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The Search Series 1 (2007) [TVRip (XviD)]

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This torrent was uploaded from www.TheBox.bz (signup is open and free) - the home of all British TV

The Search is a british reality-shoe that aired in January-February 2007 on Channel 4, and I guess it never really made any real impact. Too bad, because it had real potential. If you like The Mole or The Amazing Race, then you will probably also like this. It is in fact very similar to the failed american reality-show Treasure Hunters, if anyone happens to remember it.

Each episode (except the final?, hasn't seen it in a while) consists of three challenges, the first two gives the winning team an edge in the final challenge, and the team that loses the final challenge then has to eliminate one player in a rather unique and clever poison chalice round. The teams must solve clues and puzzles sort of resempling movies like Indiana Jones, National Treasure and Da Vinci Code, in each challenge.

You can read more about the show below:
Wikipedia
Channel 4

OBS!!! Both the links above contains spoilers. Wikipedia starts with a general description without any real spoilers, then has an episode guide, where the eliminated member is mentioned at the end of each episode description (and possible otherwise), then follows a character description, with even more prominent spoilers.
The Channel 4 website contains the name of the winner and runner-up at top of the index page. An aletnative is to go directly to the About The Show page, which is spoiler-free as well as the Contestants page. The episode pages have about the same spoiler information as the Wikipedia episode guide. The other pages, about the clues, code cracking and locations are relatively free (some locations have pictures of players indicating at least how far they went).

I haven't seen any episode titles anywhere, so I have used the main location (country) of the episode, as a way to be able to locate a particular episode without being too spoilerish.

Info for Episode 1 - Italy:

Name The Search - 1x01 - Italy - XviD.hiQ.avi
Size 603,205,764 bytes (575.262 MB)
Play duration 00:47:31 (2850.68 s)
Container type AVI OpenDML
ISFT MEncoder dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.0.2


Resolution VERY HIGH (704 x 576)
Average DRF quality LOW (6.473292)
Standard deviation quality MEDIUM (1.496258)
Std. dev. weighted mean HIGH (0.575438)

Video track

FourCC XVID/XVID
Resolution 704 x 576
Frame aspect ratio 11:9 = 1.222222
Pixel aspect ratio 1:1 = 1
Display aspect ratio 11:9 = 1.222222
Vprp aspect ratio 16:9 = 1.777777
Framerate 25 fps
Number of frames 71267
Stream size 532,917,523 bytes
Bitrate 1495.552003 kbps
Qf 0.147525

Audio track

Audio tag 0x50 (MPEG (MP1/MP2))
Bitrate (container) 192 kbps CBR
Channels (container) 2
Sample rate (container) 48000 Hz
Type MPEG-1 Layer II
Delay 39.958333 ms

About MPEG4 encoding

User data XviD0041
Packed bitstream No
QPel No
GMC No
Interlaced No
Aspect ratio Square pixels
Quant type MPEG
Number of frames 71267
Drop/delay frames 12
Corrupted frames 0
Max consecutive B-VOPs 2

The same general info is also true for episode 2,3,5,6. A warning here, some players, including VLC, will ignore the vprp aspect ratio, as it is not the standard way of indicating squeezed pixels, and chances are that some/most(?) stand-alone players will probably also have problems with this. The solution in VLC, is to right-click and select Video -> Aspect Ratio -> 16:9. All these episodes have the tag HiQ, not sure if its a tag, or just to note that it is higher quality the the scene. Not sure what type of TV-signal was the source for these, thereof the general TVRip in the title.

Info for Episode 4 - Egypt:

Name The Search - 1x04 - Egypt - WS.PDTV.XviD-CaRaT.avi
Size 366,940,636 bytes (349.942 MB)
Play duration 00:48:53 (2933.48 s)
Container type AVI rec-lists (*)

Resolution HIGH (624 x 352)
Average DRF quality LOW (6.495425)
Standard deviation quality LOW (2.349811)
Std. dev. weighted mean LOW (2.069390)

Video track

FourCC xvid/XVID
Resolution 624 x 352
Frame aspect ratio 39:22 = 1.772727 (~16:9)
Pixel aspect ratio 1:1 = 1
Display aspect ratio 39:22 = 1.772727 (~16:9)
Framerate 25 fps
Number of frames 73337
Stream size 314,986,450 bytes
Bitrate 859.011003 kbps
Qf 0.156434

Audio track

Audio tag 0x55 (MP3)
Bitrate (container) 128.52 kbps VBR
Channels (container) 2
Sample rate (container) 48000 Hz
Type MPEG-1 Layer III
Encoder LAME3.90. (Made with BeSweet v1.5b30)

About MPEG4 encoding

User data XviD0046
Packed bitstream No
QPel No
GMC No
Interlaced No
Aspect ratio Square pixels
Quant type H.263
Number of frames 73337
Drop/delay frames 0
Corrupted frames 0
Max consecutive B-VOPs 1

Info for Episode 7 - UK:

Name The Search - 1x07 - UK - Finale - PROPER.WS.PDTV.XviD-REMAX.avi
Size 364,843,008 bytes (347.941 MB)
Play duration 00:48:55 (2935.04 s)
Container type AVI OpenDML
ISFT VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
JUNK VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

Resolution HIGH (640 x 352)
Average DRF quality LOW (5.907394)
Standard deviation quality MEDIUM (1.508497)
Std. dev. weighted mean MEDIUM (0.946072)

Video track

FourCC xvid/XVID
Resolution 640 x 352
Frame aspect ratio 20:11 = 1.818181
Pixel aspect ratio 1:1 = 1
Display aspect ratio 20:11 = 1.818181
Framerate 25 fps
Number of frames 73376
Stream size 312,411,045 bytes
Bitrate 851.534684 kbps
Qf 0.151195

Audio track

Audio tag 0x55 (MP3)
Bitrate (container) 130.024 kbps VBR
Channels (container) 2
Sample rate (container) 48000 Hz
Type MPEG-1 Layer III
Encoder LAME3.90. (Made with BeSweet v1.5b30)

About MPEG4 encoding

User data DivX999b000p
User data XviD0037
Packed bitstream Yes (*)
QPel No
GMC No
Interlaced No
Aspect ratio Square pixels
Quant type H.263
Number of frames 73376
Drop/delay frames 0
Corrupted frames 0
Max consecutive B-VOPs 2

The irrelevant parts edited out of the reports created by Avinaptic.

I have seen on dupe sites that there should be scene-releases of all episodes, but don't think I have seen them all. I know I downloaded some version of all episodes when it came out, but didn't save them then, which I later regretted, when this was what I could find on the Survivor-Central IRC, and was basically unavailable anywhere else, so enjoy! Also all please seed to at least a ratio of 1.0 and preferable much more, so that the torrent won't go dead.

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