedly in most cases since no one actually watches porn from start to finish?
Aside from that, I can't remember the last time I actually watched something from an actual porn film. Ok, I take it back, I've watched several of those "This is not The Avengers" type porn parodies. But other than those, your typical porn DVD just doesn't do it for me, even though they apparently still sell like crazy. I'd rather watch a Met-Art or "Czech Girls Taking it Up the Butt" type site than the modern day equivalent of Debbie Does Dallas (although I realize that both of those very well might have DVD sales too, but you get the point).
I've tried using the streaming sites, but it just isn't anywhere the same as having a nice 720p/1080p copy that I can instantly click around to any part I want, or stop and start another one instantly. And with how cheap storage is nowadays, why not?
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Siliconemelons
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I am not really hard core into torrents etc, but IPtorrents does this in a sense- you get bonus points for your time seeding regardless of upload data- you then use those points to "buy" XGB of upload credit- that and working the freelleech torrents can make it fairly easy to keep a decent ratio- I even have a decent ratio- although I have not been active in a while.
Void
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Since getting a seedbox, I have to FTP download all of my files from the box to my computer. Since it is coming from the Netherlands, I use multi-part downloading to speed it up. This splits the file into 8 parts, and then re-forms it when all the parts are complete. For whatever reason, on occasion the file is corrupted and doesn't play properly even though it says it is fine. This gets to be a problem when I download a movie I want as part of my collection, but don't intend to watch anytime soon. For example, I've seen Man of Steel already, but wanted the 1080p DTS-HD version to have on hand when I don't want to pull out my bluray. That's a 16GB file that I will want to clear off of my seedbox fairly soon, but I don't want the copy I downloaded via FTP to stop playing halfway through, causing me to have to torrent it and FTP it all over again.
What I need is some kind of "video file integrity checker." The only thing I found via Google was a .bat file someone wrote to use in conjunction with ffdshow, but that takes FOREVER. A 4GB movie took like half an hour. I could have just downloaded it again in that time. Playing the video and skipping around on the search bar doesn't always seem to catch it either unless you specifically watch it over the problem area, and for movies I haven't seen already that kind of sucks because I don't want to see what happens by accident when clicking around.
Anyone have any ideas? Realistically my solution is a 100% accurate FTP download, but I don't know how I can be assured that's going to happen without some way to check it anyway. There are only a couple that do multi-part downloads to begin with, although I've had a corrupted file even with a single-part download once too (which takes a lot longer obviously). Not sure if that is a different problem or the same, but for now I'm assuming the same. The official trial version of the one I'm using (CuteFTP) causes the exact same issues, so I'm not enthusiastic about registering it legitimately and having it do the same thing. Therefore, I'm hoping to find some kind of integrity checker to ensure I have good copies. I've actually started seeking out ones in rar files because I can just re-download a particular rar, and if it unzips completely I know it is good. But they aren't all available that way.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
What I need is some kind of "video file integrity checker." The only thing I found via Google was a .bat file someone wrote to use in conjunction with ffdshow, but that takes FOREVER. A 4GB movie took like half an hour. I could have just downloaded it again in that time. Playing the video and skipping around on the search bar doesn't always seem to catch it either unless you specifically watch it over the problem area, and for movies I haven't seen already that kind of sucks because I don't want to see what happens by accident when clicking around.
Anyone have any ideas? Realistically my solution is a 100% accurate FTP download, but I don't know how I can be assured that's going to happen without some way to check it anyway. There are only a couple that do multi-part downloads to begin with, although I've had a corrupted file even with a single-part download once too (which takes a lot longer obviously). Not sure if that is a different problem or the same, but for now I'm assuming the same. The official trial version of the one I'm using (CuteFTP) causes the exact same issues, so I'm not enthusiastic about registering it legitimately and having it do the same thing. Therefore, I'm hoping to find some kind of integrity checker to ensure I have good copies. I've actually started seeking out ones in rar files because I can just re-download a particular rar, and if it unzips completely I know it is good. But they aren't all available that way.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
BoldW
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I have had a corrupted video file once (or at least only once that VLC/Plex couldn't play it. When DLing RARed files, I've had corrupted RARs a few times. Maybe try to download packed media instead of unpacked? That way if you receive a corruption error on unpacking, you only need to re-FTP one smaller RAR. It's better to DL for 5 minutes than 1 hour.
There are some apps that check integrity of certain encodings, like divx or asf and whatnot, but I imagine that the time it takes to check/repair a file may be almost as bad as redownloading.
There are some apps that check integrity of certain encodings, like divx or asf and whatnot, but I imagine that the time it takes to check/repair a file may be almost as bad as redownloading.
Void
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Yeah, I mentioned the rar files, but they aren't always available in that format, particularly if I'm trying to get a movie to keep, like 1080p DTS-HD for example. Or freeleech, etc.
99% of what I get is mkv format, so if I could find one specifically for that format it would be good enough. If it could check an entire directory I'd let that shit go overnight, while I'm at work, etc. just to ensure I have good copies. But I can't find anything besides the ffdshow method I mentioned, which doesn't seem like the most efficient way of doing it.
EDIT: Well shit, now that I searched specifically for mkv, perhaps this will solve my problems:Using Matroska Diag to verify integrity of a mkv file - tehPARADOX
I'll have to wait until I get home to try it though.
99% of what I get is mkv format, so if I could find one specifically for that format it would be good enough. If it could check an entire directory I'd let that shit go overnight, while I'm at work, etc. just to ensure I have good copies. But I can't find anything besides the ffdshow method I mentioned, which doesn't seem like the most efficient way of doing it.
EDIT: Well shit, now that I searched specifically for mkv, perhaps this will solve my problems:Using Matroska Diag to verify integrity of a mkv file - tehPARADOX
I'll have to wait until I get home to try it though.
Joeboo
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That's really odd, when I've had corrupted video files from a download, it's so corrupted that the file won't even start playing, I've never had one that was corrupted to where it jacked up in the middle of playing. I generally just multi-part download, extract the .rars, and then load it up to make sure the first few seconds play.