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Post  Posted: June 12, 2008 - 11:56 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

hey, i am using azareus and would like to know if there's a possibility to switch off the automatic updates. looked around a bit last night but couldn't find it ???
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Post  Posted: June 12, 2008 - 01:09 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

My problem is burning my downloaded vids onto a DVD, that I can show on my TV (through my dvd player).... I even bought an external dvd burner (pioneer), and purchased Nero 8.... Works sometimes, but not a clean process....
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Post  Posted: June 13, 2008 - 11:48 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Not sure if this will help, but I have a malata DVD player which has a USB port. It plays DivX without any need for conversion, so I can just put a video onto a flash drive and plug it into the DVD player. The player was about 400 RMB, and it also plays DVDs that other players have trouble with.

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Post  Posted: July 27, 2008 - 04:30 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Anyone having seeding problems on private tracker VS a public one?

I can seed no problem on public ones up to 50kBs but private ones seem to not connect to me often and when they do, it's very slow like 0.1kBs, etc. Is the ISP here throttling seeding to foreign peers or is there something I can change in my uTorrent settings to correct this?

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Post  Posted: Aug 07, 2008 - 04:21 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

What download speeds are you averaging on american tv episodes of popular shows?
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Post  Posted: Aug 14, 2008 - 10:09 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

no torrents this time....
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Post  Posted: Aug 14, 2008 - 11:01 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

ranmachen wrote:
Anyone having seeding problems on private tracker VS a public one?

I can seed no problem on public ones up to 50kBs but private ones seem to not connect to me often and when they do, it's very slow like 0.1kBs, etc. Is the ISP here throttling seeding to foreign peers or is there something I can change in my uTorrent settings to correct this?


I'd like to think users in private trackers are more sophisticated and might be using torrent client plugins that prevent connecting from peers from China.

As for speed, the lower speed in private trackers at least according to "my friend" (I never download torrents!) is because of the lower number of seeds.

Difficult to build good ratio on private trackers from here, or so I heard.

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Post  Posted: Aug 20, 2008 - 01:35 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Thunder is my option. It is featured a vey fast download speed and a priority in speed against other terminals within the same broadband unit. Also, Thunder has a very high upper limit speed up to around 1M/s or higher. It is well known for being most widely applied in China. Very user friendly, very convenient, very applicable and adaptable.

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Post  Posted: Aug 21, 2008 - 10:54 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

any good guides out there for optimizing utorrent 1.8?
specifically interested in how to tweak upload/connections/global max connections vs. connection type (upload max.)

how to you gauge your upload max- or your speed in general- properly when you are behind the great firewall?
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Post  Posted: Aug 21, 2008 - 04:08 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

A lot of people forget to open a port when using their bittorrent software.... that's the most common reason why you'll see speeds under 2kbs. You need to open up your firewall (software and/or router) and make sure a port is left open.

Since someone brings up Thunder (which I really dislike! it is a big piece of spyware... it will screw up your computer... guaranteed! Especially if you lack a Chinese operating system...) I think I should offer an alternative.

For a much better option... I recommend VeryCD.com in addition with eMule... same basic concept as torrents, but in terms of speed it's going to be the same or better as Thunder (making it basically the fastest way you can download files in China). Best place now for Chinese-only content, but of course, you'll be able to get most mainstream English stuff as well, but just with Chinese subtitles. Caveat: VeryCD.com is all in Chinese, so if you can't read, you may find it difficult to use.
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Post  Posted: Oct 21, 2008 - 02:29 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

bleucheese wrote:
any good guides out there for optimizing utorrent 1.8?
specifically interested in how to tweak upload/connections/global max connections vs. connection type (upload max.)

how to you gauge your upload max- or your speed in general- properly when you are behind the great firewall?


I have no idea if this will help, but try this:

LINK


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Post  Posted: Oct 21, 2008 - 02:55 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Since none of us are strangers to forums:

http://www.torrentforums.com/

http://www.bittorrentforums.net/

http://forums.torrentbox.com/

Not that our resident experts aren't awesome help, but google is also a cool tool too.
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Post  Posted: Oct 21, 2008 - 05:49 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

gardensnake wrote:
A lot of people forget to open a port when using their bittorrent software.... that's the most common reason why you'll see speeds under 2kbs. You need to open up your firewall (software and/or router) and make sure a port is left open.


Can you discuss this in some detail so some of us can cross check settings and other advice on diff. forums ?
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Post  Posted: Oct 22, 2008 - 09:44 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Interesting site for ISP info:

LINK
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Post  Posted: Oct 22, 2008 - 10:00 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Very cool people here to help you:

http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/
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Post  Posted: Nov 06, 2008 - 09:32 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Notice:

Demonoid registrations are open right now.
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Post  Posted: Nov 10, 2008 - 11:06 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

There is a lot of talk that the tracker Denis Stalker or Dennis Stalker is either fake and / or this guy intends to give you viruses and other non-value related items.

Anyone have any thoughts on this ? First hand experiences ?

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Post  Posted: Nov 11, 2008 - 09:32 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

hmm

SOME NEW TECH
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Post  Posted: Nov 12, 2008 - 11:11 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

FuqMii wrote:
hmm

SOME NEW TECH


I saw something about that on Engadget about a week ago and have been wanting one ever since. Do you know if it's actually available in Shanghai?

I've been downloading 720p mkv of Dexter this season and this seems like the perfect way to actually play them on my HDTV instead of being limited to just my laptop.
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Post  Posted: Nov 12, 2008 - 02:20 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

whats the website of Thunder?
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Post  Posted: Nov 16, 2008 - 08:52 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

SFFog wrote:
FuqMii wrote:
hmm

SOME NEW TECH


I saw something about that on Engadget about a week ago and have been wanting one ever since. Do you know if it's actually available in Shanghai?

I've been downloading 720p mkv of Dexter this season and this seems like the perfect way to actually play them on my HDTV instead of being limited to just my laptop.


I'm bringing one back from the U.S. at the end of the month. I'm PUMPED.
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Post  Posted: Nov 17, 2008 - 02:43 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

These type of machines have been out for quite some time - they all do the same, maybe some with more current chipsets to play a larger variety of files

but check out this link on taobao - they all do the magic - best is to hard wire them onto your network for HD file streaming or hook up a portable hard drive depending on ur setup

http://search1.taobao.com/browse/50008097-1217-50008320/n-7----------- -----------0------0--------------g,ojsxgzlsozsv64dsnfrwkwzrgiydalbtguy daxi--g,zhh3viy-g,geydqmdq-------2-------b--40--_bid-0-all-50008320.ht m
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Post  Posted: Jan 23, 2009 - 10:41 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Anyone using sites with a good collection of HD content ?
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Post  Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 01:37 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Decent multi torrent search engine here - http://www.usniff.com

Suggest download the firefox plugin and use that. Works pretty well.

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Post  Posted: Feb 08, 2009 - 08:49 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

I'm trying to convert movie files to play (as a DVD or otherwise), and running into some issues. Normally I want to convert avi and rmvb to something playable on my laptop.

I have ffdshow installed, not quite sure what what settings to use. Currently have the file in a MPG format and the sound comes come out ok. When I try to open the file in windows media player it says "connecting to codec" + "sending request for codec" then error downloading codec ..

Any idea what i am doing wrong, and ffdsshow does not seem very user friendly any suggestion ?
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