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28/03/2019 06:15 — ElCid

Is go4up messing with MKVs? I noticed bad CRC, and the file was reprocessed by mkvmerge 7.3 (original file was made by 31.0). Maybe they are doing something sneaky like inserting ads (though I couldn't find anything in the file I looked at)?

Anyway I suggest wrapping the MKVs in ZIPs or whatever if go4up is screwing with us...

28/03/2019 07:26 — Anonymous

In the past go4up inserted an extra bit, maybe for internal id purposes. I don't think we ever found out why.

If you want admin to check on it, it's best to leave a specific example.

28/03/2019 18:14 — BetaMAX

#Even a Pawn can take down a King#

Confirmed. Unusable for now.

28/03/2019 18:44 — Anonymous

What makes it unusable? It's been messing with CRC for a long time and no problems reported with using their files.

And there's not much point worrying about media files, unlike exe.

28/03/2019 19:03 — BetaMAX

#Even a Pawn can take down a King#

Well, should be obvious, but just for you:
If you don't care about data integrity, it might still be usable.
Adding some bytes at end of file, that can be removed to perfectly restore the file, is totally different from current behavior.

28/03/2019 19:11 — Anonymous

So you're just worried about a blip or failure in playback. A blip in playback is nothing. To most of us, dangerous is what makes something unusable. And media files are not dangerous.

Since there have been no complains here about files that have blips or don't play from go4up or anywhere else, your concerns are clearly without basis or merit.

That should be obvious, even to you.

28/03/2019 19:48 — BetaMAX

#Even a Pawn can take down a King#

I care about files integrity, nothing more nothing less. No need for speculation.
It's probably not related here, but "And media files are not dangerous." LOL
Ever looked into the commits in ffmpeg git? Silly question, I know.?

28/03/2019 21:01 — Anonymous

Can you cite a modern example of an actual infection/Trojan problem in the field with an mkv?  Silly question for you.  There would be headlines and references to spare.

If you want to yell something in a crowded theater, specify whether it's smoke, fire, or hot soup you are bothered by.

And let's add the last factor: That whatever this is, it is not from a random source, it is go4up, part of the ddl-service industry.  Go4Up would be cuttings its own throat and its clients as well if it did something malicious to their own customers.  But that must be the "beta" theory.

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This exchange I think was useful in that users can now decide for themselves.  No harm in moving to a different aggregator like MultiUp or Jheburg if you can get the ddl-service you want.  As to giving up your favorite service, your call.  And I expect admin will remove go4up if he feels he should.

29/03/2019 23:11 — Anonymous

There might be the question if just a certain condition (Land, ISP, OS, Browser, Date, Go4upSub, Host + Hash Method/Result) is causing this. Your post, trough a legit suggestion seems too early. It just seems since yesterday and we don't know which users it act. does affect. (If all users using go4up could report all these details with their results we might get some indication.) Due to the missing information it might be a bit to early for admin to change scripts too. FE I did test 2 files with incl crc + AT sha256 (Problematic using VPN in SWE, -.-, Win 10 1809, 17763.379, Basilisk 19.3.27 + Jdownloader 19.3.29, 19.3.29, Zippy+ Openload: Hash ok // go4up->solidfiles + tusfiles fautly). So if some1 could test some linux system with non ff-based browser. If it's still the same, we don't know if it's some go4up temp problem, persistent or even intended. Even if it's persistent or esp just if that's the case a request to change the upload technique is legit.

29/03/2019 23:46 — Anonymous

It's interesting stuff. Fortunately, admin is a 150th level compu-wizard who reflects magic and gets 32-bit savings throws.

30/03/2019 00:38 — Anonymous

"I care about files integrity, nothing more nothing less."

Well said, admin-sensai

*noods*

30/03/2019 01:50 — Anonymous

admin didn't say that.

what is a "nood"?

--friends don't let friends type drunk.

30/03/2019 16:19 — Anonymous

Ahaha when a nood is as good as a wink ahem

Gomen Gomen

30/03/2019 09:32 * — BetaMAX

#Even a Pawn can take down a King#

Doesn't look system/browser/IP related to me.
I'm using a bash script in linux, that fetches the final DL url and downloads via wget or aria2.
Same behavior in this case.
I've tried to run wget with a current chrome user-agent and/or a proxy. Downloaded file stays the tempered version.

So it seems rather clear, the files are manipulated by go4up (only). All hosts most likely deliver what they get. If this is a try to avoid multi-deletes (deletion of all links that refer the same storage blocks), this is more than poor. Aiming unclear.

30/03/2019 16:24 — Anonymous

Good work there sempai.

When there are plenty of other options available we may as well refer to the age-old adage:

When in doubt, chuck it out

30/03/2019 16:49 — Anonymous

Having been an computer admin at a research university, from an administrative point of view:

1. Make minimal assumptions
2. Don't screw things up for other people.

Because you personally have multi ddl-service options, don't assume everyone does. I recall complaints in Feedback when go4up was not available.

At this point a warning is all that seems warranted, pending additional info. If you don't need to make decisions for other people, like removing a service, don't. You'll generally be happy you didn't.

30/03/2019 18:53 — Anonymous

How would a warning work? I would hate risk downloading shit.mkv just because I missed an alert or something

30/03/2019 18:57 — Anonymous

and then Fred and Velma and the gang pull the mask offa *research university anon*

... It's ... Hacker-san Dundundun...

01/04/2019 12:55 * — admin

Is it any different to what they did a few years back?
Edit: oh, I missed the part where you implied that it wasn't just appending bytes, sorry.

30/03/2019 09:31 * — Anonymous: "Lizette Hoskins"

[spam removed]

01/04/2019 13:03 * — admin

This is interesting - thanks for bringing that up.
I believe Go4Up have been applying their "MD5 changer" for a few years now.
A few years ago, it was just appending '0' bytes to the end of the file, which should be harmless and not cause anything noticeable other than a size increase and hash difference. If you're seeing reprocessing by mkvmerge though, that's something completely different, and BetaMAX seems to suggest the same below.

I haven't really looked into it yet, but from the sounds of things, I'll probably wrap Go4Up uploads in archives, as you suggest.
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Downloaded a random file and did a bit of a comparison. Extracted video and subtitle streams, as well as attachments were identical. Audio didn't hash match, however, I couldn't find a difference comparing the audio data itself (maybe older mkvmerge had issues with Opus muxing or similar?).
So I can't really find anything obviously wrong, apart from the fact that they've just remuxed the file for whatever reason. I'd say that the files are likely fine most of the time (except where there have been issues with older mkvmerge versions), but I have no idea why they'd go to the effort of doing this.
Looking at their news, they claimed some streaming support - perhaps something related to that?

Regardless, I've enabled 7z wrapping for Go4Up. If it works well, I may also enable split uploads to Go4Up (disabled when they started padding their files, as joining becomes non-trivial).

01/04/2019 17:38 — BetaMAX

#Even a Pawn can take down a King#

Thanks for enabling the 7z archive container.
Relating mkvmerge, yes probably not a good idea to mux recent formats (Opus, h.265) with a version released nearly five years ago. Not to mention, that there were also h.264 fixes all over the place:
https://mkvtoolnix.download/doc/NEWS.md
It's likely, that they use the old version to get some tempering by bugs and missing features.

04/04/2019 11:55 * — admin

I'd say the old version is just that because it's what's in Debian 8 (and not deliberately picked).

I did send them an email, asking about it, but, even after a few days, haven't received any response.

04/04/2019 16:52 — BetaMAX

#Even a Pawn can take down a King#

Really looks like that. I would've bet, nobody uses a unpatched oldstable mkvtoolnix for such an environment. Should have several vulnerabilities up to arbitrary code execution with rights of current user.
Their user service seems to fit the same level of laziness, I guess.

01/04/2019 22:40 — ElCid

Thank you.

30/03/2019 19:02 — Anonymous

                            New Information on Go4Up:

!!!Pause on using go4up!!!

I clicked on go4up for

https://animetosho.org/view/horriblesu...kv.1324037

(this file)

I got a screen of 3 boxes of php errors and a box that asked to use my processor for download, then my Norton Security popped up with a High Security warning of an intrusion attempt that it had blocked:

IPS Alert Name: Web Attack: Unwanted Extension or Scam Sites Redirection
-No action was required because Norton had blocked it.  Norton also notes that it matched the signature of a known attack.

Has their site been hijacked?

Anyways, I wouldn't use go4up for now.

(I clicked on the go4up site name.  There was no drop down menu at that time.)

The other aggregator sites are acting normally.

Didn't anyone else try visiting the go4up site?

30/03/2019 19:04 — Anonymous

Could be an April 1 joke, maybe. But Norton looked serious about this.

31/03/2019 12:46 — Anonymous

https://animetosho.org/view/n1129517 should be at https://animetosho.org/series/re-zero-...2018.13430 (i guess 2nd one to https://animetosho.org/episode/195833 is ok.
Also for https://animetosho.org/view/n1086363
https://animetosho.org/series/re-zero-...su-2.14792 I believe should not even exist (also moving to 13430)
While https://animetosho.org/view/n1130683 is not part of S2 but should be https://animetosho.org/series/11370

01/04/2019 12:53 — admin

Thanks. I've updated some, but I'm not entirely sure I understand you. Does it seem right to you now?

02/04/2019 08:44 — Anonymous

Thanks. I did mess some things up myself. But It does seem ok now

01/04/2019 18:25 — Pharmboy

Is there a problem with usenet uploading ? Recent large releases (>8 GB) have no nzb links (the latest 10 GB with a nzb link is https://animetosho.org/view/jojos-biza....n1131230, almost 48h old)

04/04/2019 12:01 — admin

I think the uploads are going through, but I'm seemingly getting a lot of missing articles. The uploader does slow down and retries posting when it encounters these issues, so the uploads are going slow.

01/04/2019 21:26 — R4nd0mcow64

hi there i was wondering how i can check my seed to leach ratio as i would like to keep it above 2 any tips as to how i can see it?

02/04/2019 13:58 — Anonymous

you should've at least say what client you use.
For tixati:
1. CLick "Layout" button, click "select columns", tick "UL Ratio" then click "Close"
2. or click on the torrent you want to check, then click "Details" tab

03/04/2019 13:17 — R4nd0mcow64

yea lol i ment for this sight in specific as on the old one i was banned for not seeding enough

03/04/2019 16:33 — Anonymous

As I understand it, AT is just a pass-thru mirror. It does not ban anyone. You have to worry about Nyaa or TT or anidex.

03/04/2019 16:51 — Anonymous

If you were banned for not seeding enough you were on a private tracker. This is a public site.

02/04/2019 17:30 — Anonymous

Who's the BG character of 2017 q2 theme again?

02/04/2019 18:26 — Anonymous

Well the theme is called Yoshino, so that's probably her name. Then just narrow it down to characters named Yoshino in shows that aired that season. Obviously not something I watched, but give me a little time to do the groundwork and I'll see if I can figure out which show it is.

04/04/2019 18:34 — Anonymous

I tried but there were so many characters lol.
Wish tosho just provided the full picture to download as these Bgs are so cute.

14/04/2019 01:26 — admin

They're just screenshots from the first episode, of a show that starts that particular season. Usually a major character, so shouldn't be hard to recognise if you skim through the shows of that season.

02/04/2019 18:31 — Anonymous

Alright, looks to be Yoshino Koharu from Sakura Quest.
https://animetosho.org/inc/sideimg_172.jpg
https://myanimelist.net/character/1474...ino_Koharu

04/04/2019 18:29 — Anonymous

Thanks! Is there a list of all the characters used in the BG or something? Anyway thanks that's her!

03/04/2019 15:52 — Anonymous

Is Go4up back to normal? Like, If I DL from solidfiles through Go4up, is the file going to be exactly the same as one DL'd from eg openload? Like same filesize and hash and so on?

03/04/2019 16:10 — Anonymous

back to normal? go4up has been fiddling with crc for years, one way or another. It's generated no complaints except by those who worry about crc. You probably read admin's note about wrapping those media files in a 7z. I haven't seen any reports about the effects of that.

if you worry about crc you've probably not been using go4up. If you've been using go4up you've probably not been worried about crc.

04/04/2019 11:59 — admin

If the file is wrapped in a 7z archive, after extraction, it should be identical to the file AT downloads. If you find a discrepancy, please do let us know.
If the file isn't wrapped in a 7z archive, it likely won't be identical, but probably is fine otherwise.

03/04/2019 15:58 — Anonymous

BTW, End of Season thank yous to the Toshos for bringing me my animus

Gamberai for Spring 09!

07/04/2019 05:32 — Anonymous

Spring 09? I can't wait to watch K-On!, Saki, and the new Haruhi series!

05/04/2019 15:03 — Anonymous

Love this website! The comments here are perfect for a quick browse whilst getting my shows. I don't do MAL or Plebbit anymore as an intended 5 minute browse can easily become 5 hours of faffing about!

What about a page here for general comments and recs on the current season as it unfolds?

14/04/2019 01:29 — admin

It's been considered, but it's not really a focus. There are plenty of other websites which already do that, after all.

05/04/2019 15:06 — ilikeit

Hi admins, it is possible to refetch this?
https://animetosho.org/view/dragsterps...s.n1131642

14/04/2019 01:29 — admin

Was there an issue that I missed?

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