cant play dvd.rip files

dustin wrote: ok so ive been torrenting a few movies and here’s my delima.
i get sound just fine, no problem. the problem is i have no picture whatsoever.
i have 30 winrar files with an .avi in them. the problem is i extract them and each of them is nothing but sound.
also .r30-r47 files. i extracted the r30 with winrar and got, yet again, sound....
theres an sfv file but i dont really want a dvd i just want to watch the friggen movie...
any suggestions?

fousee wrote: I downloaded a movie in a folder of around 50 .r01 files. One file with .sfv and another with .nfo. I know the .r01 files can be extracted using winrar. But when I do extract one of those files, 2 files are extracted. One with .bin and the other .cue and still cannot play the movie..can you help me with this one please...Thankyou

dopeko wrote: just managed to open the downloaded file
those of you who get alliance XXXXXXX.xvid.001
and so on
just double click on the file and then choose program from program installed. then chose winRAR (you need to install this program first)
WinRAR will then open the file and you will see the movie you downloaded as AVI

extract it to a new folder and watch it like any AVI files

microcronz wrote: One thing that does happen very frequently with torrents is that people put large files into what are called .rar files. These are essentially archive files so that the single larger file is broken down into many smaller files. This helps prevent loss of large chunks of data if you get corruption which is sometimes inevitable. To use the files contained within these archives you need to download a copy of WinRar which is free from somewhere like here (http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar351.exe). When you download these multiple .rar files you will get a file called nameofmovie.rar and a bunch of files called nameofmovie.r00, nameofmovie.r01, nameofmovie.r02 etc. You need to extract the .rar file not any of the .r00, .r01, r02 etc files as they wont work. If there is no .rar file at all then open the first numbered .r00 instead and it should work

If you want to download a film or video clip them it can come in all sorts of different file types. Primarily you will end up with files with these sorts of extensions: AVI, WMV, MPEG, RM, RMVB. These are media files will all happily play straight away using windows media player if you have to correct codecs, .rm files need real media player. You should get both the Xvid (http://www.xvid.org/downloads.html) and DivX (http://www.divx.com/divx/play/download/) codecs by clicking the links provided. This will let you see far more types of films. If you have trouble viewing a particular file I advise that you get hold of the Video Lan media player from here (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/). This is an awesome bit of software that will play almost any type of media file you try with it (I have never had one it couldn’t handle) and its open source.

If you go to download a movie and you find that you have downloaded a .bin and a .cue file, a .mdf and a .mds or an .iso file then what you have got is a copy of the data off the CD/DVD. These are known as image files and can be viewed by mounting them in a program such as alchol120% or daemon tools or they can be burned to a disk using a program like Nero. These types of files are designed to be burnt to disk and then played back using a DVD player hooked up to a TV. If you downloaded an .iso it is probably a rip of the exact image of the retail DVD of the film you want. This is best for replacing a damaged DVD that you own. They normally are either 2.85 or 4.6gigabytes in size which is very large and can take some time to download. If you get 700megabyte files then they are either VCD or SVCD and will play in most resent DVD players. Most movies which come as .cue and .bin or as .mdf and .mds are either VCD or SVCD.