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3 May 2004, 17:01
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Chief over all Monkeys
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mrl was right (bit torrent)
bit torrent turned out to be better than dc++. I realised that part of my problem with BT was port forwarding and that was the reason i was getting such low connection
question now:
how to view movies before they are downloaded to check legitimacy. I hate downloading movies with foreign languages dubbed over them, and shit quality movies.
VLC works for downloading movies/episodes that download in order (kazaa dc++ etc..) but BT downloads all over the place and there is nothing more annoying than downloading a non english/good quality movie.
Advice?
Last edited by Zar; 3 May 2004 at 17:08.
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3 May 2004, 17:06
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Held Back
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Re: mrl was right (bit torrent)
Best bet is to check the comments of other leachers, if it's a good enough torrent supplier, otherwise do like me, and double check by playing the fragments of the file, by the time you have 60% you can usually view sections, it's just getting that first 1% at the start of the file that gives bother.
Not much but, is better than waiting around for hours on that last 5% that no one else seems to have.
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3 May 2004, 17:09
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Re: mrl was right (bit torrent)
Get a decent source.
I've never had anything not be what i expected it to be and that even counts for stuff downloaded from Suprnova and other public trackers.
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3 May 2004, 17:10
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Re: mrl was right (bit torrent)
Well, for a start dependant on your client you can change the options to not lock the file you are downloading so it can still be read by movie players etc (which the avipreview tool that comes with kazaa lite I've found to be the best for this purpose). Also you can instruct the client to finish allocating parts that are almost completely downloaded. The main problem is in the fact that often it doesn't download the chunks in linear format rather as you said all over the place, so the movie player will probably reject it as a invalid movie format.
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3 May 2004, 17:17
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Re: mrl was right (bit torrent)
suprnova is ace, some guy uploaded the first series of fist of fun the other day
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3 May 2004, 17:30
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Re: mrl was right (bit torrent)
Quote:
Originally Posted by the_dastardley_chihuahua
suprnova is ace, some guy uploaded the first series of fist of fun the other day
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3 May 2004, 18:20
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Damn Dog
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Re: mrl was right (bit torrent)
simon quinlank
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3 May 2004, 18:22
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Re: mrl was right (bit torrent)
Ragnarak's advice is sound!
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3 May 2004, 18:56
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Re: mrl was right (bit torrent)
you will also need peerguardian if you dont want the police to BUST YOUR ASS
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3 May 2004, 19:05
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Chief over all Monkeys
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Re: mrl was right (bit torrent)
Quote:
Originally Posted by JammyJim
you will also need peerguardian if you dont want the police to BUST YOUR ASS
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very very very very very slim chance the police will bust my ass. I'll take that risk
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3 May 2004, 20:45
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: mrl was right (bit torrent)
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Originally Posted by JammyJim
you will also need peerguardian if you dont want the police to BUST YOUR ASS
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They never will, it's too low level. It's not like anyone on a BT has the capactiy to serve hundreds or thousands of people over a long period of time.
ps.
In a role reversal, I'm going to be using DC++ much more next year because of the college hub
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3 May 2004, 22:02
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Godfather
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Re: mrl was right (bit torrent)
well
even if they dont.
when i ran peerguardian whilst downloading a copy of a universal studios film i had on VHS (i wanted a copy on my hdd too) Universal studios tried to access my pc 35 times.
i suggest you download it. you can still recieve letters from the studios involved asking you to cease and desist etc.
http://bluetack.co.uk/pw.html
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3 May 2004, 22:08
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Re: mrl was right (bit torrent)
I've not downloaded anything with bittorrent before, but the standard way to deal with stupid windows filelocking is to create a copy of the file while its being downloaded, then open the copy.
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