The technical ineptitude or I'm crap with computery stuff thread.

I consider myself to be reasonably clued when it comes to PC stuff.

I can build one from it's components and I can fix most of the mechanical issues witha deft sweep of my soldering iron.



However when it comes to the software I rather crap.



I have two issues at the moment.



1. I cannot play any streaming movies on my PC. e.g I go on youtube and the clip I want to watch doesn't play. I get the Q for quicktime that shows up nicely in bold blue initially and then fades to a paler translucent colour and no clip is forthcoming regardless how long I wait.

I get this on both mozilla and IE.

how the hell do I fix this?

Can I change the media player within my explorer window to fix this to flash or media player? and if so how do I do it>




2. After downloading lost for bittorrent I have no idea how to turn the data into a file I can watch.

Sometimes it will download and the media player tab will show that then allows me to watch it, but otherwise I'm stumped.

I currently have episodes 14-20 to watch and I can only watch 16 due to this.


again any help will gratefully be recieved.







Feel free to raise you technical issues in this thread after you helped fix my problems.


Cheers

 

can't help you with quicktime, but as for lost, if you download vlc media player (for free) you should be able to watch any video file going. just right click the file and "open with vlc media player". there should be an orange traffic cone icon on the file you want to open. piece of cake.

 

I have VLC and it's very good.


It won't however play the files for lost as they are downloaded as zip/rar files.


I can extract them but it still won't play them

 

gutted

without sounding stupid, have you tried downloading other lost torrents and trying them?

 

Yup, still a no go.


I need to know how to convert them as if to play on a dvd player as I can burn them in that case.


I'm also sick of downloading lost.



I've downloaded ep14 7 times. 3 of them were porno's


It was very annoying. You get it downloaded and sit down with the missus to watch it, then you up having to turn it off (and hide it in the safe secure place she doesn't know about ) and then get the next one only for it to be the same or similar.


I had loads of explaining to do that night.

 

From experience Quicktime is particularly awkward when playing certain content from the web. Do you have the latest version of Quicktime installed? If you do have it installed, do you have the most up to date plugins installed for the web browser you wish to use?

Your second problem may not be so straight forward, for a starters do you know the file extension of the torrent download?

 

I have the latest version of quicktime, but a don't know to the rest of your questions.


I though plugins could be put on Autodownload?

 

Somebody, please, please, please, tell me how to use Torrents!!! I use BitTorrent as the downloady thing, but I can never get anything to download! Heeeeeeeeelp!!!!

 

I'm assuming you know litrally nothing here for the sake of simplifying this.

Step one: Download a BitTorrent Client. My personal fave is uTorrentwhen in Windows which I'm guessing is your OS.

Step two: Install the client, or if it's uTorrent just open it and it'll ask you if you want to associate .torrent files with it. Select yes.

Step three: Download a torrent. remember the more seeders the better. Seeders = People who're sharing the torrent files and have it fully downloaded, Leechers = people downloading the file. You can download bits of either of them.

Step four: Double click on the downloaded torrent and it should automatically open up in your prefarred client. Wait for it to connect to the torrent and download.

Step five: If you have a router you can speed up your potential speeds by find the name and model of it on this site and following the instructions.


OR

Download Opera 9 beta 2 here and use that as your web browser. With it you can download torrents like they're downloads of a server without any configurations. It's also easy to switch of if you decide you'ld rather use a client but keep using Opera aswell.

 

1. Google it!

2. What is the file extension for the movies?

To see the file extension (if you cant) then

go to the folder you have the files in

select Tools

then selectFolder Options...

then the View tab

in the list uncheck 'Hide extensions for known file types'

and then hit Apply- this should show all the extensions after every file.

 

And DONT... I repeat, DO NOT do a search for Tom Pryce on YouTube or Google video! DONT!


EDIT: and i wouldnt recommend CAGE FIGHTING BROKEN LEG

 

Damn it. U know I gotta go to it now TK. This better not be anything too dodgy

 

not 'dodgy' but... hmmmmm... how would ya put it?

 

I just did lol.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6286713193860896097&q=tom+pryce

Is that real?

 

Yuk, that is awful!

 

yeah, gg1- it's real- from 77 i think. poor guys (driver died too)

 

It seems like you have associated Quicktime with all video file extensions. You need to go into Windows Explorer then tools, folder options, files and change the associations to something more suitable. This site lists most of the file extensions.

 

It works hurrah!


Cheers Moylesy.



TK those clips are just wrong.



EDIT: GAH it won't work on firefox still



Ah well I suppose I can use IE every now and then

 

no no fatburt, you should throw your computer away

go down to toys r us and get a texas speak and spell

 

That may still be a bit too advanced for me.




Do they still make abacus's/i?