Torrents

[Kazilla]

So i downloaded a torrent yesterday i had found of an old game i used to like in my younger years. It is in the form of an ISO file. Can anyone tell me what that is? I tried to open the file and it wants me to choose what application to open it with. Is there something else i have to download that will run that?

[!King_Amazon!]

An ISO is an image file of a CD. You can either mount it on a virtual drive, or burn it onto a blank CD. I like Alcohol 120% myself, but that's only a 30 day trial unless you get a cracked version. It allows you to create up to 6 virtual drives to mount image files to, which can be pretty handy. It also has the ability to burn CDs/DVDs and such.

If you need any more specific help just lemme know.

[Kazilla]

I went back to the website i used to get the torrent, and found that the comments suggested Daemon Tools Lite. So i went through that, and uploaded the image. Then i had another problem - it wanted me to get a Macromedia Shockwave Player, finally found that and restarted my computer. When i finally loaded back up i tried to open it and i got this error. What do you think i do from here.

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[!King_Amazon!]

I'm not sure. I never used Daemon Tools. I know it works basically the same as Alcohol 120%, but I don't know anything about it other than what it is used for. Sorry :/

[Lenny]

You can open ISO files in WinRAR. It's a 40 day free trial, but when it's expired it's still usable.

[!King_Amazon!]

Doesn't that just show you all of the garbage in the file, though?

I think what he needs to do is either burn the image onto a CD or mount it on a virtual drive. I've never heard of actually needing to open it and view its contents. I could be wrong, though.

[Kazilla]

i extracted it that way and im still getting the bad image error

[sheerx]

I recommend daemon tools for image mounting. It free and very easy to use.

[Kazilla]

who would i go about taking the ISO file into a cd to be burned - do i have to go through DAEMON TOOLS?

[Lenny]

Nah. Any good burning software will give you the option to straight copy a CD, or burn files to a CD. Choose the latter and select your ISO file to burn.

[Kazilla]

after that the cd i burned will take the place of the game itself? correct

[!King_Amazon!]

after that the cd i burned will take the place of the game itself? correct
It works essentially like this:

Say I want to make a copy of my Diablo 2 Expansion CD. I can make an image file of the entire CD. That would be the ISO file.

If I were to take that image file and burn it to a CD, that CD would, essentially, be a copy of my Diablo 2 Expansion CD.

Just the same, if I were to send that file to someone else over the internet, they could use it to burn a copy of the Diablo 2 Expansion CD as well.

[Kazilla]

ok so another question. I downloaded 'Epic Movie' just now through my torrent, and went to open it with WMP - it didnt have the codec so i did some searching and found it. Now when i play it i have 0 sound. what do i do?

[jamer123]

dont use torrent then if nothing works from it

[Kazilla]

alot of torrents dont work - but then again a handfull of other games and movies do work - the problem is most of the times people download from a torrent they dont have the correct codec - or just dont understand 1/2 of the program they are using so they dismiss it as an idiot program that doesnt work.

[Chruser]

To burn ISO files to a CD, use InfraRecorder (http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net).

To play most video and audio formats, use VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc).

Both applications are free and open-source.

[jamer123]

what site do you use and ill try it out
after i posted it i got a weird message

[Kazilla]

To burn ISO files to a CD, use InfraRecorder (http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net).

To play most video and audio formats, use VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc).

Both applications are free and open-source.
thank you chruser - those 2 files need to be stickied - it played my video no questions asked :)

[jamer123]

thanks chruser

[WetWired]

Combined Community Codec Pack makes all video work with all programs. It even lets me transcode MKVs with programs that don't understand them.

[Kazilla]

So, I have a 70GB HD. I want to DL a torrent which is 58GB. Is there a way I can download x amount, burn them to a CD delete them, then DL another few until I have a full collection?

[WetWired]

Many torrent clients let you choose which files to DL