toxictenement @ toxictenement @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Lots of crossover between 4chan and the general piracy community. First place I actually heard about soulseek was on the 4chan music board. I don't really go there anymore. So yeah, its 4channers thinking they're in good company.

Does the server ping keep disappearing for you too?

Oh, and if you start out with the unpacked files, but don't have a srr file to re-scene them, you can probably find one by searching the release name on srrdb.com. Mileage may vary though.

.sfv is a text file that lists the crc32's (hash) of the scene release rar files to verify if they are broken/modified in any way. They can sometimes have ascii art in them, or vague info on what topsite the release last went through, but thats rather rare these days. .srr files are created by a program called PyReScene which records exactly how a scene release is rar'd, and with what winrar version to re-create the original release format (rar'd) at a later date. Super useful program for reseeding and cross seeding stuff.

felt like banging my head against a brick wall explaining to that sub multiple times a week that you have to create firewall rules and hosts file entries to stop those popups.

From my understanding, peer trackers don't really have a way of differentiating what torrents they are added to.

Yeah, pretty much. Just as long as it doesn't have the previous trackers tracker url, and ideally have it generate a different infohash.

Honorable mention to Rats on the Boat, a p2p torrent search engine which will let you upload whatever torrent you wish, which then propagates to other peers.

They did take down the offending torrent, though.

Awesome, how're you doing that?

Personally I like this one. Has 24 hours freeleech on all new torrents, and a reseed request system open to everyone on the site (2nd rank & above maybe, can't remember for sure) makes it pretty easy to build ratio by cross-seeding if you can find whats missing (PyReScene with srrdb.com helps out a lot here) Smaller community size makes it a bit easier to get upload on a residential connection. Its mostly a scene focused tracker, so expect release rar's with most torrents. Lots of gems on there though.

Share em on soulseek!

usually just upload it to virus total

I may be wrong, and I'll have to check later tonight to be sure, but I think rarbg may have had a custom encoder for x265, which includes the ion265 rips. You can check it yourself though by checking the mediainfo, which a lot of the time will reveal what commands (x264/x265 commands, not ffmpeg) were used for the encode, along with the encoder name/version. There several programs that will let you check mediainfo, but the easiest to link is this one, just open your video file with it and display as text.

Start with doing simple disc rips, like cd's(Exact Audio Copy), dvds(MakeMKV, DVD decryptor, eac3to), blurays(MakeMKV, eac3to).

Figure out how to encode and compress video so that it still looks good, you can still find some old scene rule nfo's to have a better idea on what settings to use to encode. I use a gui called qvs to do encodes, theres also another one called staxrip, you can also learn how to just use command line arguments and just use x264 or x265 from the command line.

If you're not just wanting to just make remuxes with makeMKV, you're probably going to want to use mkvtoolnix to put everything back together as a video file.

You can use SubtitleEdit to convert PGS or VOB subs into the plaintext format SubRip(SRT) which has more compatibility with media servers like jellyfin.

Consider trying to find some obscure titles which may only have dead torrents, no torrents, or only low quality ones (old ~700mb VCD rips) to track down a physical copy to make a new torrent from.

Pick out some dead torrents to camp indefinitely. A seeder may one day return. Also, if you're on a private tracker, a lot of the time you can download the same torrent that also exists as a dead public torrent, and bring the public one back to life. This can be a bit tricky sometimes.

If you have a beefy computer, you could consider making encodes in the new AV1 codec, which is really good at preserving quality but is rather intensive to encode in.

If you join a private tracker, a lot of the time their forums will have some educational resources on making rips yourself.

Actually cracking new drms requires skill, and the skills you need are called reverse engineering. You're going to have to learn the ins and outs of assembly language, specifically decompiled binary represented as assembly language. Theres a site which has simple tutorial programs called crackme's for dipping your toes into this sort of thing. Theres not going to be any public tutorials on how to crack xyz drm because if those existed, the drm would just be patched. Speaking of that, if you're doing software cracks you'll need to learn how to obfuscate your crack to keep the origin company from figuring out how you did it, or else it will just get patched before you do your next one. That doesn't really apply to audiovisual drm since that is all about extracting a stream, and is a bit more straightforward.

I may update this post if anything else comes to mind, good luck to you!

Edit 1: Make your own ascii art NFO's with PabloDraw

Found it

Why eac3to and not something like MakeMKV? Yes, MakeMKV is really easy to use because it's basically a one-click program. However, it does have its shortcomings when it comes to detecting and correcting authoring errors on Bluray discs.

Take that for what you will I guess. They didn't elaborate at all.

If you're interested in using a command line tool to demux, you can get it here, at the original thread on doom9.

eac3to will let you extract the mt2s files into their individual parts (video, audio, subtitles). You can then use mkvtoolnix to remux them into an MKV. MakeMKV works fine imo, but I read some vague waffling on a private tracker forum that it messes something up that eac3to doesn't.

So far I've only run into this with public torrents. Most of the time all my private torrents see little to no traffic. Its probably not the best idea to try and seed everything on the front page of a tracker, but older torrents which would have to be searched for are probably cool to just seed 24/7 without them competing over each other.

Might be worth it to give dvd flick a shot. You can play tetris while its authoring.

You make a good point, but I don't think I've ever seen a v2 torrent in my life.