Problems Viewing Bittorrent Files

[MMM PIE]

Alright, I'm just going to flat out and say it, because it's completely true and totally obvious:  I'm an utter Bittorrent noob.

Anyways, with that out of the way, on to business.  I've recently downloaded the .torrent files of the ToP animations, but when I try to play the .avi files, my computer complains that "they have a bad file name".   Occasionally, the files will play the audio portion of the animation, but the screen remains white.

Any suggestions on how I could fix this problem and view these files?  Thanks for the help!

[Fluffy]

What media player are you using? because I use VLC Media Player and it works perfectly...

and, have you downloaded the entire file? because if you try to play the file before it's 100% downloaded, it won't work. being a bittorrent noob, you prolly don't know how downloading the files works... http://en.wikipedia.org/w...orrents_and_sharing_files -- that should help you understand how downloading a file works -- you download chunks of a file, out of continuity.. basically. So if you don't have the entire file downloaded, it won't work. at all.

I hope this helps. ^__^;

[MMM PIE]

Yeah, I'm sure that I had downloaded the entire file.  I even attempted to download the .avi files directly, from the site Axiverse posted on his thread, and exactly the same message came up.

When I click on the files, my comp tries to open them up with QuickTime Player.  And I  can't get them to work in Windows Media Player...

[StIoachim]

You need xvid codecs for them to work.
Try to use VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc), if it doesn't work, the files are probably corrupt or incomplete

[bungiefan]

Yeah, I'm sure that I had downloaded the entire file.  I even attempted to download the .avi files directly, from the site Axiverse posted on his thread, and exactly the same message came up.

When I click on the files, my comp tries to open them up with QuickTime Player.  And I  can't get them to work in Windows Media Player...

So don't open the files by double clicking them. Reassociate the file type with a different media player, or open the media player and then use the menu to pick the file to open.

VLC Media Player or Media Player Classic with a modern codec pack (like Satsuki or CCCP) will play nearly every file you can download on the internet nowadays. QuickTime and WMP don't come with very many codecs, and you have to spend more time downloading and installing individual codecs to make them work with many files distributed by fansubbers, so they're not very worthwhile to use.

I mainly use Satsuki Decoder Pack with MPC to play my files, and haven't found anything it can't play yet. I just don't use VLC because I can't access the interface in full-screen mode or stop and start videos with a mouse click, and since I output from a closed laptop to a TV for watching some videos, and use just an external mouse to control the video, VLC doesn't give me the interface I need to make it work easily.