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Could someone explain (in very blond terms)
precisely how a luddite like me,
has managed to download and watch Two feature films
using this
www.torrentz.com/ to search them out,
and this 'Azureus' to download them
finally watch them on Media player.
because thrilled with my success, I went again to search out
a fresh film, and singulary failed to make head nor tail of it.
Limewire I use frequently to search out music to burn on CD,
but I cant get my head around movies etc where I now open something which looks a lot like Limewire to watch progress of my download, but
have to use a search engine which offers me a choice of sources,
Cheers Richard
precisely how a luddite like me,
has managed to download and watch Two feature films
using this
www.torrentz.com/ to search them out,
and this 'Azureus' to download them
finally watch them on Media player.
because thrilled with my success, I went again to search out
a fresh film, and singulary failed to make head nor tail of it.
Limewire I use frequently to search out music to burn on CD,
but I cant get my head around movies etc where I now open something which looks a lot like Limewire to watch progress of my download, but
have to use a search engine which offers me a choice of sources,
Cheers Richard
You use the sites to find the file you'd like to have.
Click on the link in your search results and it'll download the torrent - generally to the desktop or wherever you've setup the downloads to be dropped. Use the browsers' preferences to set that elsewhere from the default location.
In the torrent app, the preferences/options will show you where the files are stored once downloaded - simply go there and there you go.
Equally, depending on how you've configured Azureus, you can highlight the file in the window and use right click to show you where it is on the drive.
Pretty straight forward once you spend a bit of time looking through the options/preferences and change some parameters to ones that suit you better.
Click on the link in your search results and it'll download the torrent - generally to the desktop or wherever you've setup the downloads to be dropped. Use the browsers' preferences to set that elsewhere from the default location.
In the torrent app, the preferences/options will show you where the files are stored once downloaded - simply go there and there you go.
Equally, depending on how you've configured Azureus, you can highlight the file in the window and use right click to show you where it is on the drive.
Pretty straight forward once you spend a bit of time looking through the options/preferences and change some parameters to ones that suit you better.
Its improving he said nervously
Today I've made a bit of progress, noting path downloads from
start to finish.
I need to improve my choice of them though,
Although lucky so far, I'm on the lookout for 'remarks' which are sometimes
attached to found torrents
'crap cinema version' is a common one.
thanks for further advice everyone BTW
Today I've made a bit of progress, noting path downloads from
start to finish.
I need to improve my choice of them though,
Although lucky so far, I'm on the lookout for 'remarks' which are sometimes
attached to found torrents
'crap cinema version' is a common one.
thanks for further advice everyone BTW
If you searching for films - I'm told that the best way is to search for the username of somebody on the torrent search site who regularly uploads new releases of DVDs)...that way you can be pretty sure that the quality will be consistently high.
axxo appears to be a common one.
Not a clue how to download things like that though
axxo appears to be a common one.
Not a clue how to download things like that though
Scraggles said:
u can use videolan to play movies on pc, as if in avi, then it is a pc format and not a dvd player format, u can convert, but it is a right pain.
avi files dont play afaik on dvd players
avi files dont play afaik on dvd players
Depends on the file and the player. Almost any dvd player available in the last couple of years will be able to play avi format files encoded in divx/xvid, and burnt to cd. Just look for the logo on the player or check the manual.
jimmyjimjim said:
Scraggles said:
u can use videolan to play movies on pc, as if in avi, then it is a pc format and not a dvd player format, u can convert, but it is a right pain.
avi files dont play afaik on dvd players
avi files dont play afaik on dvd players
Depends on the file and the player. Almost any dvd player available in the last couple of years will be able to play avi format files encoded in divx/xvid, and burnt to cd. Just look for the logo on the player or check the manual.
one reason why have not got a dvd player yet is that thought avi's would not work, admitteldy only got a 14" Tv or a 21" monitor...
most avi's are backed up to dvd and rarely use cd unless for the car
So exactly what disk type do I need to store movies on
Is it best on CD or DVD-RW will a movie fit one disk?
Have trialed' a couple of
'do anything' type DVD burning downloads neither have done anything whatsoever
my films currently look like this;
to view movie I open in media player by clicking on movie clip
Is it best on CD or DVD-RW will a movie fit one disk?
Have trialed' a couple of
'do anything' type DVD burning downloads neither have done anything whatsoever
my films currently look like this;
to view movie I open in media player by clicking on movie clip
Edited by rich 36 on Wednesday 14th March 19:36
I thiiiiink what you're saying/trying to do is pull material off t'web, then put it on disk in a format suitable for viewing on a standard dvd player? For sharing with friends and so on.
At least that's my interpretation, based on a couple of your posts. Bit tired at the moment, and brain not working well, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
From your screenshot, the file size is a leeeetle large for most CDs, so you probably won't get very far; I tend to only use CDs for one or two episodes of a series(helpfully they usually come out as 349Mb ish), and don't bother converting them as I know they work on my player.
However, if I want to convert them to a format viewable on a standard DVD player, I use Nero (Nero Vision, bundled with most Nero suites).
This converts from whatver codec you've got the file in, to DVD standard format. Also allows basic titling and so on.
And takes one feck of a long time to do so. The gruntier the pc the better. It'll also take 4.7Gb on your hard drive, so just keep the file until you prove the disc works.
I've done this before for friend for a couple of shows that weren't available on DVD in the UK, and got variable results; it would play on some players, not others. Lipsyncing issues, as well. Don't bother with fancy titles, music et al - you'll find at least one player that won't like it, and refuse the disc.
Also, you'll need to try different media; I got best results with DVD+R from verbatim, some other brands wouldn't play, and DVD-R just got laughed at. Which is a pisser because the car head unit likes DVD-R (for music mp3 dvds). Work that one out!
If you know who is going to be watching what you've downloaded, find out what player they've got, and look at what it will read - you may find it'll play avi/divx/anything you throw at it, in which case don't bother converting.
Be aware though, that most avi support in standalone dvd players is fairly rudimentary; pause may or may not work (sends you back to the begining of the film when you unpause), disc may crash for no reason, etc. If you are quick, fast forwarding past a bad bit can work.
To be honest, most of the time it works fine, but the odd failure after 5 hours of transcoding for a single disc does annoy.
If all you want to do is back stuff up that you've downloaded, in order to clear it off the pc, then use Nero or any other DVD burner to create data dvds and simply burn the avi files to disk, before deleting the file off of your hard drive.
Hope this helps.
At least that's my interpretation, based on a couple of your posts. Bit tired at the moment, and brain not working well, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
From your screenshot, the file size is a leeeetle large for most CDs, so you probably won't get very far; I tend to only use CDs for one or two episodes of a series(helpfully they usually come out as 349Mb ish), and don't bother converting them as I know they work on my player.
However, if I want to convert them to a format viewable on a standard DVD player, I use Nero (Nero Vision, bundled with most Nero suites).
This converts from whatver codec you've got the file in, to DVD standard format. Also allows basic titling and so on.
And takes one feck of a long time to do so. The gruntier the pc the better. It'll also take 4.7Gb on your hard drive, so just keep the file until you prove the disc works.
I've done this before for friend for a couple of shows that weren't available on DVD in the UK, and got variable results; it would play on some players, not others. Lipsyncing issues, as well. Don't bother with fancy titles, music et al - you'll find at least one player that won't like it, and refuse the disc.
Also, you'll need to try different media; I got best results with DVD+R from verbatim, some other brands wouldn't play, and DVD-R just got laughed at. Which is a pisser because the car head unit likes DVD-R (for music mp3 dvds). Work that one out!
If you know who is going to be watching what you've downloaded, find out what player they've got, and look at what it will read - you may find it'll play avi/divx/anything you throw at it, in which case don't bother converting.
Be aware though, that most avi support in standalone dvd players is fairly rudimentary; pause may or may not work (sends you back to the begining of the film when you unpause), disc may crash for no reason, etc. If you are quick, fast forwarding past a bad bit can work.
To be honest, most of the time it works fine, but the odd failure after 5 hours of transcoding for a single disc does annoy.
If all you want to do is back stuff up that you've downloaded, in order to clear it off the pc, then use Nero or any other DVD burner to create data dvds and simply burn the avi files to disk, before deleting the file off of your hard drive.
Hope this helps.
Quite right Jim,
thats pretty much my target and thanks for explaining it
in a bit more detail.
Its one of those things like posting pics here
creating music CD for car
and anything else on the PC,
once its achievd initially its plain sailing
just hang around on here a bit longer if you don't mind
I may need you
thats pretty much my target and thanks for explaining it
in a bit more detail.
Its one of those things like posting pics here
creating music CD for car
and anything else on the PC,
once its achievd initially its plain sailing
just hang around on here a bit longer if you don't mind
I may need you
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