Ive been going 1337x.to but the quality is always a little shit. I want the colors to look really nice, you know?
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Striking the balance between sufficiently cryptic clues and indecipherable ones is often difficult, but it's better to err on the side of ease, so that potential prepubescent adventurers can actually solve it in 200 years.
The site you go to is usually less important than the file creator team tagged in the name of the file. Torrents will usually get posted most everywhere.
I usually have good luck with the yts or yify releases (yts.mx) for movies. They reencode stuff for minimal download size. If you've got bandwidth to burn, any full-size, non-transcoded webrip or blueray rip should be just about the same as any other though.
For TV slop, I like eztv.re, especially the reencodings by the MeGusta team, again for high quality at minimal filesize. But you'll find non-transcoded webrips at eztv too.
I didn't know what any of these acronyms were for, but I agree with your assessment. TV Slop / reality I always go for that MeGusta download. Always small and good enough quality. YTS/YIFY are good, but they're MP4s without subs. Sometimes I'll try to dig around and find a similar download that's in MKV (usually has subs included in the file).
They've gotten a little better about including the sub files, which VLC can use. seems to depend on which team member does the packaging though.
I do wind up converting a lot of yify movies to mkv and attaching downloaded sub tracks now that you mention it
I need to start doing that. Usually Plex can find some subs, but it's soooo much easier when they're packed.
I remember using yify years ago, for the sole reason that the lower bitrate that came with the smaller file size was all my computer (a netbook) could handle decoding at the time lol. So it has that going for it too
rarbg.to seems to work pretty well for me, for movies and TV. There may be better options on the private tracker side of things, but as far as public ones go, it's one of the better ones as far as I'm aware
Go to rarbg and rutracker for quality. In the latter i usually sort by размер and pick the first one that's relevant, even if there's only one seeder it's usually some Bulgarian dude with a 10000000000 Mbps connection.
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- Start talking like an idiot and swinging shit around like a sword
- Blast your eardrums out listening to Alestorm
- Collect an unhealthy amount of black powder firearms
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Site is less important than release group, bitrate, and encoder skill (hence picking release groups with skilled encoders).
Higher bitrate = more detail but also = larger file size. So stop going for 1GB movie encodes. Of course they look awful.
Do you have a 4k TV? Look for 2160p releases or 1080p releases with higher bitrates (>7000kbps).
HDR tonemapping could be an issue if the files have that in them. Try using VLC and MPV and see if one or the other looks noticeably better, it could be an issue with your playback software.
Also, if you have a 4k TV with HDR try and prefer releases that mention 10bit or HDR in them.
Find user "QXR" on 1337x. Are their releases any good for you? Still too low quality? Then step up to bigger releases. Search for your movie in the qBittorrent searcher inside the program after updating all the search engines first to install them on first run. Look for Grym, Amiable, FGT releasers and files in the double digit GB size realm. Also look into installing and running along-side it Jackett as that finds a lot more results for obscure things.
Still not enough? rutracker and find bluray remuxes, you can translate the website with free online tools. If that's inadequate then you'll have to get into a quality private tracker which will admittedly take at least a year or two of persistent effort unless you have a very good friend who trusts you with an invite. That or buy access to one or buy access to usenet or some other direct download stuff.
nyaa (eg https://nyaa.si) has the big quality for animes. Honestly I still just use pirate bay, but for quality it ain't the best.
qBittorrent/Ktorrent are great softwares. Both allow you to go into settings and ensure you only allow encrypted connections, do this to prevent most ISP snooping on IP violations.
If you're downloading stuff you must watch NOW. Qbittorrent lets you download your files sequentially so it can be streamed as you go.
qBittorrent/Ktorrent are great softwares. Both allow you to go into settings and ensure you only allow encrypted connections, do this to prevent most ISP snooping on IP violations.
This is incomplete advice, because it does nothing for DMCA bots just sitting on the swarm and determining who is trying to connect. The only real solutions are to either pay for a seedbox, or pay for a VPN.
QBittorrent also allows its connection to be forced to use a specific network adapter. Which is how it can be safely used by selecting the VPN's network adapter, it only connects to the internet once the VPN is on.
Absolutely true, hence the 'most'. Bots pretending to be a user are.. iffy.. legally and technically, in most places, though, so it's not the typical way to catch people.
Though to also claim there's a "real solution" is itself misleading, legally both of those can easily be traced back to you as well, and as those solutions are paid for and properly authorised, you won't be able claim the defence of "someone else must have been on my wifi".
I personally use qBittorrent, but I haven't looked into options since switching away from uTorrent forever ago, so there may well be better options nowadays
It's never let me down for sure. The most advanced thing I've done with it was hooking it up to Sonarr and Plex, but it works just fine for that too
transmission. It has the lowest resource usage of all the torrent clients, and it basically never crashes, I have it running for months on end on a little ARM board.
Torrenting out of your house is like shitting where you sleep. Get a seedbox from like put.io and link it to chill.institute so you can search more than one torrent site at once to grab things.
What do you mean the quality is shit? You want the colors to look nice? I dunno, are you trying to view HDR video on an SDR screen? I use MPV to watch stuff like that, it can detect HDR content and tonemap it to look good and not washed out.
