Oct 11, 2018, 16:36 pm
TL;DR
* 128 Rifftrax dates-names-hashes are listed at the post bottom below bsg4you-masters bsg4you-seeded
* please consider using these p2p torrent hashes to download bsg4you shares instead of file locker links
* this list does not include MST3K, Film Crew, and Cinematic Titanic shares or other non-riffed shares - just bsg4you Rifftrax
For forum readers who don't know me, here's a quick bio. I'm an old school mistie so when Roadhouse appeared I started doing the DVD synchs using a recipe from the Rifftrax forums. Then I started downloading other people's synchs.
As time went on, I wanted two things:
* HD video, done at least fairly well - the Star Wars pre-quels drove this
* riff audio mixed with the movie audio at about the same volume level
Many syncs at the time were ~700MB avi (aka x263) 480p and the rifftrax audio was often very loud to my ears. The riff mp3 was probably being muxed with the movie audio without any ducking. That's ok for a super loud action scene but not so good for a quiet part of the movie. So I re-started doing syncs aka remasters using 2100-2300Kbps x264/AVC video and using Audacity with Auto Ducking (it automatically makes the movie quieter during a riff). Eventually, I discovered 2x Audacity plug ins that did fine tuned custom compression - one of the movie and another specially for spoken word audio. I tuned my recipe steps and called it "v2" since I had to redo lots of older v1 syncs I had done.
Time has marched on and Rifftrax mostly does live shows, VODs, and shorts now. It makes sense since a 3.99 mp3 is just as labor intensive (using more so since mp3s are longer than VODs) and gross $6-8 less per sale. Even if a VOD is not in the public domain, the per download license fee is likely ~$1 and probably not more than $2 so the business math again for mp3 just the jokes is poor.
But lucky for Just the Jokes fans like me, Rifftrax LLC does a few mp3s per year. They were doing like 1/year for a bit and that was painful. But now we get at least a few per year which is nice. I haven't done some recent mp3s (Got, TWD, ...) but for the ones I've done, I get a BluRay source and do my own encode now. Sometimes I do both a x264/AVC and a x265/HEVC though I've dropped back to just AVC. Maybe I'll start up dual releasing again - the x265s are popular.
So why would anyone choose a bsg4you remaster?
* rifftrax audio is not loud but should be clear in the whole movie
* the movie audio is "ducked" meaning it gets quieter when there's a riff
* video should always look good, from the old judas or anoxmous encodes or my newer BluRay encodes
* english subs are included if they exist
* 5.1 and 2.0 movie only tracks are included, with no processing
* the rifftrax intro is at the end of every remaster
* special tweaks have been done when possible (SWHS, ST New Voyages, Birdemic, etc)
Some folks are unhappy with ducking but most people are seem ok with the final audio product. I worked for many hours on how to compress the movie audio, compress the rifftrax audio, and duck the movie during the riffs. Doing less ducking would make the movie too loud or require the riff audio to be louder in quiet parts of the movie. v2 has worked out pretty well I think.
I've also heard comments about putting the Rifftrax intro at the start of the remaster. The problem with this is some shows/movies do not have enough space before the first riff for the intro to fit. Since I want to do every remster the same, I decided early on to do the intro tacked on 1sec after the last riffer's word. There are a few rifftrax that do not have enough time at the end for the intro so what happens is the mkv will appear just black while the intro audio finishes.
About sharing locations, The Pirate Bay was my first home for (surprise!) Battlestar Galactica shares of fanedits and other interesting BSG stuff. While I kept posting to TPB, I also started up at Kickass Torrents aka KAT which had a thriving forum. After KAT kicked the bucket, I was foruming back at Suprbay. Recently, I had almost just finished mirroring all my torrents at Demonoid when it went belly up again! Hopefully, it'll come back because TPB is not always easily accessible.
How to get a bsg4you share?
Is it a Rifftrax MP3 Commentary aka Just the Jokes featuring any of these riffers: Mike, Kevin, Bill, Mary Jo, and/or Bridget?
If yes, click the Show button below bsg4you-masters bsg4you-seeded then...
* do control-f to find on the webpage for the title you want
* copy just the hash for your title (take care not to copy the leading or trailing tabs)
* paste the hash in a torrent program to download, like qBittorrent
* you might have to format the link like this:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:[Share Hash]
"But clicking on a M E G A link or a G O O G L E D R I V E link is so much easier and faster. Why don't you do that instead of p2p torrents."
Sharing is always caring, but my shares have been renamed and posted to file lockers which weakens the p2p sharing. Every file locker download of my shares means the swarm of users seeding and downloading is smaller which slows the speed of sharing for the swarm. And unlike the file lockers, TPB and DHT/PEX magnets do not get taken down. Files do sometimes get taken down from file lockers (including both of the above) plus at most p2p sites *except* TPB. With these hashes, the shares are eternal! Or, as close to eternal as possible right now.
So please, use these magnets and not file lockers for my shares if possible.
These 3x Rifftrax were done by other folks and still might be shared via the listed hashes.
not-bsg4you-masters not-bsg4you-seeded
I will never do these 5x Rifftrax and, at this point, it is very unlikely that I'll ever even do the W I Z. I spaced the names so searches on these titles won't hit this post.
there will be no bsg4you release - unknown hashes or file locker links
To search the big list below, click Show to expand the list then control-f to do a find on the web page for the title of interest. Take care not to copy the leading or trailing tabs around the hash value.
The Fifth Element below was excellently remastered by an anonymous community member who approved of my sharing it way back when.
All other 127 Rifftrax below are bsg4you v2 remasters and are being actively seeded.
bsg4you-masters bsg4you-seeded
* 128 Rifftrax dates-names-hashes are listed at the post bottom below bsg4you-masters bsg4you-seeded
* please consider using these p2p torrent hashes to download bsg4you shares instead of file locker links
* this list does not include MST3K, Film Crew, and Cinematic Titanic shares or other non-riffed shares - just bsg4you Rifftrax
For forum readers who don't know me, here's a quick bio. I'm an old school mistie so when Roadhouse appeared I started doing the DVD synchs using a recipe from the Rifftrax forums. Then I started downloading other people's synchs.
As time went on, I wanted two things:
* HD video, done at least fairly well - the Star Wars pre-quels drove this
* riff audio mixed with the movie audio at about the same volume level
Many syncs at the time were ~700MB avi (aka x263) 480p and the rifftrax audio was often very loud to my ears. The riff mp3 was probably being muxed with the movie audio without any ducking. That's ok for a super loud action scene but not so good for a quiet part of the movie. So I re-started doing syncs aka remasters using 2100-2300Kbps x264/AVC video and using Audacity with Auto Ducking (it automatically makes the movie quieter during a riff). Eventually, I discovered 2x Audacity plug ins that did fine tuned custom compression - one of the movie and another specially for spoken word audio. I tuned my recipe steps and called it "v2" since I had to redo lots of older v1 syncs I had done.
Time has marched on and Rifftrax mostly does live shows, VODs, and shorts now. It makes sense since a 3.99 mp3 is just as labor intensive (using more so since mp3s are longer than VODs) and gross $6-8 less per sale. Even if a VOD is not in the public domain, the per download license fee is likely ~$1 and probably not more than $2 so the business math again for mp3 just the jokes is poor.
But lucky for Just the Jokes fans like me, Rifftrax LLC does a few mp3s per year. They were doing like 1/year for a bit and that was painful. But now we get at least a few per year which is nice. I haven't done some recent mp3s (Got, TWD, ...) but for the ones I've done, I get a BluRay source and do my own encode now. Sometimes I do both a x264/AVC and a x265/HEVC though I've dropped back to just AVC. Maybe I'll start up dual releasing again - the x265s are popular.
So why would anyone choose a bsg4you remaster?
* rifftrax audio is not loud but should be clear in the whole movie
* the movie audio is "ducked" meaning it gets quieter when there's a riff
* video should always look good, from the old judas or anoxmous encodes or my newer BluRay encodes
* english subs are included if they exist
* 5.1 and 2.0 movie only tracks are included, with no processing
* the rifftrax intro is at the end of every remaster
* special tweaks have been done when possible (SWHS, ST New Voyages, Birdemic, etc)
Some folks are unhappy with ducking but most people are seem ok with the final audio product. I worked for many hours on how to compress the movie audio, compress the rifftrax audio, and duck the movie during the riffs. Doing less ducking would make the movie too loud or require the riff audio to be louder in quiet parts of the movie. v2 has worked out pretty well I think.
I've also heard comments about putting the Rifftrax intro at the start of the remaster. The problem with this is some shows/movies do not have enough space before the first riff for the intro to fit. Since I want to do every remster the same, I decided early on to do the intro tacked on 1sec after the last riffer's word. There are a few rifftrax that do not have enough time at the end for the intro so what happens is the mkv will appear just black while the intro audio finishes.
About sharing locations, The Pirate Bay was my first home for (surprise!) Battlestar Galactica shares of fanedits and other interesting BSG stuff. While I kept posting to TPB, I also started up at Kickass Torrents aka KAT which had a thriving forum. After KAT kicked the bucket, I was foruming back at Suprbay. Recently, I had almost just finished mirroring all my torrents at Demonoid when it went belly up again! Hopefully, it'll come back because TPB is not always easily accessible.
How to get a bsg4you share?
Is it a Rifftrax MP3 Commentary aka Just the Jokes featuring any of these riffers: Mike, Kevin, Bill, Mary Jo, and/or Bridget?
If yes, click the Show button below bsg4you-masters bsg4you-seeded then...
* do control-f to find on the webpage for the title you want
* copy just the hash for your title (take care not to copy the leading or trailing tabs)
* paste the hash in a torrent program to download, like qBittorrent
* you might have to format the link like this:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:[Share Hash]
"But clicking on a M E G A link or a G O O G L E D R I V E link is so much easier and faster. Why don't you do that instead of p2p torrents."
Sharing is always caring, but my shares have been renamed and posted to file lockers which weakens the p2p sharing. Every file locker download of my shares means the swarm of users seeding and downloading is smaller which slows the speed of sharing for the swarm. And unlike the file lockers, TPB and DHT/PEX magnets do not get taken down. Files do sometimes get taken down from file lockers (including both of the above) plus at most p2p sites *except* TPB. With these hashes, the shares are eternal! Or, as close to eternal as possible right now.
So please, use these magnets and not file lockers for my shares if possible.
These 3x Rifftrax were done by other folks and still might be shared via the listed hashes.
not-bsg4you-masters not-bsg4you-seeded
I will never do these 5x Rifftrax and, at this point, it is very unlikely that I'll ever even do the W I Z. I spaced the names so searches on these titles won't hit this post.
there will be no bsg4you release - unknown hashes or file locker links
To search the big list below, click Show to expand the list then control-f to do a find on the web page for the title of interest. Take care not to copy the leading or trailing tabs around the hash value.
The Fifth Element below was excellently remastered by an anonymous community member who approved of my sharing it way back when.
All other 127 Rifftrax below are bsg4you v2 remasters and are being actively seeded.
bsg4you-masters bsg4you-seeded
