The Nanny Season 4 DVB (high quality)

So, been a huge fan of The Nanny TV Show since forever. Also, been very annoyed Season 4, 5 and 6 were never released on DVD and probably never will be (licensing issues, contractual issues with appearing guest stars...and Sony sucks).



The copies floating around - mostly Lifetime TV captures - are ridiculously bad in quality and out of order.



Lately I stumbled across a much higher quality rip from a Bulgarian group shown on bcomedy in Bulgaria. But of course, no English audio. Well, actually, English audio but Bulgarian recorded over it, not in a separate channel or file, no, just straight over it. They should be shot for this.

I also found by chance, a not quite as good copy from Russia, and yay, English and Russian in separate audio channels.



I used the DVB quality (better than anything around, as close as you'll ever get to DVD quality for those seasons) Bulgarian Video and combined it with the Russian English audio.

This was a lot of work, about 3 weeks, since different channels cut out pieces and blend in ads wherever they damn please, so synching it up was a piece of work.



Specs below, I tested the files on all of my TVs (via USB, WD TV extender and streamed directly), the iPad, iPhone and my computers and they work fine. I do however recommend that you download a couple of eps to try for yourself before you give the whole seasons a go.



General

Unique ID : 253891618518316809573196751906083961412 (0xBF01BF4032BCEC57912CEDE7CD77FA44)

Complete name : G:__TIXATIThe.Nanny.s04.DVBthe.nanny.s04e01.dvbrip.xvid-phen.mkv

Format : Matroska

Format version : Version 4 / Version 2

File size : 247 MiB

Duration : 23mn 0s

Overall bit rate : 1 504 Kbps

Encoded date : UTC 2014-05-26 10:53:36

Writing application : mkvmerge v6.9.1 ('Blue Panther') 64bit built on Apr 18 2014 18:23:38

Writing library : libebml v1.3.0 + libmatroska v1.4.1



Video

ID : 1

Format : MPEG-4 Visual

Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5

Format settings, BVOP : Yes

Format settings, QPel : No

Format settings, GMC : No warppoints

Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)

Codec ID : V_MS/VFW/FOURCC / XVID

Codec ID/Hint : XviD

Duration : 23mn 0s

Bit rate : 1 346 Kbps

Width : 704 pixels

Height : 528 pixels

Display aspect ratio : 4:3

Frame rate mode : Constant

Frame rate : 25.000 fps

Color space : YUV

Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0

Bit depth : 8 bits

Scan type : Progressive

Compression mode : Lossy

Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.145

Stream size : 221 MiB (89%)

Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Default : Yes

Forced : No



Audio

ID : 2

Format : MPEG Audio

Format version : Version 1

Format profile : Layer 3

Codec ID : A_MPEG/L3

Codec ID/Hint : MP3

Duration : 23mn 0s

Bit rate mode : Constant

Bit rate : 128 Kbps

Channel(s) : 2 channels

Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz

Compression mode : Lossy

Stream size : 21.1 MiB (9%)

Default : Yes

Forced : No

Disclaimer:



Season 6 has a lot of Recut episodes. That means, I had to cut out scenes from the Lifetime airing because there was no audio available or the other way around. It's not having an impact on the eps per se, it's just a little sad that some jokes had to go because of greedy ad-focused stations or moral differences in eastern European countries. Still, it's all good.

Those eps have been encoded using AVC, not XviD, and are slightly larger in size.

Also, all eps should be in-sync (audio/video) most of the times. But as mentioned, it wasnt easy and there can be parts, where sync is not perfect but usually it's within the milliseconds range.

End credits almost never have audio or the appropriate music because of early cut-outs of some stations.

Fran's last address to the audience in the show's finale is not sync and missing some audio. Couldnt be bothered to fix this too.