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My DVD was created and packaged in accordance with a set of established standards (well, almost).

There's no DVD ROM content, cover JPGs or NFOs on the disc itself. I'll put the NFOs up on the web eventually.

When Metallaxis asked me about uploading to Myspleen, my first preference was for an FTP-style directory including sample VOB and SFV checksum (as found on the big private sites), but as he had already deleted the RAR files, I requested he seed the IMG file instead. In the future, if anyone wants to upload TESB or ROTJ they can do it however they see fit.

An IMG file is a direct copy of the DVD, even down to the volume name (my Deleted Magic DVD is named by default by Nero as "NEW". I'm sure that's not the name ocpmovie used).

Ripping an already-burnt DVD to an image file for reseeding is just as easy as copying the VIDEO_TS folder.

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Originally posted by: Moth3r
Ripping an already-burnt DVD to an image file for reseeding is just as easy as copying the VIDEO_TS folder.


Cool, I've never really had much to do with image files and I had just presumed that ISOs, etc, could vary and that possibly the ripping program entered its own details in the file, therefore causing errors for downloaded copies. But if that isn't the case then there's one of my reasons answered!

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Interesting, I also thought that the image changed slightly when reripped. I didn't think the structure totally changed or anything, but I've heard of several cases where people have tried to rerip the image and reseed something and they ended up with only 98 or 99 percent complete.
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Personally, I'm easy with both ISO and VIDEO_TS folders, although I do remember a number of posts concerning burning DVDs with Jacket_P folders, so I can see how ISO images remove a lot of grief...

With regards to reseeding, considering how cheap DVD-Rs are these days, I personally burn a Video disc to watch and a data disc with the .torrent file to archive for later seeding if needed.

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Not to be too unconstructive or anything, but I'm happy enough to get any of the amazing work that's out there, that I'll deal with whatever technological problems I have on my end...
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As somebody said, it has been a lot of years without a firewall or an antivirus.


If you're not running an antivirus program, how do you know you don't have a virus? It's not like Windows has some kind of built-in warning that tells you your programs are infected. I'm not dissing you or anything, but I've seen plenty of machines where the person said "I don't have any viruses and I'm not running anti-virus". Then, once an anti-virus program was installed, it turned out they had a ton of viruses running on their machine.

As for my opinion on this matter, I'm ok with however the distributor wants to distribute their stuff. The only problem I had recently was the EditDroid/Mysterious Mysteries releases. I had no idea they all had extra content until I saw the updates in the thread. At that point I just had to download the extra stuff and burn a new DVD for each one. And I try to seed everything I get off myspleen at least 1:1 if not more.
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Windows 98...
Only thing I will say... Please join us in the 21st century...
And I am not refering to Windows Me.

Its bad enough 9x has the worst tcp/ip stack (its a hack of NT4 RAS thats been patched a dozen times). And if you're using it and thus stuck w/ fat32, then you shouldn't be dealing with DVD media anyway.

On the flip side, though, DVD-r scene releases are in .iso format, BUT they are then rar'd and broken into usually 50mb files.
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Originally posted by: TheCassidy
Not to be too unconstructive or anything, but I'm happy enough to get any of the amazing work that's out there, that I'll deal with whatever technological problems I have on my end...


Spoken like a TRUE fan!

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"Windows 98...
Only thing I will say... Please join us in the 21st century..."

<--- still running Microsoft BOB.

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<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
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I'm going to throw my two cents in here. I've had difficulties in the past with burning video_ts folders. Maybe it's my burner, maybe it's Nero, maybe it's something else, but it's about 50-50 as to whether or not it'll work. On the other hand, using Alcohol 120%, I never have a problem burning an ISO. It's gotten to the point that when I do download a video_ts folder, I make an ISO image of the DVD video, and then burn the ISO to a disc. Sure it takes a bit longer, but I deal and don't have as many junk discs. Seriously, it was becoming just insane.
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Have you tried slowing down the speed at which you burn the disc in Nero?

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<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

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MS BOB was sweet...

By the way, if you're having trouble burning the VIDEO_TS folder, I suggest using DVD Shrink (dvdshrink.org). Just use it to open up the files and then you can either burn it straight to disc if you have Nero or you can write it to an iso image. It's worked great for me.
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Originally posted by: Gillean
Originally posted by: Moth3r
Ripping an already-burnt DVD to an image file for reseeding is just as easy as copying the VIDEO_TS folder.


Cool, I've never really had much to do with image files and I had just presumed that ISOs, etc, could vary and that possibly the ripping program entered its own details in the file, therefore causing errors for downloaded copies. But if that isn't the case then there's one of my reasons answered!
Forget that, it appears that I've fed you duff info. I've just tried using DVD Decrypter to rip my burnt disc to an image file, and the new image is about 2KB larger than the original.

(I've previously ripped a burnt CD to a BIN file, and found the image file to be exactly the same as the original BIN, so I falsely assumed the same would hold true with a DVD).

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Originally posted by: Moth3r
Forget that, it appears that I've fed you duff info.
No you haven't. You just used the wrong application.
Maybe DVD Decrypter can't do it right, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.
I do it all the time in a UNIX environment using the dd command.

However, in practice you must take into account the “fuckwit factor”. Just talk to Darth Mallwalker…
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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
Have you tried slowing down the speed at which you burn the disc in Nero?


Burned the same disc at 16X, 8X, 4X, and 2.4X and got the same error every time.
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Originally posted by: Darth Mallwalker
Originally posted by: Moth3r
Forget that, it appears that I've fed you duff info.
No you haven't. You just used the wrong application.
Maybe DVD Decrypter can't do it right, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.
I do it all the time in a UNIX environment using the dd command.

Regardless, I can see it making reseeding difficult for those who don't know what they are doing.
As long as the image files are no bigger then around 4478 megabytes I don't really care, as I can burn them as a data-disc, I'm just saying that I can see some people having problems.
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I dont see why people care what version the release come in, be it iso, img, video_ts, or any other format that I left out. It is not to hard to go between them.
If you dont like iso use winrar to extract the folders.
If you dont like folders get imgtool to make an image file.
For other formats you could get Daemon Tools to mount the image and copy with your burning software.
Personally I like video_ts folders, have had problems with dvds burned from iso. When reburn from folders extracted with winrar the dvds works fine. Personally i just like to get the releases, begger cant be choosers.
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Originally posted by: segaflip
I dont see why people care what version the release come in, be it iso, img, video_ts, or any other format that I left out. It is not to hard to go between them.
If you dont like iso use winrar to extract the folders.


I explained exactly why I don't particularly like ISO files for torrents already, so I don't get what isn't to understand. Your 'solution' doesn't solve any of the problems and for me really only introduces new ones (as I find ISOs much simpler to burn).

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I don't think I've ever downloaded a release as an ISO. Always the folders with the files. It takes a while to compile them into an ISO before I can watch them.... I think releases as ISOs is a great idea. According to a survey in 2006 only about 2% of machines were running windows 98. And that was a year ago. And really, how many computers running that system have DVD burners?

I think this is just crazy. It's like complaining that the new Intel Macs wont boot up into OS 7 or something like that. If you're so into these releases you'll make a partition for WinXP. And don't lie to yourself. Win98 is probably more vulnerable to virus attacks. Its still windows, it can still get infected.