Good morning to all in Gnutella Land. Finally, after many months of my quest I am downloading movies. Thank you to Limewire Pro. They are not DL very fast, so I think I am still missing a trick or two. However my burning question for the day is: How do I burn the movies I have DLed to Disc so that my main CD player, hooked upto my TV will play them? I queried the manufacturer and they told me they must be in DVD format. I am running a Toshiba P4, 3.0 Gig, Windows XP for Media Center, huge HD, DSL connection. Thanks for the help.

Peerless, I hope you get this and asnwer it. Seems we got off on the wrong foot a couple of months ago. My apologies. I realize I am probably in the wrong place again, and you may or may not move this post. Oh well. What can I say. I gave up on LW Pro for quite a while. The couple of conversion and dvd burning programs make great dvds for my computer, too bad they will not play on a dvd player that is supposed to play dvd-r, dvd-rw, cd-r, mp3, etc. Which is what mine is uspposed to do. I called Funai and they said it iwll not. Customer service, however, sent me a email saying it will. Who is right and if it can be done, then how? Please in layman's terms. Download speeds. I read in the forums where folks are upset because it takes them 30-60 mins, with a dsl connection, to DL a 700 mb file. My dsl runs at T1 speed, 150, and it takes me days to dl 700 mb. I am sharing. What ist he deal? PIV 3.0 XP machine. I hope you will help me. That video help.com site, well, I just don't know what I am lookig for. I'm not buying a program until I know which one is right. I want to be to convert to dvd-r so my player will play the file on my TV. the simpler the better. well, thanks for listening. If you don't answer, I understand. This is my night to blow off steam. Cheers to all.

Just a question from a non-Windoze user: doesn't Nero make Video CD's? Like, you drag an .avi file in it and choose to make a Video CD and it burns just that: a disc that wil be read by most DVD players (although not necessarily a DVD-R). I'm pretty sure I saw that function on Nero last time I was in front of a PC.
As for the dld speeds, there are many possible answers: either you haven't configured your LW for optimal performance (hope that it's this one), or your ISP is reducing or otherwise controlling P2P traffic. There may be other answers but my mind cannot function enough right now to do something so demanding as remembering stuff...

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Thanks for answering. I suppose I am hard headed and keep trying to use the Drag n Drop program that came with my pc. I don't know if Nero automatically converts and then burns, but I will find out. Something is limiting my transfer speeds. When I call the ISP about it they tell me everything is great with my conneciton and nothing on their end is limiting it. So, it must be limewire. I did OK when I was using Bearshare and WinMx. I've heard so much good about LW Pro that I wanted to give it a try. I suppose I will just keep trying. Where do I look for limiting factors as far as LW goes? Paris, what a beautiful city, I've been there many, many times.

LW's options would gbe a good place to start.
What have you set as the maximum number of simultaneous dlds (under Downloads) and Upload Bandwidth (under Uploads->Basic)? Also check how many upload slots you have.

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Our best years have passed us by
The Golden Age Of Leather"
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I'm not even sure what a SVCD is... I know that S stands for Sooper, but what does it do? Fly (lame joke huh?)?

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VCD = MPEG-1
DVD = MPEG-2
SVCD = MPEG-2

i.e. a SVCD is basically a DVD burned onto CDs. It's afaik not an industry standart like VCD or DVD.

Basically?
A DVD on CD... I figure it either has a lowered image quality or no menus because how the hell do you squish all that info into 750Megs at best?

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Yeah, a lowered image quality and the DVDs are usually split up into two or three parts (i.e. the data isn't squished onto a single CD).

The sizes you were referring to are:
VCD VideoCD (1152kbps, mp2, 352x280)
SVCD SuperVCD (2.5mbps, mp2, 480x480)
CVD CVD (2.5mbps, mp2, 352x280)
DVD DVD ( 3mbps-8mbps, ac3/dts/mp2/pcm, 720x576PAL/720x486NTSC)

In some ways vcd format reminds me of web format, although there is a diff. But on TVs we don't quite notice the diff quite so much due to the way Standard TVs load the data. (Web quality looks crook however~!!!)

Of course HD video hasn't reached the dvd market as of yet as far as I know (let's ignore the cheaper/lesser res 16:9 versions at the moment.) Perhaps if/after the 'Blue light' spectrum dvd (compared to the red) format comes out it might be a better thing for the various HD formats. Commercial dvd's started out at about 4mbps. Are we getting cheated here?! The technology is here for HQ dvd & formats of HD viewing, but we 'MUST' wait for the marketers to finish their staged out practice of 'just a bite at a time' process. eg: After all Mac had a 1 GHZ sitting around when their G4 4-500Hz had just reached the market (it was 1998 when I read an interview with an Apple exec.). It took a few yrs before we saw it! HD cameras for the domestic market have only recently reached the marketplace. Personally I'd wait a while until we see the improved versions instead of the initial rough, low-level, no-luxury versions. After all, that's what marketing is all about. I'm getting off the topic now.
Depending upon the softw you're using, some will be able to do a reasonable job w/o losing 'too much' visible quality. But some will not do such a good job! Ansd some do squish them onto one CD. Some softs do relinquish the menus to help reduce size. dvd burners & players are almost dirt cheap now so why not go out & get them instead of compromising upon your visual (& audible) enjoyment ... either for comp. or TV.

Many dvd players 'claim' to be able to play all types of formats & media, but are more brand sensitive than you might think!!! My cheap player can play everything I throw at it, but my brother who brags about his player that cost 2& half times more (& could play all formats; everything) could not play all the same media/brands of media! I use Pioneer (6) as the newer G5's use, & TDK/Verbatim media. There's varying opinions about choice of media depening upon your area & its avalability & price (certainly some brands to stay clear of no matter the area!!!). DVD players are not as good as the brand, it's a good idea (as I did) to walk in to a retail display area & try out the various formats & media that you use! The same goes for VCDs / SVCDs. If you're having problems with your set-top VCD player, try other brands of media. Otherwise follow the above suggestion. Personally, I was looking for recognition of all/most medias & formats incl. dvds I'd authored myself.