Its a sensation.
I (downloaded and) watched it last night and again tonight.
One of the best films I have seen.
Watched it tonight. Thought it was ok to good. If we didn't know the WWTBAM signifiers it would be pretty average. If that's our film of the year it was been a mediocre year. Watchable but not deadly.
Literally just watched it and was about to post in the movie recommendations thread. Haven't seen a film as good in a very long time. Superb from start to finish great story, great acting, great everything and something a bit different for a change. If anyone hasn't seen it yet go as soon as you can.
I thought it was boring.
Have to reluctantly agree with pints. Very start and stop, stereotypical image of India (played out), and too sentimental towards the end. Entertaining (like ET) but lacked quality or innovation.
Decent visuals, decent soundtrack, decent acting, happy ending = wins awards.
Just finished watching, not bad at all! Something different!
Gran Torino downloaded for tomorrow :)
Can someone give me some sites for downloading movies from ?
While I'm at it a few music ones too !
Quote from: Carmen Stateside on January 17, 2009, 03:22:07 AM
Just finished watching, not bad at all! Something different!
Gran Torino downloaded for tomorrow :)
Quote from: dodo on January 17, 2009, 06:17:35 AM
Can someone give me some sites for downloading movies from ?
While I'm at it a few music ones too !
Are these legal sites?
I watch many streamed on www.watch-movies.net. Slumdog has a good stream.
Quote from: dodo on January 17, 2009, 06:17:35 AM
Can someone give me some sites for downloading movies from ?
While I'm at it a few music ones too !
I dont like watching streams
Download the actual movies/games/music from www.mininova.com
use uTorrent to download the files.
The more people "seeding" the file you download the faster the download....
Quote from: dodo on January 17, 2009, 06:17:35 AM
Can someone give me some sites for downloading movies from ?
While I'm at it a few music ones too !
I pmed these detailed instructions to someone else during the week:
You'll need Bit Torrent - download from here
http://www.bittorrent.com/ - It'll download the films.
Use these sites to find the films you want to download
http://www.torrentz.com/search - searches all sites but I regularly use http://www.mininova.org/cat/4 or http://thepiratebay.org/.
When you search for the film, always download the one with the most seeders/seeds.
Example
http://www.mininova.org/search/dark+knight/seeds - You'll see the top result has over 10,000 seeds - more seeds means the quicker the download. Check out the comments on the quality of the stuff too.
To watch you'll need a codec, which does something with the files.
I think the top on here http://www.divxmovies.com/software/ is the one I have, if you dont have it your film will have no sound. It comes with a "media classic player" too I think and I find it better that WMP.
I'm still not sure if that codec is the right one though.
Thanks Pints......will give it a lash when my housemates stop exceeding our download limit.
can you get in trouble for downloading?
Quote from: leenie on January 17, 2009, 09:24:36 PM
can you get in trouble for downloading?
if you worried about downloading it watch it at at the site O'Neill has posted the link for
I downloaded bittorrent and downloaded friday night lights but no picture comes up just the sound...what have i done wrong?? :-\
You need a codec
QuoteI think the top on here http://www.divxmovies.com/software/ is the one I have, if you dont have it your film will have no sound. It comes with a "media classic player" too I think and I find it better that WMP.
I think that's the one that done the trick for me.
Download VLC player and try playing it on that.
Thanks lads...used yours pints worked well....anyway 2 speed up the downloads...took about 10hours to download pride and glory..is this normal?
Quote from: new devil on January 18, 2009, 08:10:28 AM
Thanks lads...used yours pints worked well....anyway 2 speed up the downloads...took about 10hours to download pride and glory..is this normal?
Shouldnt take that long, how many seeders had it?
Have you much memory on the computer?
Couldn't work it on your sites Pints, it did everything but the downloading. Tried Abbeysider's sites and worked straight away, took about 30 minutes to download 711MB.
Quote from: dodo on January 18, 2009, 11:16:13 AM
Couldn't work it on your sites Pints, it did everything but the downloading. Tried Abbeysider's sites and worked straight away, took about 30 minutes to download 711MB.
Ah well sure you got it working, another potential cell mate. Great!
Quote from: dodo on January 18, 2009, 11:16:13 AM
Couldn't work it on your sites Pints, it did everything but the downloading. Tried Abbeysider's sites and worked straight away, took about 30 minutes to download 711MB.
Glad to hear you got it working!
Torrents are the best thing since sliced bread!
Quote from: AbbeySider on January 18, 2009, 11:44:48 AM
Quote from: dodo on January 18, 2009, 11:16:13 AM
Couldn't work it on your sites Pints, it did everything but the downloading. Tried Abbeysider's sites and worked straight away, took about 30 minutes to download 711MB.
Glad to hear you got it working!
Torrents are the best thing since sliced bread!
They are indeed,it took me a while to get my head around them but now I'm downloading loads of stuff
I have over 3000 songs and whole series like Extreme Engineering and loads of movies downloaded.
I use www.piratebay.org to find the torrents and then Utorrent to download it,I just finished downloading the 3 Bourne films as I have never seen any of them..
I work with a boy who says his father was fined £500 for using piratebay.
Quote from: pintsofguinness on January 18, 2009, 12:16:15 PM
I work with a boy who says his father was fined £500 for using piratebay.
Could you believe him or would he be full of shit??
Quote from: Our Nail Loney on January 18, 2009, 12:23:12 PM
Quote from: pintsofguinness on January 18, 2009, 12:16:15 PM
I work with a boy who says his father was fined £500 for using piratebay.
Could you believe him or would he be full of shit??
I'd have no reason to doubt him. I was using piratebay and if I had to tell him that I would have said he was trying to wind me up but he mentioned it before I did. Plus he would nt have a clue about computers and wouldnt know what a torrent was.
Quote from: pintsofguinness on January 18, 2009, 12:27:17 PM
Quote from: Our Nail Loney on January 18, 2009, 12:23:12 PM
Quote from: pintsofguinness on January 18, 2009, 12:16:15 PM
I work with a boy who says his father was fined £500 for using piratebay.
Could you believe him or would he be full of shit??
I'd have no reason to doubt him. I was using piratebay and if I had to tell him that I would have said he was trying to wind me up but he mentioned it before I did. Plus he would nt have a clue about computers and wouldnt know what a torrent was.
Hmmm, on the plus side for me I don't think I use torrents even half as much as some of you do!! Most of the ones on here are constantly downloading, watching then downloading again!!
Do you lads have a download limit with your ISP ? We have a 50G limit here between 3 of us, one lad has been using 90% of this as the other 2 of us haven't been file sharing.....till now !
Well I do think that if they wanted to cut down on this they would target the sites and their owners or the uploaders before downloaders like ourselves?
I dont have a download limit.
Would any of you be kind enough to post an idiot proof step by step guide to downloading. I'd love to start downloading films and stuff but don't know where or how to start. Thanks.
I have on page one.
Indeed you have. Thanks Pints.
Pints, I've downloaded Bittorrent and the Codex thing. My first film is being downloaded at the minute.
Can I burn it to a dvd when it has downloaded, or would I have to watch it on the laptop?
How long, on average, can you expect to wait for the download to complete?
Sorry 'bout all the questions.
Quote from: DoYerJob Linesman on January 18, 2009, 03:02:43 PM
Pints, I've downloaded Bittorrent and the Codex thing. My first film is being downloaded at the minute.
Can I burn it to a dvd when it has downloaded, or would I have to watch it on the laptop?
How long, on average, can you expect to wait for the download to complete?
Sorry 'bout all the questions.
I think you can burn it on to dvd but you need something else to do that. I never do, just watch it on the laptop.
The time for the download depends on the seeders, is bitttorent not giving you an estimated time?
Did media player classic download with the codec? You might want to try the VLC player oneill recomended, it looks good.
The estimated time is changing, currently about 15 hours. Almost 10000 seeds, the most available.
Thanks for your help.
Quote from: DoYerJob Linesman on January 18, 2009, 03:17:40 PM
The estimated time is changing, currently about 15 hours. Almost 10000 seeds, the most available.
Thanks for your help.
It should speed up and be quite quick with all those seeds. Are you sure you've enough memory on the computer?
I was bitching about the length it was taking to download without realising I'd no memory left on the laptop!
Quote from: pintsofguinness on January 18, 2009, 03:10:19 PM
Quote from: DoYerJob Linesman on January 18, 2009, 03:02:43 PM
Pints, I've downloaded Bittorrent and the Codex thing. My first film is being downloaded at the minute.
Can I burn it to a dvd when it has downloaded, or would I have to watch it on the laptop?
How long, on average, can you expect to wait for the download to complete?
Sorry 'bout all the questions.
I think you can burn it on to dvd but you need something else to do that. I never do, just watch it on the laptop.
The time for the download depends on the seeders, is bitttorent not giving you an estimated time?
Did media player classic download with the codec? You might want to try the VLC player oneill recomended, it looks good.
Pints do you know what this may be?
Downloaded a few good shows off the Irish torrent site, few of the friends looking copys!
Ah bollocks, tried three times now do download different films. The download stops, telling me there is a data error, cycle redundancy check. Completely lost now. ???
Quote from: Carmen Stateside on January 18, 2009, 03:56:29 PM
Quote from: pintsofguinness on January 18, 2009, 03:10:19 PM
Quote from: DoYerJob Linesman on January 18, 2009, 03:02:43 PM
Pints, I've downloaded Bittorrent and the Codex thing. My first film is being downloaded at the minute.
Can I burn it to a dvd when it has downloaded, or would I have to watch it on the laptop?
How long, on average, can you expect to wait for the download to complete?
Sorry 'bout all the questions.
I think you can burn it on to dvd but you need something else to do that. I never do, just watch it on the laptop.
The time for the download depends on the seeders, is bitttorent not giving you an estimated time?
Did media player classic download with the codec? You might want to try the VLC player oneill recomended, it looks good.
Pints do you know what this may be?
Downloaded a few good shows off the Irish torrent site, few of the friends looking copys!
You would need something like Nero to burn the dvds, and also to convert the files so that they are viewable on your standard dvd player, think the format is vob or something, someone could correct me, I am not too sure on it?
Thanks ONL, think i will get that Nero package!
Is it the best site for this or are they all much the same?
Quote from: DoYerJob Linesman on January 18, 2009, 03:59:15 PM
Ah bollocks, tried three times now do download different films. The download stops, telling me there is a data error, cycle redundancy check. Completely lost now. ???
Ive no idea but:
QuoteIn the torrent job status, I get "Error: Data Error (cyclic redundancy check)" and BitTorrent Mainline halts the torrent job
This error is not an error generated by BitTorrent Mainline, but rather, an error it receives from the hard drive. The error indicates that the hard drive was unable to read or write the data because the sectors are faulty, or are about to die. Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) errors are often signs of possible future disk corruption. Running chkdsk might help fix the problem, but stronger recovery tools (such as SpinRite) may be required (assuming the disk is at all repairable).
http://www.bittorrent.com/btusers/guides/bittorrent-user-manual/faq-frequently-asked-questions/error-messages#In_the_torrent_job_status_I_get_Error:_Data_Error_cyclic_redundancy_check_and_BitTorrentMainline_halts_the_torrent_job
(http://www.bittorrent.com/btusers/guides/bittorrent-user-manual/faq-frequently-asked-questions/error-messages#In_the_torrent_job_status_I_get_Error:_Data_Error_cyclic_redundancy_check_and_BitTorrentMainline_halts_the_torrent_job)
???
Thats me bate then. :D
Quote from: DoYerJob Linesman on January 18, 2009, 07:54:16 PM
Thats me bate then. :D
Did you try Abbetsider's sites, they worked no bother for me.
I did. It seems to be a problem with the Bittorrent application though.
Quote from: pintsofguinness on January 18, 2009, 11:05:06 AM
Quote from: new devil on January 18, 2009, 08:10:28 AM
Thanks lads...used yours pints worked well....anyway 2 speed up the downloads...took about 10hours to download pride and glory..is this normal?
Shouldnt take that long, how many seeders had it?
Have you much memory on the computer?
Just got a new laptop pints...plugged internet cable and downloaded gran troino in 17mins...so must off been the wireless i was tapped into...thanks for your help...this is great!! :)
Quote from: new devil on January 18, 2009, 10:44:35 PM
Quote from: pintsofguinness on January 18, 2009, 11:05:06 AM
Quote from: new devil on January 18, 2009, 08:10:28 AM
Thanks lads...used yours pints worked well....anyway 2 speed up the downloads...took about 10hours to download pride and glory..is this normal?
Shouldnt take that long, how many seeders had it?
Have you much memory on the computer?
Just got a new laptop pints...plugged internet cable and downloaded gran troino in 17mins...so must off been the wireless i was tapped into...thanks for your help...this is great!! :)
No problem, great film!
For carmen stateside or any other stateside posters did yous no that you can download match of the day on minivova??
F**k this is great wish had of got into this years ago
There are many packages that'll burn your download format with Nero being the best known. However, if you'd rather watch them on the big screen, buy a dvd player that plays AVIs, MPEGS etc so you've no converting to do.
I have this yoke ( http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=1319&page=2) but rarely use it as used to the small screen now, or I just memory stick it onto the Mac.
Pints 1 more thing when its downloaded and you have watched the movie does it just stay in bittorrent? or do you have to move it somewere else?
You should have a download folder - if not, make one. Unless you want to be a good samaritan and become a seed, take it off.
Another decent avi to dvd programme before burning is this - http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/avi_to_dvd_avi2dvd.cfm
How do you make one of them...by now iam sure yous know i having a clue about this sort of thing :D
Go in to options and preferences, under directories you can pick your folder for the downloads.
I just leave them in bittorrent, generally let them seed a while and then stop them.
Quote from: ONeill on January 17, 2009, 07:54:45 AM
I watch many streamed on www.watch-movies.net. Slumdog has a good stream.
this doesn't seem to work... do you have another one for streaming? and how long does it take?
i thought i would try and download.... its downloading in lime wire ... is this right?
I watched the movie and really, really enjoyed it. Still, the sight of all the shite and garbage still hasn't persuaded me to go to anywhere in the subcontinent. The rats running over the beam in my "bedroom" in Cambodia 13 years ago towards the picturesque lake filled with crap still wrankles the brain.
A la Tony Fearon, I knew the million-dollar question and the one about the cricketer who has scored the most first-class centuries.
Saw it last night too and think its very good but not the best I've ever seen or anything.
Very good idea for a way to present a life story but the cynic in me kept saying at different stages 'as if'.
The acting was decent, the presenter was crap though and I doubt someone could be that condescending. Latika in her adult form is an absolute stunner!
I suppose it follows the Bollywood formula of happy ending, boy gets girl and it was uplifting. I'd give it 8 out of 10.
I'd give it 9. I thought the children actors were out of the world and the adult Latika...........