Yeah, what you have is the "pointer" to all the bits of the file. Note the size of the .torrent file - WAY too small to be the actual movie...most of which are 700megs.
Once you get the movie, it'll generally be a .mpeg or .avi or one of a few other video formats. Once in a while it'll be a .RAR archive, in which case in most Linux distros you're OK - open the archive, double-click on the lowest-numbered file inside, it will pack 'em all into the actual video format file. Next, why burn 'em to DVD? Play 'em right there on your computer if you want... Jim On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jordan Aberle <[email protected]>wrote: > A .torrent is just a script file to tell bittorrent where to download > the file from. It sounds like you need to read a bit how torrents > work. > > -Jordan > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Eric - A <[email protected]> wrote: > > it's a *.torrent and it's 28kb and I can't play it from the desktop > > > > > > . > > Eric - A > > . > > http://plug.phoenix.az.us/ > > . > > > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > > Return-Path: <[email protected]> > > Received: from mx16.dca.untd.com (mx16.dca.untd.com [10.171.44.46]) > > by maildeliver06.vgs.untd.com with SMTP id AABGYMW8TAZ6TJXS > > for <[email protected]> (sender < > [email protected]>); > > Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:43:14 -0800 (PST) > > Authentication-Results: mx16.dca.untd.com; DKIM=NONE > > Received-SPF: None > > Received: from lists.snaptek.com (164.plug.phoenix.az.us[140.99.58.164]) > > by mx16.dca.untd.com with SMTP id AABGYMW8SA7MAXV2 > > for <[email protected]> (sender < > [email protected]>); > > Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:43:12 -0800 (PST) > > Received: from lists.plug.phoenix.az.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > > by lists.snaptek.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0BD6F3324; > > Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:43:05 -0700 (MST) > > X-Original-To: [email protected] > > Delivered-To: [email protected] > > Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com > > [209.85.212.54]) > > by lists.snaptek.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE0CEEE18E > > for <[email protected]>; > > Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:43:03 -0700 (MST) > > Received: by vws16 with SMTP id 16so129747vws.41 > > for <[email protected]>; > > Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:43:02 -0800 (PST) > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Received: by 10.52.158.105 with SMTP id wt9mr391477vdb.155.1298518765884; > Wed, > > 23 Feb 2011 19:39:25 -0800 (PST) > > Received: by 10.52.159.164 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:39:25 -0800 > (PST) > > In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> > > References: <[email protected]> > > Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:39:25 -0700 > > X-Google-Sender-Auth: pI2wVF9qECN4Wqe2MRCOzRGATdc > > Message-ID: < > [email protected]> > > Subject: Re: Torrent > > From: "Bryan O'Neal" <[email protected]> > > To: Main PLUG discussion list <[email protected]> > > X-BeenThere: [email protected] > > X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 > > Precedence: list > > Reply-To: Main PLUG discussion list < > [email protected]> > > List-Id: Main PLUG discussion list < > plug-discuss.lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> > > List-Unsubscribe: < > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/options/plug-discuss>, > > <mailto:[email protected] > ?subject=unsubscribe> > > List-Archive: <http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/pipermail/plug-discuss> > > List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]> > > List-Help: <mailto:[email protected] > ?subject=help> > > List-Subscribe: < > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>, > > <mailto:[email protected] > ?subject=subscribe> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Sender: [email protected] > > Errors-To: [email protected] > > X-UNTD-BodySize: 1092 > > X-UNTD-SPF: None > > X-UNTD-DKIM: NONE > > X-ContentStamp: 8:4:586269589 > > > X-MAIL-INFO:2f2d31fd2dd46d6554d1991d40f43da0e18d20d1b0e4f1e18d70fd41e4995d6524d479251174041474d91404d9d9607589941dc4b4c4993055853040eded3985a55d7911b5cd302574ad018504c0a07059c08d79a9a97114752d242475b15124bd9494a40920e099d4c0c084616dedf46d7d5d4030198941151920c961248d192da9fd6124b1f474a9890440d114542d356dd131dd05dd405515897ddd19 > > X-UNTD-Peer-Info: 140.99.58.164|164.plug.phoenix.az.us|lists.snaptek.com > |[email protected] > > X-UNTD-UBE:-1 > > > > A fully legal freely licensed movie of course ;) > > The first few questions are what is the format of said movie, what is > > the file size, and can you play it on your desktop? 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