Want to download movies. Plz help!!!
 

Hello there,

Here's hoping you can help me and put a stop to the divorce proceedings ;) :p

My B/F has been trying to d/load a movie (not sure if I'm allowed to say what, so I won't)

Anyway I've been having a look on the forum I've also tried help.

What I need to know is what exactly am I looking for? (I don't mean which movie.....lol...) I mean how big should it be and if it does start connecting how long will it take, I'm using DSL (on one of the things he tried to d/load it said 1:03:06:37 - the numbers were keep changing and the d/load speed kept going to 0 kb's or something.

What does WMV, AVI, and MPG mean?? :confused:

I saw a post somewhere which said if you don't share, some others won't share with u, even if you see their stuff in the results. We do share about 30 odd files, happen this isnt enough.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated,

Lindy x :)

Try to downld from multiple sources if you can. They're the search results that have numbers under the # column.

It depends on what you want to do with the movie. Watch it on computer, connect your computer to TV or burn the movie to CD or DVD. For watching on computer probably any format is OK. For burning to disk either avi, mpg/mpeg are the best.
(WMV=Windows Media Video, AVI=Audio Video Interleave which is a commonly used format & comes in different variations, MPEG/MPG=Mpeg; Mpeg type 1 is used for VCD, MPeg2 for SVCD & DVD. There's also MPeg4/DivX which may be camouflaged as an avi file.)

Most decent quality movies have been reduced to CD size or even split into parts for CD's. So you're looking at over 500 MB for a reasonable quality movie to burn & watch on TV. Ignore those that are a small size. Many of those are spam - advertisements but they show up in searches duplicating your search.

The figure 1 at the beginning of that how much time represents 24 hours or one day. The next 2 no.'s = hours, etc.

If you're uploading it's certainly easier to get better results. It helps you to connect to many other people. Sharing over 30 is quite ok. Over 50 might be a bit better.

Doing another search for the topic can help to find more sources. Remember there's people who go on/offline continuously so this can affect search & downld results.

Here's some hints if you haven't seen them before: A well set-up LW can start to automatically continue its dwnlding after it's settled down perhaps 2 out of 3 times you open LW. Optimising LW & Maximising Uplds & Dwnlds A (1st post only) & also Part B which is even better & last & least are search & dwnld hints. The latter one I've been thinking about re-writing for some time. That's just for playing it safe. eg- I show all speeds & qualities.

eg: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...028#post116028

Thankyou
 

Many thanks again,

I really appreciate the time you took to reply.

I will be having a look at the links b4 my B/F gets back from Karate (Hah, he doesn't scare me.....lol..... :p to him........)

I don't know that much about computers, but he knows even less (is that possible?? :confused: )
He's blaming not being able to get music on us getting WinXP. (He can get music)
I had to install LW again and it was a newer version too.
It had changed that's why I asked a while back about saving stuff.


Blimey, sorry for waffling on...lol...
Thanks again for all your help

Regards, Lindy x

Okies,

I've emailed my ISP to find out my connection speed, (can't remember if I knew it to start with)

If I'm using Freeserve (Wanadoo) broadband what do you think roughly my connection speed might be.

I understand ppl's may be different but It may help until I get a reply of me ISP, (LOL u reply quicker:D )

Regards, lindy xx

IP check: http://www.whatismyip.com/

Speed Tests: http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp

http://www.broadbandreports.com/stest

http://specials.zdnet.co.uk/misc/ban...eedtest50.html (immediate)

http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/speedtest/ (choose your location)

Most will give similar results but they will also give you a better idea by doing more than one test. :)

Ahem*, hey sorry to bother you again, but when you goto filter/ hosts and put the numbers 192.168.*.* AND 10.*.*.* in. Is that exactly how u do it or do u put the whole lotta numbers that are included in the filters bit and do you need " " around them :confused: <---(thick more like)

And this bit underlined, is it in the right order?? Cos I'm not sure what u mean (sorry)

I make this suggestion to filter out all the host who have incorrectly forwarded their private IP address on the network. These IP addresses are NOT routable and you will NOT be able to connect and download content from these hosts so ignore results from these guys. if

4. Go to tools/options/filters/keywords Filter out search results containing !!! <----what are the 3 exclamation marks for??

Most likely viruses or porn files emulating your search queries.

OK, I am having problems and I am a bit of a novice, so if anyone can help I would be most grateful. I can download fine and all seems well then I go to library and cannot open or view anything, it either comes up with unknown error with audio file.

If I have picked modem speed, does this mean I can only download modem speed files?

I have just managed to download an audio file for modem, but cannot get others can anyone help?

Thankyou

Terri

terri2403: This will give you a good idea about connection type settings: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...034#post114034

You can downld any speed files no matter what - but make sure you share files. Some people filter out those that share less than a certain no. of files so although they'll show up in your search results you won't be able to downld from them if you're sharing less than their prescribed no. of files.

As far as audio goes, keep in mind the riaa & T3 sources & also make a note of file size v's bit-rate: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=28801

Here's some hints: A well set-up LW can start to automatically continue its dwnlding after it's settled down perhaps 2 out of 3 times you open LW. Optimising LW & Maximising Uplds & Dwnlds A (1st post only!) & also Part B which is even better & last & least are search & dwnld hints. The latter one I've been thinking about re-writing for some time. That's just for playing it safe. eg- I show all speeds & qualities.

eg: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...028#post116028


Lindyloo: I haven't finished my 30 hour shift yet but missed your post temporarily. :)

For keyword filters see: This LINK! (Click on me)

(IF you want to do xtra reading on the topic see above & also: Quality of Content on the Network , & also Fake Movies & Why , & also A Curious thing Happened... & there's more if you want it.?)

Thankyou so much, I will see if I have any success.



Teresa

Wahayy
 

Hello again Lord of the rings,
(I've just typed up a reply to your last post and I swear I sent it, but musn't have, sorry if it turns up somewhere....:D )

Anyway thanks for the tip on configuring LW, worked a treat. Managed to download a movie in about 6 hrs.

Thing is I couldn't play it cos of missing codecs (I know....lol....look on the forum) I did look on the forum and also used web help when I got the msg about codecs. In fact I've been to that many places I can't remember where I got Divx codec v5.2 from (this enabled me to get a picture but still no sound) now though I'm not getting the codec error msg so I'm not getting the web help. The movie was an avi thingy so could u gis a clue as to what codec may be missing??

Many thanks again,
Lindy xx

Decent codecs: http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.html

Also have another backup player as well (as well as divx player) called VLC & is free & has built-in codecs & plays all but the odd wmv file: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ (choose the nearest mirror site.)

VLC is not the prettiest of players & its controls are a bit flimsy but it plays most things & that's the important thing!

Hello again,

I got VLC (even b4 u told me :p lol)

I had also been to http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.html but wasn't sure what to click on next...DOH!!!
Never mind VLC works so that'll have to do.

The funny thing is my B/F said the movie he downloaded worked on win media player. The one I did for him said it had no kb's (or something like that, so obviously that wouldn't play) I think this was in the incomplete folder tho. Could this be because it hadn't fully downloaded and I should have just clicked resume?? Too late now anyway I got rid....lol....
It seems the one I was trying to play was the one he downloaded (I tried to download number one and he downloaded number two) which had actually played for him, and I remember him showing me it when I came home from work. STRANGE!!!!!

Never mind as I said VLC works and I'll try downloading the movie again:rolleyes:

Many thanks, Lindy:) :)

Any file you see in the incomplete folder is just that; incomplete! Once it reaches 100% downlded then LW will physically move the file to the LW downld folder (whatever name you gave it or the default is Shared files.) Or you can check a recently fully downlded folder via the LW library by selecting the Saved Files folder ...

Thanks :) :)

Thanks! Do yo have any of those to give away? :D

Hee Hee, you like??

I sell,

B.O.G.O.F................Buy one get one free. :D

Do u mean share as files or you just want some off me??

Either way I got a few.

Also I've been reading with great interest some of the links you sent me. Autogenerated spam results. I tried putting gjkdgh (well not that exactly, but nonsense all the same) and I gotta coupla results the first time. I then went and filtered out jpeg etc, then got no results. Then I removed jpeg etc and still got no results. I am going to go back and filter keywords again tho.

I just need to ask, do I put .jpeg or just jpeg (without the dot) it's just in some places ppl hve put:-
.jpeg or *.jpeg (with an asterix even...lol)

I know I sound thick (I am...lol.....no really) I'm just not sure how to word it.

And last but by no means least the prize for talking (writing) utter crapola is..........................me......hooray......*A pplause*......lol.

Oh sorry I meant to ask. I know how to put on a signature but how do I put a pic there too?

Thanks 'n' hugs, Lindy x

I don't know too much about that. If it's an Avatar then it must be very small (that's an image that goes under your name like my penguins - from real video by the way.) Do that under Edit Options in your User cp. Or for personal signature umm ... Under your Edit Profile. I'm also not sure about that. I received some advice about it but forgot about it. I could read my old pm's.

Okay, Cheers x

Oh right, see what you mean.

No not an avatar. I seen someone had jumping dolphins (under a line after their post.) Signature said "Thanks for all the files" then these real cool dolphins Awwwww :D

I'll see if I can find the person and ask

Cheers, Lindy x

That was peerless: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=33051
Cute kitties:cool:

My sister's two siamese were over here for a month whilst my sister was overseas until a fortnight ago. Don't know what happened to my girlfriend's ***** during that time! :D

Thanx fabion :) :) appreciate that xxx

And as 4 U Lord, EEEEEEEEHHHHH!!!!! That's sooooooooooooo bad........lol

I've just thought when you said, do I have any of those to give away. Did you mean the pics or the cat's themselves? ....hah hah :p

I'm refraining from using the word *****......lol

Lindy x

Down to heart I'm an absolute cat lover!