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Which uploaders do you rely for TV show torrents?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

My mate Gary who puts them on his enormous Plex server. He’s a good lad.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Everyone needs a Gary in their life.

I'm happy to be the Gary for my less technically inclined friends. Their lack of knowledge would get me kicked off private trackers if I invited them so they could curate their own collections, so it's just easier to be the guy who makes it easy for them.

Be like Gary, sharing is caring.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Gary is an unsung hero. People should try to be more like Gary.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

if it's a relatively modern show, QxR. if it's an ongoing show, and I'm trying to get the episodes as they come, I'll just wait for the first 1080px265 available. it's usually ELiTE

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I've had MeGusta at top weight for quite a while (years I think), should probably try ELiTE, wonder what the bitrate diff is...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

MeGusta had bad quality episodes a few times, I like elite much better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I like MeGusta, ELiTE, and NTb.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

MeGusta is trash and I don't like their encoding.
The group is also considered low tier by Trash-guides.

Personally I haveily gravitate towards NTb releases.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Like... which scene groups or individuals?

Don't really have a particular favorite, although Subsplease is pretty snappy for anime if you want it as-it-releases.

Otherwise, for groups focused on US/UK/European media, whatever's got the quality range I'm seeking and preferably a season pack all from the same group/same quality.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Frugal Usenet works great for me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Not indexers. Uploaders.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’m probably in the minority, but I like the Epsilon remuxes and then compress it myself to av1 with ffmpeg. DTS-HD MA track goes to opus. I keep the English subtitles as-is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Interesting, do you have an automated workflow for this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You absolutely could automate it, but I personally enjoy making the encodes, so I don’t. Especially with movies, sometimes you use opus but on a select few, like the Dune movies, I keep the original atmos audio because it makes the movie experience better imo.

But for tv series, my ffmpeg settings are pretty static so it would be trivial to automate that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Good point, but if I'm going to the bother of transcoding remuxes to AV1, I'll probably knock up a script, at least for the first while.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I don’t know how Joy gets such quality from small files, but damn.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I don't really care about the name attached to the file (I'm more interested in quality and compatibility). Usually it seems to be something by NTFS (Not Here To Fuck Spiders), SuccessfulCrab, EDITH or ETHEL.