What is a TORRENT file and how to you open them?

[Adornado]

I was wondering what a torrent file is and how you open them. Do you encode them as AVIs? This is related to movies because many movie files are now .torrent so I think it's alright.

[JCPhoenix]

http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/

download bit torrent from the link above. Bit Torrent is basically a program SORT OF like Kazaa or iMesh, or WinMX, etc, etc. (but better imo).

torrent files are not movie files or avis etc. they're exactly what you said they are - torrent files. Basically after downloading bit torrent you go to torrent sites and click on links for either movies, games, music, books, etc, etc the list goes on. just about anything. let's say you go to suprnova.org and click on movies, then click on one of the links. these links are TORRENT files. if you open them, what'll happen is there'll be a "SAVE-AS" screen and you can save the actual movie, game, or mp3, etc to whichever directory you choose. You won't be able to open tyhe torrent file (which basically is just a file that allows you to download the avi, or the mp3, or the whatever file you wanted) if you don't have bit torrent of course.

at the same time that you're downloading from others, you're uploading the parts that you've downloaded so far to others.

as well, if you cancel the download in halfway or your comp crashes, that's ok. if you open the torrent file again and save the avi or whatever in the same directory, it'll continue downloading from where it left off.

i'm not very good at explaining this i know but i hope that helped a bit.

and 1 more thing: www.suprnova.org is probably the best place to start for getting torrent files.

[Adornado]

Thanks for that!

And suprnova is what brought my attention to .torrent files although I've wondered about them before.

Thanks again.

[Mr. Durden^3]

Here's a simpler version:

Go to a torrent site (ie. suprnova.org), download a torrent program (ie. Torrent Storm), and open that downloaded torrent from the site in the program and watch it download.

[bmain77]

I've never hear off Torent. I think I'll be checking this out.

[badberry]

Torrents are awesome...however be careful, as they can eat up mad amounts of bandwidth due to the program sending out everything you've downloaded to other people (how the program works so well). So your ISP may be a unhappy with you if you use it a lot! (Mine's bitched at me a couple times ;) )

[JCPhoenix]

Originally posted by badberry
Torrents are awesome...however be careful, as they can eat up mad amounts of bandwidth due to the program sending out everything you've downloaded to other people (how the program works so well). So your ISP may be a unhappy with you if you use it a lot! (Mine's bitched at me a couple times ;) )

yes indeed...u often upload at a higher rate than you download...but thank god for unlimited bandwidth :D

[Annie Hall]

So...wait...


what IS this exactly?