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Neil Appleby 
Joined: 11 Feb 1998
Location: Melbourne
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Here's hoping the computer heads here can help out an expat desperate for my weekly replay and other stuff such as White Line Fever and On the Couch.
Joel advised me to come here and ask the question.
I'm very literate with audio downloading and recording on my Mac, but video I've never needed till now.
I'm a paid-up Bigpond/AFL member, but the replays are screened in tiny unadjustable screens and it is just about unusable.
Now last night The Pain posted a link here and I was able to watch the entire Coll/Scum game on a large screen.
I asked if this was possible every week and was told...'yes' plus everything else besides.
This is incredible news, but then people advise about demonoids, aussietorrents, clients, invitations etc etc.....and my eyes glaze over and my brain shuts down.
My question is: is someone in here able to explain the steps in plain, everyday English? By the way.....assume I know nothing and start from there!
I'm sure there are many people who'd like to learn this stuff.
Hoping someone can help. |
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Hugor 
Joined: 19 Apr 2004
Location: Perth
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| On a PC the replays are played thru windows media player by default though that depends on how you set your system up. I just double click on the screen and this goes to full screen. I would try to work out which media player your Apple is using when its playing streaming media and find out the shortcut key to engaging full screen mode. You should be able to get this thru the help files. I suspect your system uses quicktime as its default player so try the shortcut (usually alt-something or shift-something to tell it to go full screen. |
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Joel 
Joined: 23 Mar 1999
Location: Mornington Peninsula
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Important: Remember, you can support Nick's and buy dvds through sportsvideo if you want the best quality.
NOTE: Torrents are not streaming video. I also do not endorse downloading copyrighted material.
Torrents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent
| Quote: | | A .torrent file is used in peer-to-peer technology, specifically in a BitTorrent client program. A .torrent file is used to download other files. |
Peer to peer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer
Neil, to put it simply, torrents are another way for people to share files. You can find a centrally located link - a torrent - which you can click on.
When you click on it, you use a program like Azureus, or Utorrent to download what you want. The hard bit is finding the file link (torrent), so you can download it. Now, the actual file you download is split into a heaps of different pieces, so in effect you download the one file from many different people. There is no central source.
First, download a program like Azureus or UTorrent.
Azureus: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
However, you will need to setup your modem specially for it to work. Once you have done that, let us know what modem you have (ie. brand and model), and we should be able to point out a link that can guide you to set it up.
For reference, popular torrent sites include:
* http://www.mininova.org/
* http://www.araditracker.com/
* http://www.demonoid.com/
* http://isohunt.com/
* http://aussietorrents.com/
* http://diwana.org/browse.php
* http://members.optusnet.com.au/spook182/sites/cfc2006/cfc2006.html
For some of these sites you won't be able to just simply register, you'll need to be specially invited by someone who has an "invite" to give you. If you ask, someone might be able to help out when that is the case.
Note: on some torrent sites, ie. araditracker, you must also share (seed) files to others. If you failed to do this, you get banned from that site. Other torrent sites don't make you do this, but often aren't as fast to download from as the sites that make you share.
Also, a good place to seek info, or ask questions: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-threads.cfm?f=87 |
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The Machine
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Joel
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| Oi...I already said that. Hehe. |
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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| What did you mean by that? That is "" |
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Neil Appleby
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| Ok guys, I've downloaded Azuria and await your instructions. |
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The Machine
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ok now you can visit a torrent site as joel has stated above.... we'll do a test run.... visit
http://members.optusnet.com.au/spook182/sites/cfc2006/cfc2006.html
Next to the collingwood vs carlton game click on site 1.
This should automatically download the torrent....just click open no need to save.
When finished downloading it should automatically open Azureus.
After it searches for seeders it should begin to download. It can take up to 4-5 hrs to download some games so just let it run in the background.
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Like Nicks, why not donate
http://magpies.net/nick/bb/fundraising.htm |
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Joel
Joined: 23 Mar 1999
Location: Mornington Peninsula
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| You may, however, run into some troubles. Some times you have to enable port forwarding on your modem. Let us know how you go. |
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The Prototype 
Paint my face with a good-for-nothin smile.
Joined: 23 Apr 2003
Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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Joel
Joined: 23 Mar 1999
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| Yeah, what Dave said. |
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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| Uh. What about it? |
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Hugor
Joined: 19 Apr 2004
Location: Perth
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| uTorrent has help files to get you through your routers firewall. Basically step by step instructions for every model of router on how to generate a static IP address and open the port for torrent downloading. Worth checking that out if having trouble downloading. |
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Neil Appleby
Joined: 11 Feb 1998
Location: Melbourne
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Full of hope I did as suggested but all I got was a binary file which opened as an excel doc. full of gibberish.
Next step?
Cheers. |
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Joel
Joined: 23 Mar 1999
Location: Mornington Peninsula
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| What did you do exactly. Step by step? |
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