Now i know it is highly illegal , but i am having an absolute nightmare. I must be the only person in the world that cant download a movie and burn it to disc. I have seen loads of threads on it , but cant find it now. i have a mac (intel ) and use utorrent. Every movie i down load is an avi or wmv file and i dont understand how to encode it transfer it or cock all. I now have 20 bits of software that all do different things but it still dont work. i have toast 10, ffmpeg,aiseesoft, you name it.remember it is for a mac!

idiots guide to this would help......if i need software that has to be free too as i have no money , hence down loading films

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pugless
Phase 1 GTI 6 1996-1997
Subaru Impreza GB270 2007-2008
rare spiderman comics
same day international courier

Try release log or zerosec, just search them in google! They will give you rapidshare links or hotfile links to download, their normally in better file types. Also it's a proper file copy direct rather than a torrent!

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Ex Astor 6 owner

Also an Ex owner of a Bianca 6

Now an ex owner of a 2005 9-3 2.0T 210bhp Aero Swedish Saloon thing!! Soon to be 250bhp....

Now driving Mk5 Golf GTTdi, mile muncher

But still live for the 306

I see 2 fails:

torrents

macs

i think the program i used to use to convert back to normal dvd format was called winavi, downloaded free through utorrent again, lol

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andrew315rawson@live.co.uk
Moonstone phase 7 gti6
My Project thread: http://www.306gti6.com/forum/showthread.php?id=119992&page=1

Buy a cheap DVD player with DivX capabilities and it'll recognise almost every file type.

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2006 Performance Blue Mondeo ST TDCI
1999 Black 306 Rallye
1991 Lazer Green 205 1.9 GTi
2003 Blue Focus RS
1999 White 306 Rallye
1992 Red 205 1.9 GTi
1988 Red 205 1.6 GTi

macs are ace you just need lots of RAM and they start to behave then.

never knew what the difference was betewwn macs and pc`s. can anybody explain?

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andrew315rawson@live.co.uk
Moonstone phase 7 gti6
My Project thread: http://www.306gti6.com/forum/showthread.php?id=119992&page=1

In short hardware wise there's nothing different now. A Mac used to have it's own style of hardware, prefering RISC (reduced instruction set computer) archetecture over the CISC (complex instruction set computer) which meant that the ddata travelling round a MAC was steamlined by the chipset on the mainboard and then processed using a basic CPU. On a PC the CPU had all the work to do, hence they ran hotter and were noisy. Now you can get the same effect from the current rangte of Intel based kit Apple just don't bother. They've stopped designing their own hardware standards and just buy in the processors from Intel. This means that a Mac will run Windows quite well (though the difference in mouse/keyboard is a bind)

The Opperating system is the only difference now. The Mac OS is based on Unix and is pretty solid. It's still reasonably restrictive and desiging software for it is harder than a Windows enviroment, meaning most software is still designed for Windows. Most companies outside of the artistic sector will still use PCs for this reason and that of cost, a Mac is a substantial amount more than the equivilent spec PC. They have some nice features (the screans are always ahead of those on a PC) but cost is a big issue.

Fans of the Mac will bang on, almost constantly, about how reliable it is and how you rarely get a problem, which is pretty acurate. They never seem to mention, however, that if you do have an issue it's always difficult to solve and you can rarely bodge your way around a problem.

I've owned Mac's in the past, I would probably use them over PCs as Helen is a musician and that would be her preference, for home it's pretty much equel. At the moment I work in IT with PCs so I go with whatever I'm given as a home system (HP Elitebook at the moment, it's quite lovely!!)

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You didn't see anything. Right?

Quality will suck if you've converted them so that you can fit 4 or 5 on a disc. When you say disc though, do you mean dvd or cd? If you try to put more than one on a single CD (700m you'll be compressing the video so much that a large proportion of the quality is lost.

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Team Jenvey 45

ANyone use TVersity to stream at all?

I stream from the home server to the xbox downstairs but not 100% sure on which codec is best to use. TVersity sometimes tries to transcode on the fly but can't keep up, especially on HD files. I'd rather have everything in the correct format ready to stream beforehand.

is technically everything right , just recheck and play

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Sam Chn

LOL! Are you on crack??

An 802.11n WiFi network in good signal conditions is more than capable of streaming HD content.

For a typical downloaded 1080p downsampled BD rip you only need about 1.3 MB/s. If a WiFi N network can't provide that then something is seriously wrong.

I get enough throughput on my WiFi network to stream raw BD rips. (~5.6 MB/s)

(Anyway, I'm sure Fletch worked something out in the 23 months between his question and your answer...)

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Rich

All these hours you spent downloading, all i do is pay £10 a month and get 2x lovefilm DVD/Blurays at once

Then again our broadband is max 2 mbps so it's just too slow for downloading anything moviewise!

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VW Golf GT TDI 115, 100k nooooooooooooooooooooo!