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Post #221452

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Darth Mallwalker
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Episode II by the Phantom Editor
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Date created
24-Jun-2006, 10:58 AM
Originally posted by: Hal 9000
Wait... is the delux commentary version up for download?
Yes @demonoid

gigshaft seeded both I.II and II.I

Actually he seeded I.II twice -- first as an ISO but his PC crashed midway through, then he switched to a Mac and reseeded as a DMG file.
The torrent comments tell how to convert it back to ISO.

When I ran the conversion, the program gave a non-fatal error message when a 32bit variable overflowed, presumably because the total file size is greater than 2^32. Despite the error, the resulting ISO seems to work fine on my standalone player.

Never satisfied, for grins I opened the old torrent with my converted ISO. I was 99% complete. Another peer was still hanging on to the old torrent, and he had the missing bits, so between us we had a distributed copy. We both finished, as did at least one other peer who came along later.

That old ISO torrent got deleted eventually, so if you go to demonoid now you'll only find the reseeded DMG.
I suspect gigshaft didn't understand how we were able to finish the ISO torrent, since he had never finished seeding it.

Anyway, the moral of the story is:
Even though the DMG > ISO conversion isn't identical to the original ISO, the VIDEO_TS files within them are identical.
If you see an error message during the conversion, you should still end up with correct VIDEO_TS files.