Top Gear Season 1 Rips?

Viper007Bond · March 31st, 2008, 08:36 AM

I'm going to start replacing the individual episode torrents with season packs soon. This will allow the torrents to be more easily seeded long term and keep them alive longer. It's also easier to re-upload the torrent if it gets pruned from Mininova.

However, I'm fairly out of the loop as to what quality of rips we have. What are the best quality versions of season 1 that we have?

Crazyjeeper · April 1st, 2008, 03:31 AM

I have 350mb BBC prime rips for all of season 1. I'm not sure if any better quality ones exist.

Viper007Bond · April 1st, 2008, 04:33 AM

Yeah, I'm thinking the BBC Prime ones would be best. I think some content might be missing (news? guest?), but it's better than super pixelated banner/logo ridden old Jabba rips.

Crazyjeeper · April 1st, 2008, 04:34 AM

They keep the news and guests, but they cut on the best car in the world segments.

Viper007Bond · April 1st, 2008, 04:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crazyjeeper

They keep the news and guests, but they cut on the best car in the world segments.

What was that about?

Crazyjeeper · April 1st, 2008, 04:46 AM

No idea, I just know they are 52 minutes long and that on here somebody mentioned that the reason they aren't 60 minutes is because they cut out the best car in the world segments. I have only seen the BBC prime ones that I have downloaded.

SL65 · April 1st, 2008, 08:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

What was that about?

Its the equivalent of the Restoration Ripoff segment they had where viewers would phone in and vote for something. I think the Land Rover Defender won...

Quite a good segment and a shame it didn't appear on BBC Prime eps but it certainly beats having to watch those terrible JW rips, thats for sure.

Viper007Bond · April 1st, 2008, 08:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SL65

Quite a good segment and a shame it didn't appear on BBC Prime eps but it certainly beats having to watch those terrible JW rips, thats for sure.

Okay, BBC Prime rips it is. A worthy tradeoff.

Viper007Bond · April 1st, 2008, 09:42 AM

Ice is awesome and we're sorting this out on IRC right now.

Oh, and Tweek's FTP speeds rock. images/smilies/love.gif

Ironlord · April 1st, 2008, 03:19 PM

Back when the old series (the first two, I think) were not available via FG, I found a series 1-6 torrent pack with some very questionable rips of series 1 - specifically the troublesome third and fourth episodes. These were both WMV format when everything else was AVI.

I found an AVI of episode 3 from BBC Prime which worked fine; the fourth was more problematic. The WMV is a 46-minute Jabba rip where the picture breaks up every few seconds and the picture has been resized from 16:9 to 4:3 (which makes Jeremy look about seven feet tall), which I replaced with an AVI that turned out to be the full BBC2 version, although with the aspect ratio still wrong and a slightly hazy picture. A third file of the same episode is a 56-minute BBC Prime AVI with the aspect ratio fixed.

Which versions of these would be in the series 1 pack?

Viper007Bond · April 2nd, 2008, 01:44 AM

Still working on it, but not Jabba rips. Either BBC Prime or SBS (.au) rips, still figuring out which.

argatoga · April 2nd, 2008, 07:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

Still working on it, but not Jabba rips. Either BBC Prime or SBS (.au) rips, still figuring out which.

If the SBS rips have content the Prime doesn't have can't you splice them together?

Viper007Bond · April 2nd, 2008, 07:02 AM

Okay, I downloaded a bunch of Top Gear to my PC overnight to make a comparison.

Episode #1

BBC Prime, at 57:34 long:

http://pic.phyrefile.com/v/vi/viper007bond/2008/04/02/vlcsnap-2545205.png

SBS, 350MB version (700MB available), at 59:07 long:

http://pic.phyrefile.com/v/vi/viper007bond/2008/04/02/vlcsnap-2545738.png

Seems to me SBS is what we should go with. Off to find those missing 90 seconds.

Clegg · April 2nd, 2008, 07:05 AM

I say SBS. Picture seems to be better, if nothing else.

thedguy · April 2nd, 2008, 07:07 AM

I'm thinking SBS, they seem to have more content, that alone means a lot to me.

Zuhaib · April 2nd, 2008, 07:16 AM

My vote for SBS

Viper007Bond · April 2nd, 2008, 07:21 AM

The missing content, at least some of it, is the "write us if you're a grandma and want to do a doughnut" from the end of the news (yay for watching both rips at once).

Basically, they cut it from the UK version so people wouldn't write in.

Off to compare some music now to see if it's changed due to licensing.

EDIT: I skimmed through and there's like barely any music in the episode, so nothing to change. What little there is seems to be the same.

Viper007Bond · April 2nd, 2008, 07:44 AM

350MB is on the left, 700MB is on the right. Can't tell the difference really.

http://pic.phyrefile.com/v/vi/viper007bond/2008/04/02/350.png

http://pic.phyrefile.com/v/vi/viper007bond/2008/04/02/700.png

350MB SBS rips it is.

April 1st, 2008, 03:31 AM	#2
Crazyjeeper Joined: Nov 29th, 2006 Last Online: 07:07 AM Location: Texas Age: 19 Posts: 2,799 Car: 1985 Jeep CJ7, 1997 Ford F150 Rep Power: 54	I have 350mb BBC prime rips for all of season 1. I'm not sure if any better quality ones exist. __________________ Toy: 1985 Jeep CJ7 Lifted and Locked Daily Driver: 1997 Ford F150 4.6L with a massive 220hp EVGA 780i, E8400 @ 4.0ghz, CM Hyper 212, XFX 8800GT 512mb Extreme SLI, MSI 8400GS, 2x1gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800, PC Power & Cooling 610w EPS12v, 1.6tb of HDD, CM Centurion 690.

April 1st, 2008, 04:33 AM	#3
Viper007Bond Lazy Head Dude Joined: Sep 21st, 2003 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 21,086 Car: Dodge Viper (I wish!) Rep Power: 237	Yeah, I'm thinking the BBC Prime ones would be best. I think some content might be missing (news? guest?), but it's better than super pixelated banner/logo ridden old Jabba rips. __________________ Fight back against the evil Quiky by +1'ing this post! There is no replacement for displacement. - Wolfgang Bernhard, Chief Operating Officer, Chrysler Group talking about the Dodge Viper SRT-10 ... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it. - Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005

April 1st, 2008, 04:34 AM	#4
Crazyjeeper Joined: Nov 29th, 2006 Last Online: 07:07 AM Location: Texas Age: 19 Posts: 2,799 Car: 1985 Jeep CJ7, 1997 Ford F150 Rep Power: 54	They keep the news and guests, but they cut on the best car in the world segments. __________________ Toy: 1985 Jeep CJ7 Lifted and Locked Daily Driver: 1997 Ford F150 4.6L with a massive 220hp EVGA 780i, E8400 @ 4.0ghz, CM Hyper 212, XFX 8800GT 512mb Extreme SLI, MSI 8400GS, 2x1gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800, PC Power & Cooling 610w EPS12v, 1.6tb of HDD, CM Centurion 690.

April 1st, 2008, 04:46 AM	#6
Crazyjeeper Joined: Nov 29th, 2006 Last Online: 07:07 AM Location: Texas Age: 19 Posts: 2,799 Car: 1985 Jeep CJ7, 1997 Ford F150 Rep Power: 54	No idea, I just know they are 52 minutes long and that on here somebody mentioned that the reason they aren't 60 minutes is because they cut out the best car in the world segments. I have only seen the BBC prime ones that I have downloaded. __________________ Toy: 1985 Jeep CJ7 Lifted and Locked Daily Driver: 1997 Ford F150 4.6L with a massive 220hp EVGA 780i, E8400 @ 4.0ghz, CM Hyper 212, XFX 8800GT 512mb Extreme SLI, MSI 8400GS, 2x1gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800, PC Power & Cooling 610w EPS12v, 1.6tb of HDD, CM Centurion 690.

April 1st, 2008, 09:42 AM	#9
Viper007Bond Lazy Head Dude Joined: Sep 21st, 2003 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 21,086 Car: Dodge Viper (I wish!) Rep Power: 237	Ice is awesome and we're sorting this out on IRC right now. Oh, and Tweek's FTP speeds rock. __________________ Fight back against the evil Quiky by +1'ing this post! There is no replacement for displacement. - Wolfgang Bernhard, Chief Operating Officer, Chrysler Group talking about the Dodge Viper SRT-10 ... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it. - Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005

March 31st, 2008, 08:36 AM	#1
Viper007Bond Lazy Head Dude Joined: Sep 21st, 2003 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 21,086 Car: Dodge Viper (I wish!) Rep Power: 237	Top Gear Season 1 Rips? I'm going to start replacing the individual episode torrents with season packs soon. This will allow the torrents to be more easily seeded long term and keep them alive longer. It's also easier to re-upload the torrent if it gets pruned from Mininova. However, I'm fairly out of the loop as to what quality of rips we have. What are the best quality versions of season 1 that we have? __________________ Fight back against the evil Quiky by +1'ing this post! There is no replacement for displacement. - Wolfgang Bernhard, Chief Operating Officer, Chrysler Group talking about the Dodge Viper SRT-10 ... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it. - Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005

April 1st, 2008, 03:19 PM	#10
Ironlord Joined: Jun 1st, 2006 Last Online: January 6th, 2009 Location: A dark cave in Sherwood Forest Age: 29 Posts: 700 Rep Power: 32	Back when the old series (the first two, I think) were not available via FG, I found a series 1-6 torrent pack with some very questionable rips of series 1 - specifically the troublesome third and fourth episodes. These were both WMV format when everything else was AVI. I found an AVI of episode 3 from BBC Prime which worked fine; the fourth was more problematic. The WMV is a 46-minute Jabba rip where the picture breaks up every few seconds and the picture has been resized from 16:9 to 4:3 (which makes Jeremy look about seven feet tall), which I replaced with an AVI that turned out to be the full BBC2 version, although with the aspect ratio still wrong and a slightly hazy picture. A third file of the same episode is a 56-minute BBC Prime AVI with the aspect ratio fixed. Which versions of these would be in the series 1 pack?

April 2nd, 2008, 01:44 AM	#11
Viper007Bond Lazy Head Dude Joined: Sep 21st, 2003 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 21,086 Car: Dodge Viper (I wish!) Rep Power: 237	Still working on it, but not Jabba rips. Either BBC Prime or SBS (.au) rips, still figuring out which. __________________ Fight back against the evil Quiky by +1'ing this post! There is no replacement for displacement. - Wolfgang Bernhard, Chief Operating Officer, Chrysler Group talking about the Dodge Viper SRT-10 ... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it. - Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005

April 2nd, 2008, 07:02 AM	#13
Viper007Bond Lazy Head Dude Joined: Sep 21st, 2003 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 21,086 Car: Dodge Viper (I wish!) Rep Power: 237	Okay, I downloaded a bunch of Top Gear to my PC overnight to make a comparison. Episode #1 BBC Prime, at 57:34 long: SBS, 350MB version (700MB available), at 59:07 long: Seems to me SBS is what we should go with. Off to find those missing 90 seconds. __________________ Fight back against the evil Quiky by +1'ing this post! There is no replacement for displacement. - Wolfgang Bernhard, Chief Operating Officer, Chrysler Group talking about the Dodge Viper SRT-10 ... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it. - Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005

April 2nd, 2008, 07:05 AM	#14
Clegg Joined: Oct 8th, 2007 Last Online: 06:57 AM Location: Moore, Oklahoma Age: 20 Posts: 235 Car: '92 Chevy Truck / '94 Honda Accord Rep Power: 13	I say SBS. Picture seems to be better, if nothing else. __________________ My Little Place on the Internet

April 2nd, 2008, 07:07 AM	#15
thedguy ^ will bore you to death Joined: Jun 18th, 2004 Last Online: 06:16 AM Location: Under the Counter at McD's Posts: 5,901 Car: 1990 Mazda MX-5 Rep Power: 75	I'm thinking SBS, they seem to have more content, that alone means a lot to me.

April 2nd, 2008, 07:16 AM	#16
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April 2nd, 2008, 07:21 AM	#17
Viper007Bond Lazy Head Dude Joined: Sep 21st, 2003 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 21,086 Car: Dodge Viper (I wish!) Rep Power: 237	The missing content, at least some of it, is the "write us if you're a grandma and want to do a doughnut" from the end of the news (yay for watching both rips at once). Basically, they cut it from the UK version so people wouldn't write in. Off to compare some music now to see if it's changed due to licensing. EDIT: I skimmed through and there's like barely any music in the episode, so nothing to change. What little there is seems to be the same. __________________ Fight back against the evil Quiky by +1'ing this post! There is no replacement for displacement. - Wolfgang Bernhard, Chief Operating Officer, Chrysler Group talking about the Dodge Viper SRT-10 ... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it. - Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005

April 2nd, 2008, 07:44 AM	#18
Viper007Bond Lazy Head Dude Joined: Sep 21st, 2003 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 21,086 Car: Dodge Viper (I wish!) Rep Power: 237	350MB is on the left, 700MB is on the right. Can't tell the difference really. 350MB SBS rips it is. __________________ Fight back against the evil Quiky by +1'ing this post! There is no replacement for displacement. - Wolfgang Bernhard, Chief Operating Officer, Chrysler Group talking about the Dodge Viper SRT-10 ... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it. - Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005

April 2nd, 2008, 07:52 AM	#19
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