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From: El Smeggo <el@smeggo.org>
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Subject: Re: QUESTION: I Have Compressed Criterion DVD's. Are Lossy Uploads Frowned Upon?
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:58:30 -0500
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>>I knew it would take time to RAR-package a dual-layer DVD, but 2 1/2
>>hours? Even with a dual-core processor, that seems slow. Is that
>>normal?
>
>That does seem long, have you definitely got the "Compression method" in winrar set to 'store'
>rather than anything else. 'Store' simply splits the file into multiple parts the size of which
>you dictate, the other options effort a compression which takes both a long time for yourself,
>the compressor, but also a long time for the extractor.
I'll check that. Thank you for the tip. Is "store" the setting you
recommend? I tried it and it took only a few minutes to RAR up a
movie.
>
>Seperately, if you search in this group for 'NZB project' you will see the titles from the
>Criterion Collection already uploaded to either this group or others. There are a few that are
>getting close to falling off of the premium servers, but most are still repairable. I have
>personally collected all bar around 20 titles from the full catalogue in the last 2 months alone.
That's how I found a couple of things, yes, thank you. I also check
this site for titles:
http://www.binsearch.info/
>
>To my mind the following have not been posted in their 'untouched' form in the past 400 days or so.
>If you have any of these untouched, there are are probably a few people who would appreciate them:
>
>050 - And the Ship Sails On [Federico Fellini, 1984]
>156 - Hearts and Minds [Peter Davis]
>191 - Jubilee [Derek Jarman]
>198 - Ali: Fear Eats the Soul [Rainer Werner Fassbinder]
>204 - The Marriage of Maria Braun [Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978]
>205 - Veronika Voss [Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982]
>211 - The Silence [Ingmar Bergman, 1963]
>289 - Hoop Dreams [Steve James, 1994]
>303 - Bad Timing [Nicolas Roeg, 1980]
>375 - Green for Danger [Sidney Gilliat, 1946]
>383 - Brute Force [Jules Dassin, 1947] *The NZB project only leads to an avi.
>434 - Classe tous risques [Claude Sautet]
>
>Good luck,
>mookah
I have a few of the titles listed, but unfortunately, they have been
"touched," or compressed. Had I known about, or anticipated
partaking in, this group, I would have made lossless rips of some
things and left them on my external hard drive.
Smeggy
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