Wouldn't it be great if you could torrent labor so you wouldn't have to pay for it?
On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Jim March wrote:
> Yeah, what you have is the "pointer" to all the bits of the file. Note the size of the .torrent file - WAY too small to be the actual movie...most of which are 700megs.
>
> Once you get the movie, it'll generally be a .mpeg or .avi or one of a few other video formats. Once in a while it'll be a .RAR archive, in which case in most Linux distros you're OK - open the archive, double-click on the lowest-numbered file inside, it will pack 'em all into the actual video format file.
>
> Next, why burn 'em to DVD? Play 'em right there on your computer if you want...
>
> Jim
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jordan Aberle <jordan.aberle@gmail.com> wrote:
> A .torrent is just a script file to tell bittorrent where to download
> the file from. It sounds like you need to read a bit how torrents
> work.
>
> -Jordan
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Eric - A <ericallen3@juno.com> wrote:
> > it's a *.torrent and it's 28kb and I can't play it from the desktop
> >
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> > A fully legal freely licensed movie of course ;)
> > The first few questions are what is the format of said movie, what is
> > the file size, and can you play it on your desktop?
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Eric - A <ericallen3@juno.com> wrote:
> >> I downloaded a movie torrent, now how do I burn it to a DVD so I can watch it?
> >>
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