Tracker's and downloading!

[daozen]

If you want to download movies etc you will probably need a codec pack to view them - http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_lite_codec_pack.htm
Lots of people who think torrents are crap don't have the correct codecs.

You dont need codec packs if you have a decent media player installed such as VLC.

Well if all these hundreds of millions of people define "not crap" as waiting days for a file which can be got in a few minutes, then that's up to them. And when they finally get the file to find its a fake or a porn movie, then I am sure they are very pleased

And when the IP's start to filter peer to peer traffic to give it low priority, then I suppose this will be even less crap?

I dont wait days for my files and if you know where to look you never find its something else. Besides someones always downloaded it before you so read the comments, very simple.

ISPs have a job on their hands with filtering torrent traffic due to apps such as iplayer which use it. Besides which thats what encryption is all about.

 

[holmslaw]

If you want to download movies etc you will probably need a codec pack to view them - http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_lite_codec_pack.htm
Lots of people who think torrents are crap don't have the correct codecs.

You dont need codec packs if you have a decent media player installed such as VLC.

Yea, I should have mentioned VLC, but the purpose of my post was to advise people who think movie torrents are crap that it's more likely to be a codec problem.

 

[Homesafe]

i'm all encrypted and still it's slow,, and it's beginning to pee me right off.

edited to add can i phone BT and tell them to help or is that stupid.

 

[Homesafe]

iv just asked BT to do a check on speed and they said i'm getting full 6000k .
the trackers on the torrents are just trying to update all the time.

 

[daozen]

What tracker is it?

 

[Homesafe]

the trackers are , demonoid / quorum / torrentbox / openbitorrent /

spanishtracker, but they seem to keep saying update in 3m45s, for eg.

 

[^woody^]

the purpose of my post was to advise people who think movie torrents are crap that it's more likely to be a codec problem.

What have codecs got to do with downloading?

The file will download irrespective of what the file is, or in the case of media, what the media file is.

So that does not reflect on the crapness of torrents

Use Mediainfo ( http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en ) to automatically check files for the correct codec and it directs you to the sites to download any codec which the file needs. Its a very small program which automatically checks a media file when you try to open it

 

[^woody^]

iv just asked BT to do a check on speed and they said i'm getting full 6000k .

You could have done that from one of the many on-line speed tests to tell you that.

Torrents are crap, fullstop.

Its the way they work. You are not direct downloading, but going through many servers all over the world and all these little chunks of data make slow progress, as everyone queues up for their bits ... or bytes

You will get some joy with a very popular smallish files (like Top 10 songs), or with just a couple of other users with fast connections ..... but otherwise, there are just too many obstacles to the data getting through.

When I used emule or utorrent, the maximum speed I was getting was about 130 Kb/s, but the average was about 60 Kb/s. And then it was pot luck whether the file was any good or not

I have a 10Mb/s connection. A speed test of my line gives between 6 and 7.5 Mb/s

I can direct download from hosting sites at full speed and never below 9.8 Mb/s

That seems pretty conclusive to me

 

[Homesafe]

hey, Woody/Daozen, yesterday i got a rush of blood and thought it was a good idea to delete the proxy conn. trackers and ones with invalid data.

i think i deleted too many, now i dont have any tracker's just dht and local peer connection which say's working.

could someone kindly post me a tracker that works so i can paste it in the
add tracker in properties section

TIA

 

[daozen]

Newgas, just redownload the torrent from the site. What client are you using?

 

[Homesafe]

Newgas, just redownload the torrent from the site. What client are you using?

re-download does that mean start from scratch?

i am using pirate bay, downloading on utorrent .

 

[holmslaw]

What have codecs got to do with downloading?

Absolutely nothing

The file will download irrespective of what the file is, or in the case of media, what the media file is.

I agree

So that does not reflect on the crapness of torrents

Yes, our terminology was'nt very good. There is nothing wrong with the content downloaded via a torrent.

 

[daozen]

Newgas, just redownload the torrent from the site. What client are you using?

re-download does that mean start from scratch?

i am using pirate bay, downloading on utorrent .

No it doesn't mean start again, the file is still on your computer so re-download the torrent file, it will then find the file already on you system check it and continue downloading.

Utorrent I find is a slow client I find vuse faster and piratebay is no longer what it was and any torrent with its tracker will be going slow since the creators arrested. Use a different site.

Alternatively you could take woodys advice go to rapidshare trawl through the fakes/viruses/spam/etc which make up about 90% of the files named the same as the file you want. Give up spend ages trawling forums to try and find the file you want get a link, after begging some greasy american teenager for it. Get the link put up with waiting for the download to start and be limited to the amount of downloads you can get a day. Get bored waiting trawl the internet for hacks to get passed the limitations, probably give up and pay for a premium account.

 

[Homesafe]

thanks daozen, iv just re-downloaded and got the trackers back,,

some of the tracker's (in the status bar, in the trackers column)say,a proxy connect error: a socket operation was attempted to an unreachable network.

1. what does this mean ?is this a useless tracker?

and some tracker's begin with udp:// instead of http:// and the status of these say,,, invalid url,

2. is this also a useless tracker??

oh and the arrow at the begining of the each torrent downloading, starts blue and then goes red is this a problem??

 

[daozen]

thanks daozen, iv just re-downloaded and got the trackers back,,

some of the tracker's (in the status bar, in the trackers column)say,a proxy connect error: a socket operation was attempted to an unreachable network.

1. what does this mean ?is this a useless tracker?

and some tracker's begin with udp:// instead of http:// and the status of these say,,, invalid url,

2. is this also a useless tracker??

oh and the arrow at the begining of the each torrent downloading, starts blue and then goes red is this a problem??

1- Open Preferences > Connections in your utorrent
Ensure "None" is selected under Proxy Server. Unless of course, you do intend to use proxies.

The UDP tracker protocol is a high-performance low-overhead BitTorrent tracker protocol. It uses the stateless User Datagram Protocol (UDP) for data transmission instead of the HTTP protocol (over TCP) regular trackers use. The data is in a custom binary format instead of the standard bencode algorithm BitTorrent uses for most communication.

The UDP tracker is better optimized and puts less strain on the tracking server, but it is supported by only a few BitTorrent clients. On the other hand the HTTP tracker is supported by all BitTorrent clients and is more reliable for ratio updates. Neither tracker has any effect on transfer speeds. (From wikipedia)

(So no not useless. )

URLs for this protocol have the following format: udp://trackerort. This protocol is supported by only some BitTorrent clients.

2- Follow this link

Do you have a router?