Or maybe a more general question: at this point, are there any known bad sites for this?

Video Collector said:

Olev said:

Yes, TPB is definitely broken, mkvextract fails on it too.

Yup. I downloaded from TPB also, and the MKV fails at 24%

Now DL'ing from the 'Spleen.

Wow... it's YOU! I use your site all the time. It's been very helpful with my VHS project(s). Excellent work!

I don't know what any of you are talking about with the TPB torrent failing.  It contains the MKV, along with the Threepio Project folder, minus the par2 files, pl files, and html file, BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T ALLOWED.  I did NOTHING to alter the MKV and it is fully intact, with all audio and subs.

I haven't received one bad comment on it yet, and it checks out fine for me.

It's a possibility in the future.  Right now we have no Japanese source files to work with.  I'm just happy we have the dub...

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

I don't know what any of you are talking about with the TPB torrent failing.  It contains the MKV, along with the Threepio Project folder, minus the par2 files, pl files, and html file, BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T ALLOWED.  I did NOTHING to alter the MKV and it is fully intact, with all audio and subs.

Well you weren't supposed to extract the MKV yourself and then upload the MKV. You need to upload the rars and pars just like it was given to you by Harmy. And why? Because now we are screwed. If you had uploaded the rars and there was some corrupt files we could repair those, but as it stands we can't repair what you decided to upload.

Could you please start a new torrent but this time upload the rars and pars?

Jan said:

Ok, I just extracted my rar archive which is definitely ok, and then verified the torrent at TPB. I'm really sorry, but I'm afraid it's indeed faulty. The first 3.83GB (24.3%) of the main movie seem to be ok, but from then on every single byte differs.

As a side note concerning the readme: Simply change the file type to .nfo if the tracker does not allow text files.

EDIT: When I advised Harmy to create par2 recovery files, my primary intend actually was that uploaders could verify and repair the files BEFORE creating mirrors or torrents.

LOL, wish I had known that earlier; glad that my files turned out OK all the same.

vbangle said:

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

I don't know what any of you are talking about with the TPB torrent failing.  It contains the MKV, along with the Threepio Project folder, minus the par2 files, pl files, and html file, BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T ALLOWED.  I did NOTHING to alter the MKV and it is fully intact, with all audio and subs.

Well you weren't supposed to extract the MKV yourself and then upload the MKV. You need to upload the rars and pars just like it was given to you by Harmy. And why? Because now we are screwed. If you had uploaded the rars and there was some corrupt files we could repair those, but as it stands we can't repair what you decided to upload.

Could you please start a new torrent but this time upload the rars and pars?

Harmy never specified doing so, and having to seed RARs is a PITA. Some trackers, such as the spleen, do not allow archives (other than disc images). Going forward, we'll know that it's a good idea to use PAR2 files whenever we have them though. I'm sorry you guys got burned but the dude wasn't out to screw anybody over...

Okay everybody,

I have taken down the torrent at 1337x and TPB.  I don't know where it happened, but I can confirm the MKV glitches around the 34 minute mark, and causes MPC to lock up and crash.  I guess that's what I get for just skimming before uploading it.  There's no way to tell when or where the fault occurred, so I'll be going after it on MySpleen and hopefully I'll have a better copy.  Between JDownloader and all the damn CAPTCHA's, WinRAR, and the act of downloading itself, I don't know where it happened, but it did.

My apologies, everyone.  "Hey, Your Worship, I'm just tryin' to help!"

*EDIT*

I have joined the swarm at MySpleen and I will seed my pants off.  I have incredible speed and will share as long as I am able.

eros said:

Downloaded torrent file from Myspleen, Bit Tornado reports 'Bad Encoded Data'

I honestly have no idea. It seems to be working fine in general; there are now some 40 leechers in the swarm, including some heavyweight uploaders (with 2x my upload speed, an' tha's sayin' a lot). May be a good idea to make sure your client is supported or something. Not trying to be patronizing; just helpful...

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

Okay everybody,

I have taken down the torrent at 1337x and TPB.  I don't know where it happened, but I can confirm the MKV glitches around the 34 minute mark, and causes MPC to lock up and crash.  I guess that's what I get for just skimming before uploading it.  There's no way to tell when or where the fault occurred, so I'll be going after it on MySpleen and hopefully I'll have a better copy.  Between JDownloader and all the damn CAPTCHA's, WinRAR, and the act of downloading itself, I don't know where it happened, but it did.

My apologies, everyone.  "Hey, Your Worship, I'm just tryin' to help!"

*EDIT*

I have joined the swarm at MySpleen and I will seed my pants off.  I have incredible speed and will share as long as I am able.

Why I should stick my neck out for YOU is quite beyond my capacity :)

I wonder if that has anything to do with the bad bencoded data error I received at MySpleen when I tried to create a torrent there.

Oh, and I am now seeding from two diff locations (that's why it says there's two seeders). The second place has the same shitty up speeds most of America does, but hey, I might as well :)

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

I wonder if that has anything to do with the bad bencoded data error I received at MySpleen when I tried to create a torrent there.

Possibly. I don't know enough about torrents. Meanwhile, here's the wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode

I thought it had something to do with base64 encoding but no, bencode is completely different. 

AFAIK, blacks that were truly crushed out of existence (the data is gone) could not be recovered except via Snicker's method which were not used here.  However, there are a LOT of cases where blacks were crushed to the point of imperceptibility (there was data to work with, just not visible), and Harmy was able to recover those.