Newly Uploaded YouTube Playlist of 1080p Upscaled, and AI Enhanced, Encodes Made From The Original Tensegrity DVD's

Tensegrity u/TechnoMagical_Intent 2025-01-06 15:14 UTC 33 points

UPDATE: after the DMCA purges of YouTube videos on multiple channels (including mine 🤬) in late February 2026, alternate solutions for streaming are being evaluated

Thanks to u/hypnotica420x for the encoding work. In their words:

"Magical passes was 6500kbs dvd. Very high quality. I used a special TopazLabs AI model that Veia tried to get rid of called 'Dione Robust.' Tensegrity Vol. 1 to 3 are 4000kbs. I had to use an AI model called Proteus, that I believe they got rid of, in order to make them look decent. Those upscales are the best you're gonna get. I was part of a DVD AI upscale group like 3 years ago. That's how I learned how to upscale. I'm still considered one of the best ones but I retired from doing that."

The MKV video files (folder link is inside the pastebin)

And the backup of the ISO made from the source DVD

For comparison, here is a screenshot from one of the existing YouTube version of these videos. The one on Enlightenment Channel (video has now been removed by YouTube) that has over 75k views:

SD - copy of a copy?

And a screenshot of the same segment/video, from the new streaming HD (Español) YouTube upload (LINK DEFUNCT 🙁):

HD Goodness!

All of the videos now have embedded chapter marks and titles, the original cover art that was included with the DVD's, and both an English and an Español version. I held it at two copies of each, but included a link in the description of each video to the MKV's that have German, and in one file Italian, audio tracks.

You'll have to either subscribe to Cleargreen's Pass Library to access a Ukrainian/Russian language version, or search YouTube for an SD/480p version.

Sometime later I'll probably have to go through and correct the subtitles that were auto-generated by YouTube for accuracy of translation to other languages; but that will have to wait.

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u/TechnoMagical_Intent 1 points 2025-01-06 15:22

I include in the playlist is Yulia Chi's waterfall video demo of all the passes from the first volume, because there is no actual run-thru of the passes included on the first volume DVD.

They didn't start that until the second volume/disc.

I also discovered that the audio goes out of sync in the last chapter on disc/volume 2; so all streaming versions on YouTube have the same error. That's challenging to correct, and I didn't notice it until it had already been uploaded and worked on. So I just noted that in a comment in both the English and Español versions.

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u/akisviete 2 points 2025-01-09 09:41

Hi, I am trying to extract subtitles from audio using OpenWhisper llm largev2 and largev3. So far the best results are with fasterwhisper implementation. To get the error rate down I am experimenting with BS-RoFormer llm to extract speech from audio using UVR. I will share the results when finished as the text will need manual correction anyway.

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u/TechnoMagical_Intent 1 points 2025-01-09 10:50

Great! The work will be much appreciated!

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u/akisviete 1 points 2025-01-14 13:24

Autogenerated by fasterwhisper largev2, audio filtered with BS-Roformer-Viperx-1297. Not proofread by a human. txt vol1 https://pastebin.com/iAxSVxwh vtt vol1 https://pastebin.com/YmAfvSRV txt vol2 https://pastebin.com/y4Cii2A7 vtt vol2 https://pastebin.com/bMvmWjsC txt vol3 https://pastebin.com/pek1sZEF vtt vol3 https://pastebin.com/6cJk847U txt unbending intent https://pastebin.com/q3cCzYsM vtt unbending intent https://pastebin.com/G5GW8zmV

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u/TechnoMagical_Intent 1 points 2025-02-10 01:33

And someone's been doing their own AI upscale tinkering with the Tensegrity DVD's and Enigma documentary:

https://archive.org/details/@seatiko - list of uploads

all the way to 4K.

Here's a separate enhancement & upscale of the Enigma of a Sorcerer documentary, streaming on Odysee:

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u/TechnoMagical_Intent 1 points 2025-11-04 18:41

ISO of the Unbending Intent DVD (Vol. 4)

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