New Guy. Just curious on the scanned comics issue....

etos45 · Post by **etos45** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:17 pm

Hey,

I just got into the forums here though I did the Valiant Comics website for awhile. Anyways, I just started getting into PC Comics (like the .cbr files) and I saw the discussion on scanned Valiants here and I was just wondering what the easiest way to come across scanned issues?

Thanks,
Greg

BodaZoffa · Post by **BodaZoffa** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:50 pm

etos45 wrote:Hey,

I just got into the forums here though I did the Valiant Comics website for awhile. Anyways, I just started getting into PC Comics (like the .cbr files) and I saw the discussion on scanned Valiants here and I was just wondering what the easiest way to come across scanned issues?

Thanks,
Greg

Discs off of eBay or P2P downloads.

Boda

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:36 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 78632&rd=1

Just ran across this on Ebay. Be careful though, his feedback is not that great.

skot · Post by **skot** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:09 pm

i highly advise do NOT buy them off ebay. most of the time they are not scanned by those people and are making money off others hard work. ill give you a link to a site that has the first section avalible. but you need a bit torrent client to download them. let me know if you need any help. everything is free. no need to pay money. its a community thing adn we all do it cuase we love tghe comics and want to share these great stories. we all own thre issues....

its safer to read them on the cpu then bend them out of the bag lol.

skot

Neurosis1 · Post by **Neurosis1** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 1:58 pm

Scot, can you pm me the site for valiants as well?

-Chris

etos45 · Post by **etos45** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:46 pm

skot wrote:i highly advise do NOT buy them off ebay. most of the time they are not scanned by those people and are making money off others hard work. ill give you a link to a site that has the first section avalible. but you need a bit torrent client to download them. let me know if you need any help. everything is free. no need to pay money. its a community thing adn we all do it cuase we love tghe comics and want to share these great stories. we all own thre issues.... its safer to read them on the cpu then bend them out of the bag lol.

skot

What's up?
Yeah, I kind of agree on the whole profitting on someone elses work... so I can't imagine buying it from ebay. I would greatly appreciate that link, thanks.

Oh, and by the way.... how do you actually MAKE cbrs?

Greg

tssgery · Post by **tssgery** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:56 pm

making the cbr files is easy.

1. First you scan the book, saving each page as a jpg.
2. Then you rar the files up (which will result in a .rar file)
3. Rename the rar file to have a cbr extension

The only trick is to save the individual pages with names that will cause it to sort in the rar index properly. For example, I use:

title-issue-page.jpg (and page is always a 2 digit number)
such as:
Solar-1-01.jpg

If you do a google search for cbr, you'll find many more helpful little hints and more verbose instructions.

pta391 · Post by **pta391** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 10:30 pm

hey im i too late?an i get in on this as well. Por Favor?

thanks....

skot · Post by **skot** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 11:27 am

thanks for all the pm guys..... jsut do a search for comics torrent sites and find a torrent client........

skot

soundoftheuniverse · Post by **soundoftheuniverse** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:46 pm

Hmm, maybe I'm the only one, copying gigs of porn onto CD's... can't bring myself to deleting them..

Weee 3.5 gigs of Valiant pages!! This is what computer's where made for!!

David_Cody · Post by **David_Cody** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:43 pm

I've not used a Bit Torrent. Is it similar to Napster or KaZaA? Do you just do a search and the interface brings up the hits?

I wanna get in on all that digital Valiant fun.

db

soundoftheuniverse · Post by **soundoftheuniverse** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 5:38 am

I downloaded Bit Tornado for FREE from:

http://bittornado.com/download.html - choose Sweden Mirror

After the install I opened the Valiant Torrent file, pointed to where I wanted to download the files and away it went. I'll try to leave my computer on for as long as possible.

Hope this helps

soundoftheuniverse · Post by **soundoftheuniverse** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 6:16 am

Whoah! I downloaded the entire thing in less than 20 minutes.

Bit Tornado is blazing FAST w/ Cable modem!

etos45 · Post by **etos45** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:03 am

soundoftheuniverse wrote:Whoah! I downloaded the entire thing in less than 20 minutes.

Bit Tornado is blazing FAST w/ Cable modem!

See.... now what am I doing wrong?! I'm using BitTornado and I've been downloading that Valiant Gigapack for about a week now... and it says I still have SEVERAL weeks to go....

I'm using a cable modem and I have never had problems in the past with slow downloads.... any help?

Greg

etos45 · Post by **etos45** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:06 am

tssgery wrote:making the cbr files is easy.

1. First you scan the book, saving each page as a jpg.
2. Then you rar the files up (which will result in a .rar file)
3. Rename the rar file to have a cbr extension

The only trick is to save the individual pages with names that will cause it to sort in the rar index properly. For example, I use:

title-issue-page.jpg (and page is always a 2 digit number)
such as:
Solar-1-01.jpg

If you do a google search for cbr, you'll find many more helpful little hints and more verbose instructions.

Okay, I'm going to try that this weekend... just one more question...
what's the average DPI most people scan at?

Greg

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:08 am

etos45 wrote:Okay, I'm going to try that this weekend... just one more question...
what's the average DPI most people scan at?

Greg

Really vary a lot. One detail, the result's much nicer if you put a black paper behind the page you're scanning.

/Magnus

usagent · Post by **usagent** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:34 am

Hey...nothing sounds better than reading soem classic Valiant while I'm trying to goof off at work...I have bittorrent...now how can i get the comics? Help please!!!

David_Cody · Post by **David_Cody** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:27 pm

Allright, I downloaded the Bit Tornado app and installed it. When I execute the program, it keeps asking for which .torrent file to use? How in bloody blazes do you get past that???

db

soundoftheuniverse · Post by **soundoftheuniverse** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:00 pm

So far my share rating is 3.1 =)) I'll keep it up for a bit longer though.

This is like the best thing to ever happen to Valiant. Having the freedom to read freely without browsing through hundreds of pounds of comics is a GODSEND! Can I get an AMEN?!? (no worries I'm not religious)

In an effort to spread Valiant in a new way which I've never been able to do before I'm going to leave my Valiant Torrent running indefinitely. For those jonezing for Valiant I'll be a beacon of Valiant light to get 'em connected.

Anyone else leaving the comp on to get V1 out to everyone asap?

I'm pretty sure the torrent works while your comp hibernates so we can all be good Geomancers and keep the planet happy.

whetteon · Post by **whetteon** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 2:12 am

david_albuq wrote:Allright, I downloaded the Bit Tornado app and installed it. When I execute the program, it keeps asking for which .torrent file to use? How in bloody blazes do you get past that???

db

good question. We must be stoopid!

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 2:56 am

Where do I down load the Valiant files from?

soundoftheuniverse · Post by **soundoftheuniverse** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:00 am

Ok guys this is what I did, and I'm a complete newbie to this torrent stuff.

I downloaded and installed Bit Tornado.

Then I opened the program.

I then downloaded the Valiant Torrent from the Cult website.

Once you have the Valiant Torrent file you then double click it and it opens the Bit Tornado and askes which folder you want the Valiant directory downloaded to. Once you pick the spot you're done. All you have to do is wait.

If your experience is anything like mine then you'll download what appears to be the entire torrent fairly quickly but you actually need to wait for the entire thing to actually be downloaded before you can view any pages.

All in all it took me a full day and night to download the files using Cable modem.

usagent · Post by **usagent** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 10:03 am

When i run double click the torrent file and save it to a folder, it gives me an error message: trouble reading file...too many open files. then it list one of the files. this happen to anyone else?

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:48 pm

soundoftheuniverse wrote:Ok guys this is what I did, and I'm a complete newbie to this torrent stuff.

I downloaded and installed Bit Tornado.

Then I opened the program.

I then downloaded the Valiant Torrent from the Cult website.

Once you have the Valiant Torrent file you then double click it and it opens the Bit Tornado and askes which folder you want the Valiant directory downloaded to. Once you pick the spot you're done. All you have to do is wait.

If your experience is anything like mine then you'll download what appears to be the entire torrent fairly quickly but you actually need to wait for the entire thing to actually be downloaded before you can view any pages.

All in all it took me a full day and night to download the files using Cable modem.

Links please.
Where did you download the Valiant torrent file? I don't know what the cult website is.

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 1:25 pm

Knightt_333 wrote:Chris, sent ya a PM....

Chris

thank you

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