bsg: MST3K s11 Return & s12 Guantlet BluRay AVC & HEVC 1080p 6ch subs w. s12.hevc.v2!

[bsg4you]

UPDATE: s12.hevc has been reposted with the correct filenames, huge thanks to DrOzymandias!!! Corrected links and magnet are below

Here are 4x new shares (links below) of MST3K BluRay encodes in both AVC/x264 and HEVC/x265 formats:

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s11 x264 - 22h02m11s 59.8GB The Return AVC-AC3
s11 x265 - 22h02m11s 42.0GB The Return HEVC-AAC

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s12 x264 - 08h07m35s 22.9GB The Gauntlet AVC-AC3
s12 x265 - 08h07m35s 14.9GB The Gauntlet HEVC-AAC

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AFAIK, these are the only BluRay shares for s11 and s12.

Artsy stuff:

tl;dr - I started off liking the new MST and now I love it!

Initially, I liked new MST but 3x things bugged me:
1) Baron and Hampton sounded too similar
2) the riffs sometimes come so fast they seem crammed in
3) no old cast as regular performers, especially no Trace who is my fave

Time has passed and since the lock down I've cycled through MST from KTMA to s12 a number of times, sometimes hitting 5-6x per day.

And I love love love the new MST now and my feelings have evolved about my former reservations:
1) I can tell new Tom and new Crow apart no problem now; watching enough did the trick
2) I expect lots of riffs now! Watching many older MSTs, even post-s1 shows, seems to not have enough jokes now
3) I've read about the old vs new cast issue with new MST and have come to agree with Joel that new performers are the way to go

I really love the new s11/s12 cast and Baron is now my all time fave Tom! I also like the vibe between Jonah and the Bots; it's a good balance between Joel the Parent and Mike the Punching Bag. For the old cast, many did make cameos and do writing for some episodes. And in the recent MST3K Social Distancing Riff-Along Special I really liked Emily and the new crew so new can be good. I can't wait for s13 or whatever Joel and Shout are able to cook up.

Techie stuff:

I had already done AVC and HEVC encodes of the s11 BluRays but I varied the RF quality level to compensate for big variations in the episode sources. In particular, both Wizards Of The Lost Kingdoms film have tons of video noise which causes the encoder to toss lots of bits into the encode trying to render all the little noise dots accurately. This would make the Wizards encode sizes balloon so for the old s11 encodes I raised the Wizards RF values (which lowers the quality) to keep the size down.

For this new s11 release, I researched denoise filters and did extensive testing using NLMeans and it's various levels of filtering and the different profiles. I settled on NLMeans=Ultralight with the Film profile. That level of filtering significantly lowers the encode size but is very hard or impossible to detect in frame to frame comparisons between no-filter and filter-on encodes.

For both Kingdoms films, I raised NLMeans to Medium and that helped tremendously with the excess noise without significantly impacting film detail that I want to maintain. So, net-net I used NLMeans=Ultralight-Film for all of the encodes except for the Kingdoms eps with have Medium.

For AVC I used rf=21.50 profile=veryslow and for HEVC I used rf=22.25 profile=slow. These settings resulted in about 7-8hour encode times per episode so I did ~3x per day.

The audio was sourced from DTS-HD 5.1 and the subtitles are passthrough from the BluRay (i.e. no OCR). The subtitles note who is riffing: Jonah, Crow, or Tom.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000 s11 The Return BluRay (2017) info

Show Content

Spoiler
1920x1080 AVC x264 crf=21.5 2830Kbps-9327Kbps preset=veryslow
1920x1080 HEVC x265 crf=22.25 2054Kbps-7425Kbps preset=slow
NLMeans=Ultralight-Film except s11e10-s11e11 NLMeans=Medium-Film
5.1 Surround AC3-640kbps or AAC-384kbps with subs
source: Blu-Ray
14 episodes plus 1 documentary extra bonus (docu 2ch only with no subs)
s11 x264 - 22h02m11s 64,257,846,723bytes 59.8GB
s11 x265 - 22h02m11s 45,187,988,588bytes 42.0GB
AVC-Bytes.....HEVC-Bytes....SxxExx.(Title).BluRay.1080p.6ch.subs.avc|hevc.mkv
4,581,498,037 3,046,691,869 s11e01.Reptilicus
4,850,537,423 3,503,018,093 s11e02.Cry.Wilderness
5,034,697,963 3,242,285,056 s11e03.The.Time.Travelers
3,891,811,204 2,500,258,057 s11e04.Avalanche
4,062,795,822 3,156,007,573 s11e05.The.Beast.Of.Hollow.Mountain
3,491,104,335 2,144,751,836 s11e06.Starcrash
4,620,773,784 3,178,263,504 s11e07.The.Land.That.Time.Forgot
6,470,750,152 5,076,632,781 s11e08.The.Loves.Of.Hercules
5,563,436,417 3,703,023,841 s11e09.Yongary
4,793,483,678 3,563,087,035 s11e10.Wizards.Of.The.Lost.Kingdom
4,891,268,346 3,694,040,029 s11e11.Wizards.Of.The.Lost.Kingdom.II
2,457,720,081 1,689,907,998 s11e12.Carnival.Magic
4,337,601,898 3,082,994,928 s11e13.The.Christmas.That.Almost.Wasnt
3,466,218,770 2,274,987,812 s11e14.At.The.Earths.Core
1,744,148,813 1,332,038,176 s11e99.We.Brought.Back.MST3K.Documentary (2ch, no subs)

s11 AVC - MST3K.s11.The.Return.BluRay.1080p.6ch.AVC
s11 x264 - 22h02m11s 64,257,846,723bytes 59.8GB
detail -
https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=36222056
https://www.ettvdl.com/torrent/mystery-s...rn--944461
magnet -
s11 HEVC - MST3K.s11.The.Return.BluRay.1080p.6ch.HEVC
s11 x265 - 22h02m11s 45,187,988,588bytes 42.0GB
detail -
https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=36222063
https://www.ettvdl.com/torrent/mystery-s...rn--944462
magnet -

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Mystery Science Theater 3000 s12 The Return BluRay (2017) info

Show Content

Spoiler
1920x1080 AVC x264 crf=21.5 3787Kbps-8025Kbps preset=veryslow
1920x1080 HEVC x265 crf=22.25 2628Kbps-5281Kbps preset=slow
NLMeans=Ultralight-Film except s11e10-s11e11 NLMeans=Medium-Film
5.1 Surround AC3-640kbps or AAC-384kbps with subs
source: Blu-Ray
6 episodes
s12 x264 - 08h07m35s 24,689,697,764bytes 22.9GB
s12 x265 - 08h07m35s 16,069,425,156bytes 14.9GB
AVC-Bytes.....HEVC-Bytes....SxxExx.(Title).BluRay.1080p.6ch.subs.avc|hevc.mkv
4,188,918,335 2,649,639,162 s12e01.Mac.And.Me
2,695,651,443 1,844,515,389 s12e02.Atlantic.Rim
4,649,022,123 2,648,608,803 s12e03.Lords.Of.The.Deep
3,756,984,858 2,508,088,711 s12e04.The.Day.Time.Ended
5,307,515,355 3,477,804,323 s12e05.Killer.Fish
4,091,605,650 2,940,768,768 s12e06.Ator.The.Fighting.Eagle

s12 AVC - MST3K.s12.The.Gauntlet.BluRay.1080p.6ch.AVC
s12 x264 - 08h07m35s 24,689,697,764bytes 22.9GB
detail -
https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=36222066
https://www.ettvdl.com/torrent/mystery-s...et--944463
magnet -
s12 HEVC - MST3K.s12.The.Gauntlet.BluRay.1080p.6ch.HEVC
s12 x265 - 08h07m35s 16,069,425,156bytes 14.9GB
detail -
https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=36223470 << NEW LINK
https://www.ettvdl.com/torrent/mystery-s...et--945603 << NEW LINK
magnet - << NEW LINK

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Thanks!

PS - Big thanks to the many community members who have pointed searchers to my commentary torrents and helped out those who could only download a remaster via a temporary file locker posting. Thank you!

PPS - [standing request: anyone who can help with a - B T N - i n v i t e - please PM me, thanks!]

[DrOzymandias]

BSG, Thanks for doing this! Been looking for the Gauntlet for a while. Just an FYI, your file names are all wrong on the X265 torrent I downloaded. For example, the file name says Mac And Me but it actually is the film Killer Fish. All 6 movies appear to be mixed-up and have wrong names. The video looks great though

[Anarchemist]

Thank You!
I personally loved season 11 as much as almost any season of old MST. It felt like season 4--my personal fav season. However, for me, it was right around the 2 Wizards movies that it went downhill (IMO). And I just couldn't seem to get anything out of The Gauntlet. I wanted to, but there was no variety in the movies---everything was too recent, no older movies at all.
I rank Yongary, Cry Wilderness, Beast of Hollow Mountain, Reptilicus, Starcrash and Land That Time Forgot among my fav episodes of all time, along with Day The Earth Froze and many other "classic" eps. ...but Christmas That Almost Wasn't and a whole lot of Season 12 are among the ones I cannot sit thru again ever. Once in a while, if I watch an old b&w episode and then follow it with Lords of The Deep or Killer Fish (or Atlantic Rim) it seems much better than I remembered. S12 just needed more variety in the time/era of the movies, IMO. And Ator was honestly painful to get through. It is one case where I think Rifftrax version was probably better. (I think the live Rifftrax of Manos is actually better than the classic ep as well, and I am quite the "Joel guy")
Anyway, THANKS for the upload!!

[bsg4you]

DrOzymandias: huge, big, enormous thanks for catching the s12.hevc filename error and posting a comment on it! I was kinda bored and looking for something to do today so this issue sent me into crisis/fix mode! And thanks for the video quality compliment; both the avc and hevc episodes took 7-8hours each to encode so they should look decent. And the lowest bitrat hevc is 2054kbps for Carnival and that's not too low. That ep has weird video, like they shot it below 24fps so isn't smooth looking. But the BluRay remux has the same off video quality and the encodes do too.

Anarchemist: cool that you dig some of the new MST. I've really gotten into s12 though you're right, they're all more recent and all have a rip off theme to them. And the s11 Christmas movie took time to grow on me. The "I'm a little baby" bit felt creepy at first but now I get a kick out of each baby riff! I'm still have s11/s12 on off my systems for constant viewing so my likes/dislikes may evolve further.