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Originally posted by: Darth Mallwalker
Doctor M's SWANH_RTW @demonoid


HELLS YEAH!!!!!!!!!

“My skill are no longer as Mad as the once were” RiK

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Originally posted by: Rikter
Originally posted by: Darth Mallwalker
Doctor M's SWANH_RTW @demonoid


HELLS YEAH!!!!!!!!!


Yeeees!
There's good in the Original Trilogy, and it's worth fighting for.
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
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Be warned, I'm trying to get in touch with Darth Mallwalker... I tried to help seed the torrent, but the hash isn't matching my master files.
It could be just one of those bittorrent-y flukes, or not.
I've asked him to run a checksum on the files, but no answer from him yet.

Dr. M

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Here's the last three lines of the SFV file inside the torrent:

; End of SFV file.
;Q2-1c5989f9621f09e
;Q2-MORJf+yzxQE=
;Q2-//8=

M, does your master SFV file have those Q2 comments at the bottom ? I wonder if those are the missing 0.1% ?

I don't know the meaning of those Q2 comments, nor did I put them there. They were already in there when segaflip posted to a.b.starwars.

The payload matches your official SFV checksums. I double-checked before I started seeding.
Fifteen files inside VIDEO_TS plus the ReadMe.txt all match.

To any leechers who are skittish: You don't have to take my word for it.
Just grab Doctor M's official SFV file (hyperlinked on the first page of this thread) and see for yourself.

However, in practice you must take into account the “fuckwit factor”. Just talk to Darth Mallwalker…
-Moth3r

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For the sequels I'll use the SFV file from your hyperlink, instead of one from Usenet with ;Q2- at the end.

Anybody know what that ;Q2- means ? Or what app might put it there (I don't think WinSFV does it) ?

I'm dropping out of super_seeder to regular seed mode, since I see a distributed copy already out there.

However, in practice you must take into account the “fuckwit factor”. Just talk to Darth Mallwalker…
-Moth3r

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FYI, if you blew this off as I did because you have been unable to register for demonoid, well good news. I just checked this morning and demonoid registrations are open. Act fast because I know this is the first time I've ever seen them open.
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Complete text of my sfv file. Hmmm.
I was going to say it could be just a fluke from the bittorrent hashing but now I wonder.
I really don't no what to tell you.

; Star Wars, Ep IV - A New Hope
; Reinventing The Wheel
; v2 with fixed audio
;
; Generated by Easy SFV Creator 2.7.0 on 31 August 2005 at 2:35:15 AM.
;
; File Size (Bytes) Time/Date
; --------------------- ------------- ---------
; ReadMe.txt 719 12:28:48 23/08/2005
; VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.BUP 14,336 02:28:24 31/08/2005
; VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO 14,336 02:28:24 31/08/2005
; VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.VOB 116,736 02:08:05 31/08/2005
; VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.BUP 18,432 02:28:24 31/08/2005
; VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO 18,432 02:28:24 31/08/2005
; VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.VOB 116,736 02:08:05 31/08/2005
; VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB 3,483,648 02:08:05 31/08/2005
; VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_0.BUP 81,920 02:28:24 31/08/2005
; VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_0.IFO 81,920 02:28:24 31/08/2005
; VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_0.VOB 116,736 02:08:05 31/08/2005
; VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_1.VOB 1,073,565,696 02:08:06 31/08/2005
; VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_2.VOB 1,073,565,696 02:13:29 31/08/2005
; VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_3.VOB 1,073,565,696 02:18:09 31/08/2005
; VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_4.VOB 1,073,565,696 02:22:41 31/08/2005
; VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_5.VOB 297,947,136 02:27:11 31/08/2005
;
ReadMe.txt BD1B2951
VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.BUP E09B34B8
VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO E09B34B8
VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.VOB 7840CE50
VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.BUP DFBA96C1
VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO DFBA96C1
VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.VOB 7840CE50
VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB F7662B50
VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_0.BUP 30EAAFA7
VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_0.IFO 30EAAFA7
VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_0.VOB 7840CE50
VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_1.VOB BCC1EBAF
VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_2.VOB 2C332023
VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_3.VOB 944EB1F0
VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_4.VOB 18C1C2D2
VIDEO_TS\VTS_02_5.VOB 8FA69798
; End of SFV file.

Dr. M

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Yup that was it DMW, I copied those 3 lines onto the end of my SFV file and did a rehash.
Now it says 100%.
Whatever they are, those lines are comments, but I have no idea where they came from.

Dr. M

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damn just because of the svf file?
There's good in the Original Trilogy, and it's worth fighting for.
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
http://www.myspace.com/harlock415
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Don't worry about it. Since the SFV file doesn't effect the actual DVD and it doesn't scan itself it won't effect any discs burned from the torrent.
If it really bothers you, after downloading open the .sfv file with notepad and delete:

;Q2-1c5989f9621f09e
;Q2-MORJf+yzxQE=
;Q2-//8=


and re-save. You now have a perfect copy (actually don't burn the "Torrent downloaded from Demonoid.com.txt" file either).

Dr. M

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Originally posted by: Darth Mallwalker
Here's the last three lines of the SFV file inside the torrent:

; End of SFV file.
;Q2-1c5989f9621f09e
;Q2-MORJf+yzxQE=
;Q2-//8=

I don't know the meaning of those Q2 comments, nor did I put them there. They were already in there when segaflip posted to a.b.starwars.


(Waving hand) Oooh! Oooh! I know this one! QuickSfv will put crap like:
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;Q2-1c08d009dd87920
;Q2-QK0ePiCCxgE=
;Q2-4A==
-----------------------------------
at the end of the sfv file, after it checks, if you tell it to "Update DB" - it will store the results for the files you have, so that when you download more of the files, you don't have wait around for it to re-check the ones you've already checked.
(pause for breath)
That can be a bad setting if you're moving files to a drive that's corrupting new files... (I had an md5 utility set that way & lost some nice things). QuickPar does this without asking, but at least it remembers the path & re-checks after a move (and it stores the results in a cache, not in the par file).

And, uh, to continue rambling, FYI: I've read that sfv wasn't meant for large files - over, umm, 15 Megs, I think it was. An md5 or par-information-file can be relied on - they were designed with huge files in mind. I'm not criticizing anyone, I just like annoying people with that factiod, because almost everyone depends on sfv.

One day I found... 10 years had got behind me. Next day was worse.

 

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Good info JT.
I used Easy SFV Creator to build the checksum, but the fact is, it's the first time I had ever done anything of the sort.

I was going on the assumption that SFV was a more modern checksum than MD5.

I didn't even know what a PAR was when I did it either. PAR can do a checksum file without recovery files?

Dr. M

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Originally posted by: Doctor M
Good info JT.
I used Easy SFV Creator to build the checksum, but the fact is, it's the first time I had ever done anything of the sort.

I was going on the assumption that SFV was a more modern checksum than MD5.

I didn't even know what a PAR was when I did it either. PAR can do a checksum file without recovery files?


I found out about Md5, then Par from my Usenet leeching. I've lost data in a variety of interesting ways, so I read the boring stuff that I came across, about them (as best I could).


The smallest par file <filename>.par2 is just a verification file, but QuickPar makes you create recovery files with it - you can set it to the minimum recovery percentage (seconds or minutes) & then delete the recovery one. But QuickPar doesn't do sub-folders. I wish it did, partly because it also checks its own par files for corruption. I like to make a small recovery set, of the video_ts folder (in case I get a bad spot on the disc) and stick it in the DVD-rom folder.

I've been using MKW, for md5's, but there might be better freebies floating around. (The shn and other compressions have been surpassed by flac, so it hasn't been updated for years). You can tell it to add shell extensions, so you can do all the contents and subfolders of a folder from a right-click. (To make an md5 for a dvd, with it, you'd have the video_ts, dvd-rom, and so on, as subfolders in a parent folder, and right-click on the parent). The md5 file is a lot quicker (less slow) than par, because the md5 proggie doens't have to calculate recovery data.


I've googled up bits and pieces about it - didn't find the exact page that I read before, but the same info. And that md4, then md5 were developed as upgrades to the CRC 32 method that SFV uses. CRC 32 uses a 32-bit hash, and md5 uses 128-bit. The higher bits, (and other headache-inducing details), keep it from giving a false-ok (a bigger problem with bigger files) by some ridiculously greater factor. CRC 32, then Md5 caught on in mainstream proggies. Par uses the md5 hash for its testing. (Don't ask me how par does its recovery, I think it has to do with magical pixie spells or something. ).

One day I found... 10 years had got behind me. Next day was worse.

 

Download  shows from Cable DVR (Updated! Yes, it needs a rewrite, but it's worth slogging through, anyway).

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Originally posted by: Darth Mallwalker
Doctor M's SWANH_RTW @demonoid

For some reason, I'm downloading really fast from the seeders but not uploading at all. Not connected to any peers. Yet I am uploading other torrents. Anyone else have this?

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Originally posted by: kmcherry
Originally posted by: Darth Mallwalker
Doctor M's SWANH_RTW @demonoid

For some reason, I'm downloading really fast from the seeders but not uploading at all. Not connected to any peers. Yet I am uploading other torrents. Anyone else have this?


Are you connected to peers and just not seeding at all? Then you probably just don't have any parts that any peers need at this point in time. Just stay connected and eventually some new peers will connect and you can seed them then.

Or are you only connected to seeders and not connected to any peers? I suppose it is possible (however unlikely) that there are only seeders left on this torrent and you are the only peer. (Lucky you! ) Or maybe check your connection settings. Are you limiting the number of connections per torrent? Are all those connections being consumed by connections to seeders?
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Not sure quite what happened, but after about an hour (no changes were made), I connected to a bunch of peers and am now seeding as fast as I am downloading.

Weird.
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Originally posted by: Jaiman Tuckuh
I've googled up bits and pieces about it - didn't find the exact page that I read before, but the same info. And that md4, then md5 were developed as upgrades to the CRC 32 method that SFV uses. CRC 32 uses a 32-bit hash, and md5 uses 128-bit. The higher bits, (and other headache-inducing details), keep it from giving a false-ok (a bigger problem with bigger files) by some ridiculously greater factor. CRC 32, then Md5 caught on in mainstream proggies. Par uses the md5 hash for its testing. (Don't ask me how par does its recovery, I think it has to do with magical pixie spells or something. ).
Great info JT.
Tho I say SHA1 all the way baby! with 160-bit hashes.
I've read it was developed to replace MD5.
It also happens to be what the torrent protocol uses internally.

SWESB_RTW up soon

However, in practice you must take into account the “fuckwit factor”. Just talk to Darth Mallwalker…
-Moth3r

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Originally posted by: Darth Mallwalker

SWESB_RTW up soon


Liar! It's up now!

Thanks for the upload!
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I'm seeding ANH and downloading ESB now. My up is a little slow since I'm also seeding on AsianDVDClub for another title. But I'll keep going for a few days.
There's good in the Original Trilogy, and it's worth fighting for.
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
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dammit i was out of town this weekend and demonoid registration is closed again.... anyone got an invite code they could PM me?
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Wow...

"ThePirateBay.org Raided and Shut Down"

http://slashdot.org/articles/06/05/31/1226224.shtml
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Originally posted by: trip42
Wow...

"ThePirateBay.org Raided and Shut Down"

http://slashdot.org/articles/06/05/31/1226224.shtml


That was debunked - just a little joke from the guys at TPB.
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The joke was last year. This time I think it's for real.

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Seeing as how it's still down right now, I'm pretty sure it's for real.
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Piratbay and asiandvdclub are on the same servers I hear. I wonder if ADC is just a victim by association and not a target.
There's good in the Original Trilogy, and it's worth fighting for.
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
http://www.myspace.com/harlock415