Newb With BitTorrent

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-03-09 06:43pm

Okay, I downloaded bittorrent, and I downloaded a video, but for some reason it wont play sound. Can anyone help me out?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-03-09 06:44pm

What does this have to do with torrents? You've done the torrent part, but you don't have the right codec for the video file. You could tell us what sort it is so we can direct you if you want!

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2007-03-09 07:18pm

YUO FAIL AT THE INTARDNET

Serously download a popular codec pack.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2007-03-09 07:30pm

Download ffdshow.

DevNull · Post by **DevNull** » 2007-03-09 08:41pm

My advice would be to play it in VLC player, it plays everything even stuff using really obscure codecs, I haven't had a video file it can't play yet.

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-03-09 09:00pm

Thanks guys, especially you Dev, yours got it to work.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2007-03-10 02:00pm

DevNull wrote:My advice would be to play it in VLC player, it plays everything even stuff using really obscure codecs, I haven't had a video file it can't play yet.

VLC is fine and dandy until you run into two things:

1) The interface could seriously use some work. For example, clicking on the position bar should skip the video to that point and not just some arbitrary amount of time forward. Whichever genius made that design decision ought to be soundly beaten about the skull.

2) VLC completely shits itself over soft-subtitles. Seriously, if two people are talking at the same time, it'd be nice if the subtitles weren't all smashed together into the same line making an illegible mess.

For these reasons I prefer Media Player Classic combined with DefilerPak.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-03-10 05:49pm

Uraniun235 wrote:2) VLC completely shits itself over soft-subtitles. Seriously, if two people are talking at the same time, it'd be nice if the subtitles weren't all smashed together into the same line making an illegible mess.

Hell yes. VLC is an easy drop-in solution, but it has serious problems (don't get me started on playing network files on a Mac, the buffering is absurd) and nobody on their forums likes to talk about any of them. Hurrah!

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-03-10 10:45pm

Get CCCP. Combined Community Codec Pack, it has every codec I knew and more I didn't, and it comes with Media Player Classic. Which, IMHO, is the best media player I've ever used. It just works, doesn't slow shit down when it's paused or even moved around the screen, it's very nice.

I feel nice today, so:

http://www.cccp-project.net/