Thread 42634555

Amazon Prime Video continuation thread: >>42578160

This thread was created to further the discussion of the highest fidelity release of MLP on Amazon Prime Video. I wanted to widen the topic from Amazon Prime Video ripping to ripping all other sorts of pony media. Thus, this thread is meant as a central place for sharing and archiving pony media in the highest possible quality with a focus on official pony media - but talking about fandom content is also welcome. If you want to find something MLP-related, ask in the thread for smarter Anons to spoonfeed you.
Also, Hasbro recently released tons of new DJ Pon-3 albums, which have yet to be ripped losslessly as Yayponies has not yet provided them. Though, most of them except the very recent ones are found lossy in the Ultimate Soundtrack Collection.
In the previous thread, an Anon that was formerly affiliated with Hasbro has shown interest to sharing his stuff with us, so I wanted to continue the thread for that purpose as well, if he does decide to shower us with leaks:
>>42607084
>>42608296
>>42608325

>Most recent torrent of Seasons 1 to 9 of MLP: FIM in AVC encoding:
https://u.pone.rs/kxwmtjrb.torrent
>Best Gift Ever:
https://u.pone.rs/idwrcrpi.torrent
>Rainbow Roadtrip:
https://u.pone.rs/pvtbkkfb.torrent
SNEED!

>Archival sites and hosts for official pony animated media:
https://u.pone.rs/wrobtset.txt

>Archival sites and hosts for official pony soundtrack, music, books, comics, mangas etc:
https://u.pone.rs/tiaxrazb.txt

>Other links (like data ressources as well as fandom and foreign dub stuff):
https://u.pone.rs/iylbmvya.txt

>Where can I generally find archived pony fandom stuff
https://www.theponyarchive.com/
https://warp.theponyarchive.com/ (TPA file search)
https://hobune.stream/tpa-h/channels/ (User-friendly TPA frontend)

Last Pony Archival Thread from 2023:
>>40557552

>>42634555 (OP)
>SNEED!
I uploaded like half a TB already!

>>42634572
Be better.

>>42634594
You mean do better.

Why don't you encode it in HEVC or better yet AV1?

Holy shit all nine seasons in super high quality? Nice.

>>42634968
This thread is for qualityfags. You have the rest of pleb internet filled with compressed blurry blocky shit if you want that.

>>42635021
You're the sort of folk to download 128kbps MP3 disguised as FLAC

>>42634968
There is an HEVC torrent, but wouldn't recommend it because so much is wrong with it: https://u.pone.rs/vzabgkxc.torrent
Somebody made comparisons, it is slightly better:
https://slow.pics/c/EXSvNtR1
https://slow.pics/c/MCvmIAnw
https://slow.pics/c/po3tqDlq

>>42635029
No, that's me.

>>42635049
With "it", I meant AVC of course.

>>42634966
BEE better!

>>42634968
>AV1
May as well just stick with YouTube rips.

>>42635126
What's wrong with AV1?

>>42634555 (OP)
Which audio tracks are available in prime video for MLP:FiM?

So, is there any problems with the last release?

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>>42635513
Nothing?

>>42635513
Not inherently it seems.
Some metadata stuff like cover images and year of releases are messed up.
The Last Roundup is of course the censored version and it uses the version of A Dog and Pony Show where Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are missing from the scene where they recover from the fall into the cave system.

>>42636344
Maybe it would worth the effort to make a proper release like the ones at YP, with all of these small issues ironed out.

>>42637024
More?

Will be sneeding /)

I now finally have the episode project files.
I have been adapting the tools from that previous dude's 4K render attempt.

So far I have rendered all of the frames from Testing Testing 1, 2, 3

I have hit a raodblock, apparently the retards at DHX used like 3 different versions of Adobe After Affects. So i will need to hunt down something more recent than what I have.

Looks like 13.2 or higher.
It is morally wrong to pay Adobe for literally anything so it may take some time to actually secure a safe working copy of the programs to compile the project and render it as video.

Not giving up though.
Have a 4K natively rendered Twilight.

>>42638856
Doesn't haxnode have a recent copy on 1337x?

>>42638867
I literally haven't even looked at all.
I'm currently using CS6 which is like 20 years old at this point.
I just finished the renders today and intended to pick it back up tomorrow.

I will probably just throw a recent version of Creative Cloud in a VM and block it's network access.
Even if it has internet AIDS it should be fine, not like it will ruin the video or anything, Hopefully. I do keep backups and snapshots so it should be fine.

>>42638856
You've got me excited, Anon!

Based thread.

>>42638856
Wait BigHckintosh didn't leak that episode, where is it from?

>>42639398
Yes he did, the links to the leaks are in the OP under the 'other links' section.

>>42638856
Keep us informed of your progress, this is a great undertaking!

>>42638856
I got 16 if you want: https://u.pone.rs/sanmuwdz.torrent
Else here is 2025: https://u.pone.rs/mcabdbgg.torrent

I'd be interested in helping you out, anon. I don't know AE, but I have computing available if you need to offload renders.

>>42638856
from fmhy:
aHR0cHM6Ly9yZW50cnkuY28vZmVlbGluZ2N1dGVtaWdodGRlbGV0ZWxhdGVy

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I tried to make an uncensored Amazon Prime Video version of the Last Roundup. Don't know if it's good, or if it's bad, shit, and lazy. It uses the Yayponies 1080p iTunes US release. It cuts to that at 01:48:22 and cuts back to Amazon Prime Video at 03:17:13. Due to volume differences, it uses the audio of the iTunes release for the whole episode synched up to the video stream of Amazon Prime Video.
https://mega.nz/folder/j4QgQKzT#pfr064UKbkaDcJElyDbphg

>>42640433
>Yayponies 1080p iTunes US release
That's just censored version with blurry original eyes from 720p pasted on top of it

>>42640473
Oh wow, really? 720p of what?

>>42640473
I can probably cut and concat the episodes properly if there are 1080p sources available for both. Depends on a few factors, but it may be doable without re-encoding.

I haven't looked to see.
Is there a good 1080p version of TLR uncensored anywhere? I know one of my DVDs has it, but its not 1080p.

>>42639713
>>42639714
I actually have assloads of compute, more than I can really use. The real time killer is just correcting the project files, fixing effects and layers that won't upscale properly and then just organizing it together into an actual video, it takes a long time.

Part of the VHS effect on Pinkie's rap for example uses an effected generated by someone, at DHX assumedly, taking some low quality shitty scan of who knows what junk they found in the office trash can, then they stretched that layer to kingdom come across the composition to make it look like distorted and low quality analogue. Simply scaling it to 4K renders it to be like 50,000 pixels, which is bigger than After Effects will even tolerate, so that has to be adjusted.

There will be lots of little things like that, so this probably won't be fast, but I will do everything I can to do what episodes are possible.

Also, those links will probably help, thanks. I don't know what version will be required just "CC 2014 and up" is what is documented, so who knows.

Have some 4K adult CMC.

>>42640489
Of iTunes. During the episode premiere iTunes only provided 720p max. They started selling 1080p only in late 2012. Which is retarded, the Hub rip should be proper 1080p, why didn't they use it for patching is beyond me.

>>42640750
The TV rip could have been even worse honestly.
It depends on how they captured it, if it was scanned poorly it could look worse than properly upscaled 720p.

Many such cases.

>>42640785
There is malice in that grin

>>42634572
I don't get why people have such a problem with seeding. When I'm not using the internet any network capacity that goes unused is wasted. I just let torrents run in the background and if I really need to download something big quickly (rarely) I just pause them.

>>42640747
I have a rip of the German dub that is uncensored and 1080p from xxnightmaremoonxx, but it looks pretty inconsistent and the smaller the details the more noticable blurry it looks.

>>42641942
Looks like it got fucked with deinterlace. If the German BluRay is the same, that can be used for patching the eyes. But don't fucking deinterlace it you fucking retards. The video might have the interlace flag but it doesn't mean it's actually present there. Use your own brain and eyes, don't allow the software decide for you. So many tech illiterate faggots keep making this mistake.

>>42641487
Dorp

>>42640433
Did the same for A Dog and Pony Show and restored the scene with Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. It uses the Yayponies 1080p iTunes AU release. It cuts to its video stream at 12:32:22 and cuts back to Amazon Prime Video at 12:48:09. The whole episode uses the audio of the Amazon Prime Video release.
It's located in the same link.

>>42640750
>>42640785
They worked with what the had at the time.
We have AI these days so it shouldn't be difficult to upscale the original 720p file with the proper tools.

>>42642381
There's no need to. We have leaked flash assets for the entire episode. It's possible to render 8K uncensored Dorp.

>>42642420
R u sure about that?

>>42642420
>>42642427
>We have leaked flash assets for the entire episode
The earliest episode I see any assets for is Testing Testing 1, 2, 3

>>42642427
Just move the eyes by yourself n shiet

>>42642429
There certainly are also for The Last Roundup (because I have them on my hard drive). One of the leak links in the OP should certainly have them. I think probably in part 1 of the 2019 leaks.
>>42642430
We need Twital for this!!

>>42635126
AV1 isn't that bad

>>42642441
>>42642420
The flash scene is the censored one.

>>42641514
Idk, I imagine a lot are also torrenting shit an ISP actually cares about and use a VPN and probably don't want to use that all the time

>>42635126
>complaining about AV1
Having actually experimented with it, you must be doing something horribly wrong.

>>42634968
>>42635157
>>42642515
>>42643241
You're free to make your own encodings if that format suits you better.

sneeding the series soon

>>42644134
literally me

>>42644503
Great file management horse. You won't have any duplicates in your datasets if she's taking care of them!
Also, so cute.

>>42640433
>>42642324
will check later
thanks!

A break for the anni, or a good time to get anons in the mood to scour their HDDs found at garage sales for Hasbro confidential pony butt draws?

So, some news.
I managed to find a newer working copy of Adobe CC that, as of yet, has not completely raped the VM I am working in to death, so that is good.
Putting together the video is tedious, and the lack of hardware acceleration sucks, but so far so good. Hopefully there are no problems getting the episodes together, some bullshit could always come up in later scenes. I've found a few minor things so far already, but they were easily fixable.

This thread will probably die long before I am done, but I will be around, once the final product is rendered I may post a thread if there isn't one.
Just to show how it looks, I spit this out of AE, this is the progress so far.
https://files.catbox.moe/v0cx8l.mp4
It synced up nicely with the Amazon audio.

Also, have the 4K version of the Twilight checklist meme.

>>42650320
Nice!
>Lack of hw accel
No real way around that short of getting a proxmox VM with GPU passthrough up, sadly. I am not sure if VMware's guest additions would do the trick for rendering acceleration, but it will work for general desktop stuff.

>>42650320
Nice work! Hope it will work out all fine

>>42650320
This is crisp!

>>42635157
This comes from an episode weighting 100mb, encoded with Av1 on low setting using an intel arc a380.
if the thread is interested, i can lend my GPU to encode stuff in AV1
i am using StaxRIP

having a bitrate this high for the audio track is pure ISHYGDDT

>>42640433
https://u.pone.rs/rcxisfvv.mkv
a little higher on the settings, but have a sample of AV1 video and Opus audio

>>42651337
Not everyone is deaf/poorfag with shitty chink speakers.

Most FLA files older than season 7 has suddenly stopped being able to load completely or at all for me since last December. Does anybody know why this happens, and how to fix it? I suspect that it was caused by an update to Adobe animate, and that I have to pirate an older version.

>>42651952
Version issue probably, try downloading a version of Flash that was around when the older seasons were made.

>>42652063
How do I do that? I'm not tech savvy or experienced with downloading things.

I'm still curious to know what exactly is wrong with those particular symbols for them to not load. The Top Bolt files take several minutes to try and load.

>>42652214
try thepiratebay or 1337x for older versions, before it became "Adobe Animate" it was "Adobe Flash"

>>42652063
Didn't they use Adobe Flash 7 or 8 and a paid puppet addon for Flash? Would anyone have that so you could have the same tools as the real animators did for MLP:FIM?

>>42652276
Flash 7 or 8 should be easy to come by, no idea what the puppet addon for flash was though.

>>42651952
>Does anybody know why this happens, and how to fix it?
Could be a file format change, supporting legacy versions until this update.

>>42652276
After as surprising deep dive, I've come to report that nobody has done much research into this. Doesn't seem like it's every been publicly stated what addons were used, but James "Wootie" Wootton did say that he modified the extensions for use in the show. So even if you did gather everything together, it still might not work.

Your best bet at this point to stalk the social media profiles of the animators and ask what they remember.
This is a list of plugins from recently no idea how many of them are legacy.
https://www.stickpage.cc/forum/tutorials/5092-list-of-flash-tools-and-extensions

>>42652214
In general, old Adobe software could be obtained by downloading trials directly from their site, then patching amtlib.dll if you needed to bypass the trial period. There was a "universal Adobe patcher" by PainteR with very nice chiptune for the latter.
Since you're working in a VM, I suppose you don't really need to crack the software, just recreate the VM/restore from snapshot or copy when the trial expires.
>https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite.html
>If you have registered or purchased your Creative Suite app from Adobe, you may be able to download it from your account.
right, so that has changed
>You can no longer reinstall Creative Suite 2, 3, or 4, even if you have the original installation disks. The aging activation servers for those apps had to be retired.
>aging activation servers
>even if you have the original installation disks.
you dense motherfuckers

>>42653134
I know for a fact that you can still install CS6 and activate the trial as long as you are offline, then you can just swap to the modified amtlib.dll and it works fine.

Most of the flash assets I've tried will open in Flash Pro CS6.

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>>42643680
I lack a gpu with AV1 encoding, very sad

>>42653134
>>42653345
Just grab it from Rutracker

>>42656664
A copy probbaly exists on archive.org

>>42651527
you clearly have no idea what you are saying

>>42634555 (OP)
Question: Why is the total size of the AVC encoded Amazon rip smaller than the YP iTunes rip? The total size of the YP files is 193 GB, and the AVC version (which is supposedly the highest quality available) totals at 163.15 GB.

>>42657613
15+ years of codec development.
AVC is much more efficient than h264. Smaller filesize yet better quality.

>>42657637
Thanks. I was hoping that was case.
Also, the autism of this board never ceases to amaze me. Every month or so I check in, only to see some new autistic project being started, or something new that an anon found. It’s beautiful.

>>42657613
>AVC is much more efficient than h264
AVC is literally another name of h264?
Tho both AVC/h264 standard and the actual encoders do evolve over time, I will give you that.

>>42657613
Encoding is not my autism, but I know that you can achieve different results by simply fiddling with encoding settings: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264
For example you can switch from "medium" to "slower" speed preset so that encoding speed will be slower and your PC would need to use more CPU power to decode, but the file will be smaller.

Plus you can get different results by using different version of the actual encoder, even if it uses the same version of the h264 standard (but it can also use newer version of h264 standard).

Plus there are different implementations of the h.264 encoder. Because h.264 is just a standard and anyone can make a h.264 encoder, there is plenty of different h.264 encoders from different organizations, all of different quality. You would get different size/quality ratio if you switch from hardware Intel CPU's encoder to VideoLAN encoder, even when both of those use the same version of underlying standard.

Im not autistic-enough about this to know which factor is more important for our case.

>>42657613
You sure you only have one copy of each episode from iTunes? YP did many alternative encodes to fix iTunes issues.

>>42657817
>AVC is h264
I mistook AVC for AV1.
Then there is only the 15 years of codec development. Plus probably better encoding settings.

>>42657613
Better compression, I suppose. Also, YP includes 2.0 and 5.1 audio so that adds to the filesize.

>>42657842
Yeah I've only got one copy of each episode. Best Gift Ever and Rainbow Roadtrip are mixed in there but that's probably only, like, 3 GB.

>>42657940
Is everything source raw rips? YP also did some Color Correcter Remastered bullshit which may have non standard sizes and should be erased from existence.

>>42657947
It's the iTunes Raws

>>42657947
>Color Correcter Remastered bullshit
For a reason. S01 US iTunes is desaturated plus cropped.

Also check the "release notes". Many episodes got re-releases because of errors.

>>42658025
>For a reason. S01 US iTunes is desaturated plus cropped.
That got replaced with Australian raws so bothering with shitty US release became pointless. Yet they kept doing this retardation.

>>42658031
>got replaced with Australian raws
That has other issues. Like the title screen at the beginning offsetting everything.

SNEED

>>42660319
Currently sneeding

>>42660319
Also sneeding

>>42660319
are you sneeding?

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>>42634555 (OP)
How do you save websites?

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thneeding

Sneeding as well.
How goes the episode recompile? Its a bit beyond my rusty technical skills, but I find it to a be an incredibly interesting idea.

The ride never ends and all that.

>>42673855
>naming your theedboxtheth after the motht thenthathional pegathuth
Thuberb tathte, anon.

>>42674207
It's still happening, albeit slowly.
I have a 9 to 5, so I work on it when I can.

I have hit a speedbump, the intro may not be available to render in native 4K. It looks like the previous attempt, the guy used waifu2x to upscale the intro, which may need to be done again. We'll see, it's just the intro so it's not really the end of the world.

Even so, I am doing this for my personal benefit above all else, I want 4K ponies.
So you can expect it to get done eventually.

>>42677159
I'm fascinated too by this project (and the previous one too).
Say, what is the max size you can render a frame to?
Could you, for shit and giggles, render a single frame at 8k?

>>42677690
Probably, but there isn't a whole lot more fidelity to be had above 4K.

It would depend heavily on the frame if you just wanted one, different frames are rendered in different programs and you basically have to render a whole scene to get the frame in question.

Did you have one in mind?

>>42677159
I’m really glad you’re doing this, Anon. I’ve been playing with the idea of remastering the episodes to 4K from scratch by tracing over the existing footage in Flash or something and re-creating all the assets. But I abandoned that quest when I realised just how much of the show uses raster graphics and effects that would be really dang hard to re-create without the source files. I think I’ll just trace little animation loops that I find cute (if I ever manage to get myself to learn how to do pony vectors).

>>42634555 (OP)
The Amazon rip seems to be more desaturated than the Yayponies iTunes rip.

>>42680461
itunes s1 color issues all again

>>42680461
iTunes originally had the same issue here.

>>42681037
So Anon should compare a different episode that isn't one of those?

bump.avi

>>42674207
Mom and Twily

bump.swf

>>42684211
You want the deep dive?
Behold Bonniecorn, aka Bonnie Zacherle, the creator of My Little Pony.
So Grandma, Mom, and Twily!

>>42662501
Look at her go!

>>42685186
beautiful

>>42685186
This is lovely. Generations of pone, brought upon people who cherished the pone. Thanks for posting this picture, anon.

>>42685921
>>42687581
You're welcome!

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>>42634555 (OP)
Do the torrents still work?

Boop

>>42693152
Why wouldn't they?

a ton of slidethread spam, bump

>>42681037
>RAW US
>isn't actually raw
YayBluey strikes again.

Bump.

It would be neat if someone made a color corrected version of the 130 GB movie file.

This is NOT (just) a bump, it's also a plea for help: what's the current best version of the MLP Movie to get?

Is there any chance to get subtitle files for the AVC episodes?

Are the leaked 320kbps stereo MP3s better than the AC3 iTunes/Amazon show rips for music audio? They aren't in surround, but most of the fan OSTs are also stereo only.

>4K native renders
I thought some anon already talked about how they did that and what problems they ran into. Most of the aftereffects were recreated by hand I think. Some were outright missing and not recreated. Try searching the archives or asking RomeSilvanus. I remember there being 5 or so full releases, with another 5 attempted.
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/

>Loyaldk's 4K ESRGAN upscales
Yayponies readme:
>This release has been upscaled using ESRGAN by Loyaldk aka ChaseMMD.
>Should there's any issue with the video, please contact ChaseMMD#6957 at Discord.
https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN

Was it trained on native MLP assets or is this just a generic upscale? Native flash assets (MLP or not) should provide better results.

>Neither here nor there
Derpibooru comments don't seem to be archived anywhere. Sometimes people would post long stories straight to comments.

Source URLs for many many Booru posts are dead. Tumblr and Deviantart are graveyards.

Promos off the top of my head

>Hub: There's a Pony for That
>Mane 6 dancing in Colts uniforms for the Super Bowl
>Season 2 teaser promo

Several leaked episodes and songs.

>Winter Wrap Up
>Smile song

>>42698252
Yeah the amount of deleted tumblrs, deviantart accounts, and fimfiction accounts is sad and weird. Never understood why someone would erase their own work like that, even if it wasn't the best.

>>42698501
Tumblr for sure, and DA maybe, purges old accounts and posts as they change their adult content policy every day.