RE: Another noobie question, bit torrent this time....

["Rob Mouser" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nope, nothing special needed to play a torrent file.

There are a number of different codecs for AVI. Is it perhaps a Divx? This
is quite a popular format for torrents as it has good compression keeping
the file size small. www.divx.com.

I had one the other day where I just could not find the codec I needed.
There are a few analysis tools out there that will read your AVI and tell
you which codec you need. Eg http://avicodec.duby.info/ Some more
info here
also http://www.jmcgowan.com/avi.html


That's about as much help as I can be, I'm sure someone with more knowledge
may be able to enlighten further.

HTH

Rob



-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
White, Peter
Sent: 07 May 2005 19:59
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Another noobie question, bit torrent this time....

There was a power cut last week whilst I was in Cyprus, meaning my TiVo
missed 24.  So I decided to delve into the murky world of bit torrent, and
after a couple of days managed to download the full file.  However, it
won't
play (it's an AVI) on QuickTime (Mac or XP) or Media player.  Both report
that they cannot find the correct codec.  Is there something else I need to
do to a file downloaded via Bit torrent before it's playable?  The file
came
from btefnet....


Pete



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