Hi folks - Brand new rookie on this board so play gentle! LOL! I want to start downloading movies onto my computer and then burn them onto a DVD. Currently, I use Windows XP. I don't have a DVD burner yet, but what I need to know is: Where do I go to burn movies? I have heard about torrents, etc - no clue what that is. But I just want to be able to download and burn as easy as I do currently with audio music. I use Cabos for my music and sometimes Limewire. Pls help! I am a rookie at this. thanks so much!
This should get you started ~ http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/479599 You'll need utorrent, peer guardian 2 for downloading torrents. DVD Flick or ConvertXtoDVD and AVIMux GUI for joining and encoding. Imgburn for burning, VLC or MPC for watching on PC. And a torrent site of your choice (the pirate bay).
LOL - well now that U mention it. I the type that is really scared to try something on my PC that I have never done for the simple fact that I don't want to ruin anything.
Mr Locoeng, as you are well aware, today is Valentine's day and I understand you are married, so to hold a hand of a stranger ! Well ! Endo told me a thing or two about you *Jo blushes* Jo (and endo)
I guess I walked into that one.... So I'll take out my silver spoon instead and rescind the hand holding offer. 1. Put beer on ice. 2. Download uTorrent and install, then follow this guide for setup. 3. Download, install and update Peer Guardian 2 and then just let it run. http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/ 4. If you are behind a router you'll have to forward ports to receive connections from peers...here is a guide by router ~ http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm 5. Go to http://www.thepiratebay.org and search to your hearts content for what ever it is you are looking for. 6. When the torrent download completes you'll be faced with a folder full of .rar files. Download and install WinRar. Open the folder with your downloaded content in it and choose one of the items displaying a stack of books and right click it, choose Extract here from the context menu. 7. Once your .rar is extracted you'll probably have an AVI which needs to be encoded for burning to blank DVD for viewing in stand alone DVD player. Convert the AVI using DVD Flick. If you end up with two folders identified as CD1 and CD2 you'll need to join these files using AVIMux GUI. Get it here ~ http://www.alexander-noe.com/video/amg/ and the joining guide is here ~ http://www.alexander-noe.com/video/amg/en_join_files.html DVD Flick guide ~ http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/552742 Do not autoburn! 8. Download and install ImgBurn ~ http://www.imgburn.com 9. Go pop some popcorm and get the beer off the ice. 10. Open Imgburn and follow this guide for burning ~ http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=4632 11. Use Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden blank DVD's only. 12. Burn movie, see step 10. 13. Sit on couch with popcorn and beer and enjoy the show.
Kind of dated with port's and client's but some good info here about torrent's: http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/#what
ok so here is where I am at so far - I downloaded a movie last night - took forever. This morning it says its finsihed, clicked on it to view it - up popped Windows Media Player - I can hear the movie very clear but no picture.
What format is it in, if an avi, this should play it: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Koepi_XviD.htm Sound's like a missing codec, alternatively, you can download the Kazza Lite codec pack (Full) but not both: http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm (no relation to Kazza)
Wow, I can't believe the info on the thread unbelieable, I was always under the impression that we were not even allowed to talk about anything torrent, well this is great, after clicking on all the links the info is great, the only problem is I don't understand a bit of it, damit and I wish I could, I am not complaining or faulting anyone here that is explaining, I think these mods are going way out of there way to give such advise, but like I said it's way over my head. I always read on many threads about burning or ripping movies with all these different programs, is why I always stuck with Clone and AnyDVD, absolutly the easiest way to make a copy even than I still don't understand the many features Clone has like copying the files etc first, I just copy from the disc to disc. Just the other day I copyied for the first time Madagasgar 2, I forget what site I got it from but somehow it got applied to a limewire folder or file, than I tried to use clone using the different type of files Clone uses and trying to use Windows Media Player forget it, I couldn't figure out clone either, unfortunatly I can never figure out these things reading instructions I'm a show me guy if somebody is sitting next to me showes me once and I got it. Either way it's because I'm so stupid with all this, but I still want to comment all these people that took thier time to do this for all it's members, Thanks to all even though I can't take advantage of it still you guys did a great job.
Mr. Loco, I haven't been able to update peer guardian for the past 2 days. When I tried to update yesterday, it showed that it was blocking "0" IP's. Luckily, i found the guides to go around that on here.
Discussing and providing help for torrent's is allowed, linking to anything pirate isn't but the site is ok like The Pirate Bay above. Wouldn't name them but don't think that matter's unless it's a program, OS, etc. Torrent's only seem complicated at first, the term's moreso, but after a while, you'll wonder what the fuss was.
Mistycat is correct.... from the rules: @fred Limewire can be full of demons, I'd stay away from it. Learn to use these torrents if you can, they are more reliable and safer AFAIK. @rtm I use uTorrents ipfilter because I'm on Vista. I know there is a workaround to get PG2 working properly with Vista, but I can't ever keep it working properly...no problem updating, it just doesn't run.
LOCOENG, yes I agree, I have it in my system hardly ever use it, have read to many bad reports about it, what I don't understand is this, if I remember correctly, I was on some site about torrernt and never used it before, actually it was from one of the AD forums now that I think about it, so out of interest I clicked on a link and some info came up about torrent and movies I could download, I never downloaded a movie from the internet I don't know how that works, any copy I ever made was if I bought a movie and I made a copy with my clone, so I decited to give it a shot. Madagasgar cought my eye so I went ahead, about an hour later it was complete, but it landed on a saved limewire folder, how I don't know, beats the hell out of me, than of coarse I tried to view it with clone which was a joke, now after reading this thread I can see why whatever I tried didn't work, it looks like one needs to do all of these different thing to view or download it, I'll wait till I capture one of the kids from the neighborhood I'm sure one of them will know. I already own the movie it's not about seeing it but I need to know how it works, I always hear people mention things about torrent, something I need to learn.
Just look at what size the file is...probably an avi weighing in around 700MB. You can watch it with MPC or VLC and you convert it to DVD with ConvertXtoDVD or DVD Flick. Easy peasy. As for saving in a limewire folder, you have to go into the options of utorrent or whatever your preferred application is and choose a target folder for completed torrents.
@Loco I'm using XP Media Center 2005 on my desxtop, and clicked to update the list. When it finished downloading, it showed "0" IP's blocked. I was finally able to update it properly this morning. I saw the guide what to do when peer guardian shows blocking "0" IP's, how to get an updated list.
