Basic Guide To Bit Torrent

To download files using the Bit Torrent protocol you will need a Client, there are many many different Bit Torrent Clients out there which you can decide on which one to use yourself. My preferred Bit Torrent Client is Utorrent it's lightweight, does not hog system resources like other Bit Torrent Clients do and has a clean user friendly interface. See figure 1.a below for a screenshot of Utorrent.

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Now we have a torrent client lets talk about torrent trackers and what they do. A torrent tracker handles the connections for such torrent files that are stored on the trackers server, when you connect to a tracker from a torrent file you do not download the files from the server you download the files from people who have those files saved onto their computer, the process of people sending you files is called seeding (they are seeding the files to you, also called uploading). The whole point of BitTorrent is to seed (upload) as much as you download.

Sharing of files through BitTorrent uses minimum bandwidth as all data tasnferred is done so via p2p (peer-to-peer) meaning it does not use the servers bandwidth but uses the bandwidth of the people connected to the tracker via a certain torrent.

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Burning A DVD Video In Nero

After the last tutorial you will need to know how to burn the files you ended up with, so thats exactly what you are going to learn in this tutorial.

You will need the Nero Burning Rom software, you can download a free trial version from HERE , you will also need a blanc DVD disc (DVD+R or DVD-R depending on your writer).

Now lets get started, first off open Nero (double click the dekstop icon) once you have Nero open you will be presented with a window as shown in figure 1.a

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What you should have slected is DVD in the drop down box and DVD-Video as circled in fingure 1.a above, once you have done the above then you now need to click New and you will then be presented with a new window. (see figure 1.b)

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As you can see in the above image i have navigated to the movie folder were the DVD files were saved from WinAVI and all i have done is drag over the contents of the Video_TS folder to the Video_TS folder in Nero, ignore the Audio_TS folder as we dont need to bother with this and it is an empty folder anyway. Now burn the DVD.

Thats all you need to do burn the movies you convert with WinAVI, simple huh :)

Converting Xvid & DivX Movies Using WinAVI

Ok, in this tutorial you will learn how you can quickly and efficiently convert your .avi movies into dvd format ready to play on your household dvd player.

You will need the WinAVI software which you can download a free trial version from HERE, you will also need an .avi movie file you want to convert and about 40 minutes of your time.

First off you need to open the WinAVI software, do so by double clicking the icon on your desktop. Next you need to select the round DVD button in the WinAVI menu screen (see figure 1.a)

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Once you have selected the DVD button as shown above, you will then be asked to choose the file you want to convert. Locate the .avi file on your hard drive and click it once then click the open button.

The next screen is fairly straight forward (see figure 1.b below). In the top box it shows the source to be converted (the .avi file you chose before), the output directory (where you want to save the converted files too), and last but not least the file output format which we already decided on at the start of this tutorial and that was DVD, so now were all set click on the OK button to start the conversion.

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Now we have the .avi being converted, all we can do is sit back and wait for the video to finish converting. It usually takes about 35-45 minutes, thus depending on on the speed of your processor. See figure 1.b1 below to see what the conversion screen looks like.

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Thankyou for reading my tutorial, the next scheduled tutorial will involve burning the outputted files you got from this tutorial.