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HeneryHawk, do piracy w Publishing New Torrents

You’re going from a source of an encoded x264 and reencoding (the already encoded file) as x265?? What are the results like?

Most people encode from a high quality source like a remux, rather than an encode

heartlessevil,

Yeah, a lot of private travelers will not accept doubly-lossy encoded files as a rule. So you can’t just go from 264 to 265. You need the original lossless file.

To OP, yeah, you want a seed box. Both to pin the file up and host it for a while, and to preserve your anonymity (the original seeder is under particular scrutiny.)

rah,

a lot of private travelers

What’s a “private traveler” out of interest?

HeneryHawk,

It’s a typo, supposed to say “private tracker”

heartlessevil,

Auto correct typo of private tracker. Sorry.

rah,

Ah I see, thanks for clarifying.

pastermil,

Looks good to me… I’d be happy to take some feedback tho

HeneryHawk,

It will depend a lot on hardware and/or software but I’d bet users would see some artefacting, ghosting, and general noise when they play your x265 file

As another comment pointed out, an encode of an encode is banned on a lot of trackers… Or at least an encode of an already pretty lossy encode (x264) won’t be allowed

Does the filesize change much?

pastermil,

I was able to shrink down the whole thing from about 120GB to 90GB

ApatheticAlligator, do piracy w How can I find my schools Adobe Premiere/Photoshop Elements 2020 key?

why risk stealing from your school when cracking exists?

Sharpiemarker,

Exactly. OP, whatever you’re thinking of doing is an incredibly bad idea and very illegal.

hoping, do piracy w 5th Edition D&D books?

you can try Da PDF Share Thread

BigBananaDealer, do gaming w Beautiful games?
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

skyrim, i have loads of pictures just of the sky in that game

also hogwarts legacy has some very beautiful locales throughout the game, and hogwarts itself is wonderfully done

lustyargonian,

I played Skyrim AE right after Horizon Forbidden West and I kept finding the simplicity and visual clarity of the game to be so damn beautiful. The game has the right amount of clutter, right amount of volumetric fogs and right amount of texture detail to be easy on eyes and believable as a consistent and functioning world.

BigBananaDealer,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

i like the ants marching on some of the logs, easy to see in riverwood by the area where gerdur talks to you after the intro

perishthethought, do gaming w Beautiful games?
@perishthethought@lemm.ee avatar

This might be weird, but Just Cause 3. When I was playing it a lot, I would just stop and look around at sunset and marvel at the view.

stephfinitely, do piracy w What's the history behind cam rips of movies and where have they typically came from?
@stephfinitely@artemis.camp avatar

This actually sounds like a great topic for a documentary

HeckingShepherd,

I’d watch a two hour YouTube video on that

pipes,
@pipes@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’d even get the Xvid DVDrip of it, but never the cam rip they are vile 😂

princessnorah, do piracy w What's the history behind cam rips of movies and where have they typically came from?
@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone in this thread mention Telecines at all. It’s a machine that captures the video and audio from the film print directly to digital. A lot of good Cam rips were filmed from the projection booth, and could conceivably be done by a projectionist surreptitiously. Telecines though, required a large piece of equipment and time with a print outside of hours. Likely you’d need to be a manager or owner to get away with it, or have their blessing.

I remember the excitement of finding a Telecine for a movie in theatres rather than a Cam. It felt like striking gold. I bet the people releasing those in scene groups would be treated like gods back then.

princessnorah,
@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Also, Telesyncs, which would be labelled TS, is when you have that high quality cam recording and sync it to a direct recording of the audio. The audio often came from the FM microbroadcast that are designed for hearing-aid users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:35mm_film_audio_macro.jpg Dolby Digital is an image of a digital signal (basically a QR code) that is between the cog-wheel holes on one side. Good Telecine machines are able to record the full surround track from this. That used to be the absolute best you could get while something was still in theatres. Often better than award copies, they had no stupid watermarks.

WarmSoda, do piracy w What's the history behind cam rips of movies and where have they typically came from?

Well you see, when a pirate and a camcorder love each other very much, they go to a movie theater…

Rocketpoweredgorilla,
@Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca avatar

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Father_Redbeard, do gaming w Beautiful games?
@Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml avatar
  • Death’s Door just a stunning game in regards to art style and music/sound design. Really creative boss battles too that never felt stale. Can be challenging.
  • Omno very chill game with a really cool vibe and music. No combat to speak of. Short though.
  • Pseudoregalia PS1-style graphics but oddly gorgeous. It’s a metroidvania of sorts with some of the best movement mechanics in recent memory. Highly recommend a look at least.
  • A Short Hike really cute game that is all about exploration. As the title suggests, not a very long game. On the Switch version there was a toggle to turn off a graphics filter that is reminiscent of the 3DS. I personally liked it, but I have not checked the Steam version for the same option.
  • Sea Of Stars releases on 29 Aug, but there is a demo available. Between the gorgeous 16bit inspired graphics, the lighting effects, and the incredible soundtrack this would be an instant buy for me if it weren’t hitting Game Pass on day one! I may still plunk down on a physical copy. Leaning towards Switch, assuming it plays as well there as other platforms.

These are maybe not what some would consider beautiful, but I love the variation in art styles and how they can be beautiful while either being simplistic or retro-inspired. All but Sea Of Stars were very cheap during the Steam Summer sale or in a Fanatical bundle that may or may not still be available right now.

KrimsonBun, do piracy w (LINUX USER)What VPNs would you lovely people recommend?
@KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml avatar

Mullvad!

Im1Random,

What about the removal of port forwarding?

Captain_Red, do piracy w (LINUX USER)What VPNs would you lovely people recommend?

Mullvad. The others have horrible apps on Linux.

lud,

Mullvad doesn’t support port forwarding anymore. I use airvpn and you can just use the native WireGuard (or OpenVPN if you’r crazy) apps on different platforms if you want.

ISOmorph, do piracy w (LINUX USER)What VPNs would you lovely people recommend?

The same 3 VPNs get recommended each time this question is asked:

  • Mullvad
  • Proton
  • IVPN
Carter,

So two that don’t offer port forwarding and one that only does on Windows? Wow what a great recommendation…

kostel_thecreed,

Only Proton should be recommended for torrenting since it has port-forwarding. I don’t know why people love suggesting these even without port-forwarding.

SenorBolsa, do gaming w Steam told me Saint's Row had dropped on the platform!
@SenorBolsa@beehaw.org avatar

It’s a pretty decent game, I still don’t understand why everyone was so down on it. I had a lot of fun playing it, there was decent variety, the gunplay was good, and the silly storylines were entertaining.

GammaGames,

Anything that doesn’t revolutionize a genre is seen as inferior nowadays :/

SenorBolsa,
@SenorBolsa@beehaw.org avatar

My buddy even produced a 60second live action ad for them that got axed over the “drama”. People act like all the other games were masterpieces somehow. I’d still also love to see a remaster of the first two games but that’s neither here nor there.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

The frequent complaints I heard (which I double checked just now against Open Critic) were monotony, uninteresting story and characters, and enough bugs to be annoying.

Mugmoor,
@Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Because the series hasn’t done anything new since Saints Row 3. It’s just the same game over and over again, and even that was just a more polished version of Crackdown.

all-knight-party, (edited )
@all-knight-party@kbin.cafe avatar

I'm not sure what you mean. Saints Row 4's large criticism was that it was too different from SR's heritage what with being a super hero game instead of GTA on crack. Past that Gat out of Hell isn't a mainline title and was even further out there, and then Agents of Mayhem wasn't even a Saints game, and I enjoyed the hell out of that game's unique merits.

The SR reboot was the first real Saints Row release since 3, so you could say that it didn't do enough different (which I can't speak for, I didn't play it), but saying the series hasn't done anything new since 3 is not correct. Whether those games were super great or not is a different discussion, but they were doing something different, unless you just didn't specify between something different for the series or something different from all other video games.

HawlSera,

I loved Agents of Mayhem. Best GI Joe game ever released

all-knight-party,
@all-knight-party@kbin.cafe avatar

It had flaws, but I found the three hero swapping mechanic pretty fun, especially due to each one having a class that made them better or worse against certain enemies, and I loved the whole triple jumping thing, combat felt unique and fun.

The rest of the game has a lot of not so awesome bits, but I found it absolutely good enough to warrant an improved sequel. Hopefully they do something with it one day.

HawlSera,

I’ve heard it was because it was a tame, out of touch, white washed version of a series that used to be edgier…

Haven’t played it so I don’t know how true that is.

SenorBolsa, (edited )
@SenorBolsa@beehaw.org avatar

It’s just different, I don’t know as I’ve gotten older the “edginess” of the older titles doesn’t really hit with me anyways so I didn’t miss it at all and I felt it was replaced with a more modern take on the idea. They did some really fun stuff with it, for example there’s a set of missions where you go LARPing all over the map with dart guns in a kind of weird mix of mad max and high fantasy. I didn’t like the characters in the crew at first either but they grow on you I don’t think the gang in the other games was any less corny or goofy these ones are just more modern takes.

I think edginess had it’s time, but it’s old hat now. It still feels every bit a madcap gang adventure a Saints game should be. I wouldn’t spend $60 on it, but for $20 it’s a winner all day if you just want a dumb fun game. There’s plenty to do and plenty of actually new gameplay changing things to discover and unlock. Clearing out gangs feels a bit repetitive, but not much different from something like Far Cry 3/4/5/6

Maybe it’s not your thing, and I think it’s probably fair to level the critique that it’s not what the hardcore fans really wanted, but I don’t think the game fails to deliver a good experience overall especially now that it’s all bugfixed etc. (which it was shortly after launch but still that launch sucked a little)

Kolanaki,
!deleted6508 avatar

I still laugh at the one-liners the PC gives after the boss fights. I fuckin’ loved that about the first one. You’re a silent protagonist, except during these random awkward moments after defeating a boss and then you just deliver the dumbest puns and jokes unexpectedly.

TauriWarrior,

Might have had fun playing it if we didn’t have to try the same mission 5+ times because the vehicle we were meant to steal didn’t spawn in, if when i go to an area to kill the rival gang there its empty. Person i was trying to play with couldn’t get the fast travel points which was a bug as i tried to get it for them by using their computer and couldn’t but on mine i could. Things like that meant we lost interest very quick

k110111, do piracy w How could I start a torrent site and not get caught?

Okay thats a fun question to answer.

Disclaimer: i don’t know much about piracy and stuff in general but studied computer science so sharing this just for funsies DO NOT TAKE THIS ADVICE IF YOU ARE SERIOUS!!!

Okay so here it goes:

Buy crypto then use crypto mixers to annonymize it.

Use a webhosting site that accept said crypto.

Use vpn for everything preferably more than one routing from multiple countries like one from west then one from east.

If you can use a vm specifically for everything related to your site to make sure things are contained.

Make sure to not upload from the same id’s as the one you use to create site. Make a user account if you wanna upload anything.

Read up on how other such websites are created to figure out if you are missing something.

ellipse,
@ellipse@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

well good thing you said to not take this advice because it’s not really good.

  1. Don’t use crypto mixers, a lot of them are scams and their usefullness is up to debate -> instead use monero, the actual private crypto that is used throughout darknet.
  2. Don’t use VPNs to be anonymous. VPN are useful for a few things: torrenting, browsing on a public wifi and bypassing georestrictions. they are not useful if you want to be anonymous! To be anonymous, use TOR (or i2p) 3.the VM advice is good. alternatively you could use TailsOS which is more user friendly.
  3. Don’t. Especially if you need to ask how to do it first.
Conyak, do piracy w How could I start a torrent site and not get caught?

Step 1: Move to Switzerland. Step 2: torrent site

magnor,
@magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh avatar

Probably safer to move to Russia or North Korea.

matey,

I don’t think you and I have the same definition of the word “safer.”

magnor,
@magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh avatar

Safer for the torrent site. For the people running it, eh, who knows.¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯

Rabbit,

Start revolution and overthrow dictator and put myself in as dictator. Build up military and gather nukes under guise of protecting country, but it’s really to protect me from copyright trolls.

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