So I downloaded the last season of Friends from here http://crystalshare.com/season.asp?id=27



this is the specs it gives:



Year 2003

Language EN

Source DVD

Ripper FoV

Video Stream

Format XviD

Resolution 576 x 432

Aspect Ratio 4:3

FPS 25

Audio Stream

Format AC3

Channels 2

Bitrate 192 kbps



I downloaded the xvid codec and still can't play it. Any ideas?



Me

 

whoa how does that work man? do i need to sign up or something?

 

This is my understanding. there are these files called torrents and they sorta...hmmm...point to all the people who are sharing the file. you kinda jump into this download loop. people put torrents up pointing to certain files. you open the torrent and then start downloading. You need some bit torrent software to download them. The only thing is (for me anyway) it alwasy seems like a challenge to get some of this **** to play since they are encoded using God knows what and you have to hunt down codecs and filters all over the place. Which is what I am doing now.

 

so do you have this torrent downloading program you can send me?

 

search for and download G3 Torrent. according to a buddy of mine, that's the fastest one.

 

Try downloading DivX that might work. I know it worked for me.

 

Downloaded the divx player and still no go. used BSPlayer, divx player, zoom player and none of them like it. Seems from the title of the file it's xvid encoded using some FOV encoder. I have the xvid codec installed already and the dam thing still fails to run.

 

[quote name='ApneaBlue' date='Jul 18 2005, 10:41 PM']Downloaded the divx player and still no go. used BSPlayer, divx player, zoom player and none of them like it. Seems from the title of the file it's xvid encoded using some FOV encoder. I have the xvid codec installed already and the dam thing still fails to run.


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This may sound crazy, but try Windows Media Player.



If you have the correct codec (XviD in this case), it should play in any media player on that computer. In theory, of course.

 

Tried WMP 9 and WMP Classic

 

[quote name='ApneaBlue' date='Jul 18 2005, 10:46 PM']Tried WMP 9 and WMP Classic


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Link to the Xvid thing you downloaded? I'm not convinced you have the CODEC installed on your computer...