Star Trek Next Generation Season 2 x264 ac3 subs-High Quality

I looked around the torrent sites and couldn't find too many high quality rips of this, one of my favorite shows. And I don't believe any include optional subtitles. So I ripped these for myself and thought some might want to share in the enjoyment. The file sizes are large (550mb) because I made them to stream to my 50-inch LCD. While the quality is high, keep in mind that the source dvd's are not the greatest. I did however do my best to clean up the picture and these look great on my 50-inch LCD. You'll notice this season is even better than season 1 due to the increase in quality of the original dvds. If you don't care about space, then these are for you. My goal was to maintain a high quality and keep the entire series under 100gb. I am working on the entire series. The ripping and subtitles are a lot of work. But if there is an interest in this torrent, I will post the other seasons as well, as they get done. Star Trek - The Next Generation (TNG) Season 2, episodes 1-22 Source: DVD Rip Average File Size: 550mb Container: MKV Video: x264 Audio: English ac3 passthrough, 5.1 channel Subtitles: English srt (in MKV) Please seed when you are done...thanks!! p.s. ATT PS3 MEDIA SERVER (which I use for these) USERS : Make sure to disable ASS/SSA Subtitles. Also if using MEncoder, if you have problems with audio sync, try unchecking AV/Sync Alternative Method.

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 AlbaGuBrath (2010-03-04)

Thanks for the torrent, i only d/led one episode to give it ago and i was impressed enough with the video, but the sound not so much, its clear dont get me wrong but not loud enough!! thank you though and keep up the good work!!

 AlbaGuBrath (2010-03-04)

oh and just too add, good call with the addition of subtitles, i personally dont need them but im sure there are plenty of others grateful for your efforts :)

 meech (2010-03-05)

Glad you liked the quality. As far as the sound. Not sure why it wouldn't be loud enough. They seem to be just as loud on my p.c. and surround sound system as any other video that I've played. The sound is 5.1 AC3 pass-through, which if I recall is pretty much the same audio feed that's on the dvd. The audio isn't re-encoded and therefore should be the same quality as the dvd. Sorry that you are having problems with it. Hope that it's just a setting in your player, maybe.

 meech (2010-08-03)

Eduardo77:
There's not much I can do about the speed. When I originally seed a torrent, I usually do it at around 250-300 kbps (the max my connection can handle). Once it is totally seeded and there are enough seeders to keep it alive, I stop seeding the torrent and upload the next one. I like to do just one at a time, that way it maximizes the time it takes for new torrents to become "self-sufficient". After that however, the speed is entirely up to the people that are uploading and downloading/uploading...seeds and peers. Some people just don't have enough bandwidth to upload at a fast rate, while others throttle their speed, limiting how fast they upload (usually for no good reason except selfishness). The second scenario hurts the whole concept of torrenting...it's a character trait - called greed. In any event, the short answer to your question is...i don't know. Speed is entirely up to you and the other people who are/have downloading this. I'm sure the speed will fluctuate (hopefully upwards) as new people jump in and old people jump out.

Danbouges (2010-08-14)

Your effort has provided me extreme joy!! I wish i had something to offer you. All i have is TNG all seasons, and there is no reason for me to put out a torrent because you have dominated it. Seasons in 5.1 are so rare!! Maybe i'm missing something, but I've never been able to find any season of any show in 5.1 except for the ones you put out. I've watched countless seasons in 350mb asscrap stereo and longed for a quality experience, especially in the sound department. Guys, please dedicate the extra space and get this. much nicer experience than 150-350mb files. If you can't notice a difference between 640x352 and 720x480, and 2.0 shit and 5.1 ac3, maybe endless re-runs of reality shows would be more up your alley. If you watch more than 2-3 episodes a week, you really need to get equipment/hard Drive space capable of storing/playing these files!! People actually take dvd files and LOWER the sound and LOWER the video, just to make the files SMALLER!!!!! It's harder to understand than the most advanced scientific principles. WHY!!! Why the hell would you LOWER the quality of an exsisting video/audio stream? "O my god i just can't take a 14gb season, i just have to have a 2-7 Gb season." what the hell??? Thanks for being the ONLY guy that keeps the majority that wants decent files in mind. You sir, are great. Any audio/video problems you are experiencing are the fault of your user settings/software/ or computer. The audio/video from this guys files is better than the DVD. If the audio or video isn't loud or good enough, that's because paramount or whoever handles that part of the dvd production made it that way. I seed your stuff up for however many days it takes me to download which is usually a week or two for whatever given torrent. Thank you so much you bad ass philanthropic scholar. I to have a nice 62' inch tv and surround system, and I love to play Episodes with Tv out!! keep it coming bro!! I Would love stargate atlantis personally, I can't find the bluray rips you mentioned on another torrent.

moldybudz (2010-09-09)

Thanks for these. Great video quality and its nice to have a real 5.1 audio track on these. I'm a huge audiophile when it comes to my tv shows and movies so this fits my collection perfectly.
I use a SPDIF out from my media server into my receiver and it decodes the AC3 5.1 as Dolby Digital 5.1 flawlessly. Sounds perfect and really adds depth to the episodes, especially the musical score and any battle scenes.
This is most likely the issue others have had with it not sounding good. On 2.0 or 2.1 speakers just pumping out Stereo sound, you won't hear the audio the way it is meant to be heard.

cocoverde99 (2010-11-24)

spanish subtitles
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5979957

sweetmusicman (2012-08-03)

Thank you. Awesome upload!

Skram0 (2013-01-08)

Here's a comparison I did with some VLC snapshots between these encodes (549MB) and some new ones of the recently released Blu-rays (2.18GB).

porzal (2013-03-12)

most of subtitles from these videos are cut off on end of video about 5-10 mins early

mikedongs (2013-06-04)

Danbouges: oh shut the fuck up. if you demand flawless, go buy the blu-ray. don't bitch and moan about the quality of FREE downloads.

eiwru (2013-09-24)

Thnxx for all seasons!!!

 meech (2013-12-09)

I've redone all of my Star Trek Next Generation rips. These rips (this torrent and the other seasons) was my very first go at encoding. They turned out pretty well, but I've learned a little bit since then. Since this is one of my top 3 favorite shows, I decided to spend the time and do them again...this time even better.
Two things that I did differently:
1. I used 18.5 crf encoding this time. This ensures that no episode is too large and no episode is too small. See a small explanation at the bottom of the new torrent's description.
2. With these first torrents, I added a weak denoiser filter which smoothed things out, getting rid of some of the sharper grain in the process. Grain/sharper details = good.
The quality on the new torrents is a notch better than these due to the aforementioned points. Plus they are smaller due to the crf encoding. . The new size is 80.4gb compared to the older 95gb+ series. Once again, the quality is at least the same (in my opinion better) than this torrent.
My hope is to phase out these earlier torrents and just have the new one (I combined all seasons into one torrent).
So please download this instead:

Thanks and enjoy one of my favorite shows of all time!