Sunday, February 27, 2011

The Series



EDIT: Is your torrent download stuck at 98%? Read the bottom of this post to find out why.

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Alright, here it is, the entire Chronologically LOST series for you available in a single torrent.  I ended up getting a little behind due to the holidays and then had some formatting issues, but that's all out of the way now.  Some things to keep in mind:

-The size of this torrent is 63.4GB, which ended up being smaller than expected, and only about 50% bigger than the original episodes.  It contains every episode that has been posted on here, along with some cover art that I made.

-Regarding format, every episode has been converted into an MP4 video file using Handbrake.  I've tested and ensured that all of these episodes are compatible with any Apple A4 device, meaning the iPhone 4, the iPad, and Apple TV 2 (and should be compatible with any future Apple devices).  I can't speak to the compatibility on any Andriod, Windows Mobile, etc. devices, because I didn't have the means to test on them.  I also would not expect these to work on older Apple devices, just because the video restrictions would have forced me to downgrade the quality of the episodes.  All of the episodes should be displayed in a 720x480 resolution, standard widescreen 480p format.

-Now, my attempt was to make these episodes as close to DVD quality as I could, at the very least improve upon the initial quality of the FLV files that I first released.  I'd say I did a pretty good job overall, although it's probably not perfect due to a couple reasons.  First is just because when I initially ripped these episodes from my DVDs, some of the episodes converted better than the others, and I probably didn't have a great grasp of what I was doing.  Second, Adobe Premiere is incredibly fickle, and I had to re-convert more episodes than I would have liked to get them to Premiere's liking, so it certainly affected the way some episodes turned out (Specifically there were some problems with the Season 6 episodes, like Ab Aeterno for example).  So, in the end the quality is pretty good, not perfect, but I'm happy with the results.

-I know some people would probably like to see this done in HD (I'm one of them), but the process of ripping, re-converting, and re-integrating all the new HD video into the project would end up taking forever, and I just don't have the time or energy to go through all that.  It's a nice thought, but just not feasible.

I think that's everything.  I will be hosting the torrent at all times, so you shouldn't have any problems downloading the show.  I may not always be able to give all of my bandwith, as I may need to upload other things, etc., but I plan on at least seeding the torrent for the forseeable future.

I'm not expecting to make any future posts at this time, so this will be my farewell of sorts to you all.  I'll still get any comments you may leave on here, and I'll try my best to respond to them.  In the mean time, download the torrent, seed as much as you can so that others can enjoy it, and thanks for watching.

Download Torrent

EDIT: Well, I was hoping I'd actually be able to successfully seed all 101 episodes, but it looks like it wasn't meant to be.  When I checked the compatibility of every episode, I didn't spend too much time checking the content of each episode.  Well, turns out Episodes 21 and 23 are actually just duplicates of 20 and 22.  Oops.  So, I've stopped seeding those episodes, which means there's no way for anyone to completely download the torrent.

However, I've set up a second torrent that contains only those 2 episodes, so you can download those separately.  Again, apologies for the screwup.

Torrent for Episodeds 021 & 023

39 comments:

  1. Thank you so much for all your work!!!

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  2. Yay.

    Does this include all the fixes that where discussed in previous comments? Eg, missing scenes?

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  3. Big thanks. I really appreciate all the work you did just to give us this opportunity.

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  4. Thanks guys.

    @SmackleFunky Yes, I tried to incorporate any edits that were discussed, hopefully I didn't miss any.

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  5. I just want to tell you that I think you're amazing. :) Thanks for all your hard work! It is appreciated so much. Cheers!

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  6. Mike, thanks a TRILLION for your hard work on this! I'm going to start watching it tomorrow, if I can, and I'll post again letting you know what I think. I'm so excited! Woohoo!

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  7. Thanks a bunch for doing this. Let's hope everyone can pitch in and seed this a bit so everyone that wants it can get it :)

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  8. Thanks for all your time and effort, I am excited about watching this!

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  9. thanks for this, its amazing!
    been downloading for 8 days now, and im stuck at 52%
    please seed :)

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  10. Thanks for the kind words, everyone.

    @lucyvanpelt Patience, please. :)

    It's a 65GB torrent and my uploading speed is capped out at 80KB/s, so you have to give it time before I can upload enough to get more seeders involved. I think the highest completed user I've seen so far is at 56%, so you're right up there.

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  11. I got an error at 91.8%. It says files missing. I think that is more than just the 2 episodes. Any advise here?

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  12. @wayne Hmm, that's an odd error to be getting. That doesn't sound like an error you'd get if there's a problem with the torrent, but rather perhaps a problem with how the files are being stored on your computer.

    Maybe you're storing the files on a network drive, or an external hard drive that was turned off, or something along those lines, I know I've received similar error messages before in those situations.

    Only suggestion I can make without any further info would be to try stopping the torrent and then starting it back up again and see if that reset fixes the problem.

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  13. @mike Thanks! I think the problem was that I moved some of the files to my movies folder so I could stream them on my xbox, before the download was finished. Seems to be working now.

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  14. yes mike, those are wise words you speak :)
    I was just getting all excited for a lost marathon!
    Im at 97%!! yipee!!
    will seed!
    thanks again.

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  15. -Again, apologies for the screw up.

    You're funny... stuff your sorry's in a sack! You get a free pass in life for <-THIS-> whole thing.

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  16. The updated torrent is forbidden...

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  17. Yeah forbidden for me too

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  18. Would it make sense to release a new torrent with the complete data? People can still point it to the same directory as the existing so that it continues from where it left off.

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  19. @SmackleFunky @Singe Sorry about that, my webhost was having some issues last night which is why you were getting the forbidden message. Should be okay now.

    @SmackleFunky In theory yes, that would be the way to go. However, considering the number of people that have already downloaded the original torrent, I'd have to get all of those people to download the new torrent in order to get seeders, and there's just no guarantee of that happening, plus the people that are still downloading the old torrent would lose seeders that move over to the new torrent. I'd love it if there was an easier way to do it, but I think logistically it would be too much of a mess.

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  20. Mine is on 99% several days now

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  21. @Fabian Please see the edit to my post. You will not be able to download all 100% of the torrent because 2 episodes are incorrect. There is a second torrent that contains the correct episodes.

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  22. I have started to watch the first few episodes and this is great. This gives to Lost a new very very crazy perspective. You have done a very good job here. Thank's again.

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  23. hey. thanks a lot for doing all of this work for everyone. i've had a blast watching this series.

    the only problem is when i downloaded the new series torrent, episode 99 never finished and is unplayable. would anybody be willing to upload just that episode so i could avoid re-downloading the entire torrent? i would just download the original one, but my blu ray player won't play flash video and every conversion program i've used reduces the quality too much.

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  24. Once I get the Blu Rays and more hard drive space I may do an HD version myself.

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  25. @David Mathew Wow, that sounds like quite the project, but you have my support, good luck if you do it!

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  26. BTW, I'm downloading now. Could someone seed?

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  27. @David Mathew Don't worry, it's being seeded, you just can't tell because no one is seeding 100% of the torrent due to the two bad episodes.

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  28. I really appreciate your work on this project. I was thinking of creating this myself. Luckily I checked on the Internet, and saw that you had already created this huge project. Would take hundreds of hours, so I'm glad I found it. You did a much better job than I could do as well.

    However, I think it's crucial that I bring to your attention that a few scenes are missing. You are missing the scene where Claire's boyfriend breaks up with her, and all this stuff with Sun and Jin's marriage going haywire, as well as the whole bit with the father in law getting Jin to go threaten that guy to reopen the business, and Jin coming home with his hands all bloody. There are probably more scenes missing as well. I believe this is what Episodes 21 and 23 were originally supposed to be, but something got mixed up.

    I really hope a fix can be made to this, it's kind of a bummer.

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  29. @anakin_888 If you'll see my edit to the original post, you will see that episodes 21 and 23 were accidentally replaced by duplicates of episodes 20 and 22 in the torrent. Therefore, I have provide a link to a second torrent that you can download that has the two correct episodes that were missing. If I'm somehow mistaken please let me know, but I believe that should solve everything for you.

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  30. Yes LOL, you are right. I downloaded them now, didn't take long. I feel stupid now.

    Oh well... at least I got this chance to thank you for your work. You really did an awesome, professional job. I'm glad I didn't have to do it.

    I'm seeding this torrent like crazy, being doing so for weeks... I have already seeded 65.1 GB. I had no real problems downloading, and I got everything now.

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  31. @anakin_888 Glad to hear it, and thanks for the kind words. Also, thanks for seeding, it's much appreciated.

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  32. Really amazing job man. I tip my hat off to you and really appreciate your understanding and patience of everyone and their complaining for something that is f r e e.

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  33. @Alex0402 Thanks! It was something I was going to do regardless, so I figured I might as well try and share it with as many people as possible.

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  34. Hey folks! I read this entire thread about episodes 21 and 22. I downloaded those fine through the second torrent. But the first torrent has been at 99% for a day now. Should I stop that download and just let it seed or will it get to 100% eventually?

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  35. @Kyle You will not be able to get to 100%, because I am the original seeder, and I am not seeding episodes 21 and 22 in the original torrent, since they were defective. Therefore, you can't get any higher than 99% if you're trying to download the entire torrent. Please feel free to continue to seed with it at 99% complete, just know it won't get to 100%. Thanks for downloading!

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  36. This is amazing i just watched ep 15 this flows so well it's fun to see just some random scene from season five when they are flashing around in time... Utorrent had 100 and 101 after ep 10 (I've been downloading a few at a time.) So i got all mixed up this is so awesome. the scenes from the constant were awesome i loved how it just blacked out congrats brotha

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  37. I am so glad I found this site, and am able to download this torrent. I have been toying with the idea of doing this myself for quite some time. But realistically, I would never have had the time to do it.

    Thank you for all your hard work!

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