eDonkey

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Would you recommend someone who has eDonkey already working fine to convert to emule?
Is it worth the effort?

Haven't used eDonkey. But you can try both.

[Paul Hanson]

I've just come back from uni for Easter, and I've got my computer hooked up to our home network, so I can use the broadband connection. I thought I'd give eDonkey a try, seeing as I now have a fast connection and no over-zealous firewalls blocking me.

I downloaded it, installed it, but it refuses to connect, to any server, no matter how long I leave it. The main server in our house has Tiny Personal Firewall, but it should flash up and alert if an unrecognised program tries to connect in or out of the network; so far it's done nothing.

Why can't I get it to connect?

[Urban Ranger]

If you get the Low ID message, it means you need to open a port. 4662 IIRC, but you can always read the webpage linked by the error message.

[Sirotnikov]

how do i check the ID in the new edonkeys? I've been using it for a while since early versions but i upgraded only recently.

[Skanky Burns]

I had a hardware firewall that I needed to configure before eDonkey would even connect to any server. Since you have broadband that might also contain a firewall.

Siro: Type "g" without the quote marks at the bottom of the page. It will show your stats.

[Skanky Burns]

I found a good reason to switch from eDonkey.

I just finished downloading a 300mb file which ended up corrupted.

[H Tower]

after getting several video files (avi), the sound hasn't worked on any of them. any suggestions?

[Urban Ranger]

Crappy files? Try some alternate ones.

[Asher]

It probably means you don't have the audio codec most likely.

Check into the Nimo codec pack...

[Ted Striker]

Man you are right Asher.

I uninstalled edonkey but it still tries to load on system startup.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher
It probably means you don't have the audio codec most likely.

Check into the Nimo codec pack...

avi? That's like saying your image viewer can't see bitmap files.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
avi? That's like saying your image viewer can't see bitmap files.

No, it's not.
The problem with .avi's today is they rely on a huge array of codecs.

There's about a bunch of different video formats out there (XViD, DivX, MPEG4, ASF, etc) and many of them come in .avi format. What's more, the audio is even different. You need many audio codecs installed for it to work properly in many videos also.

Nimo is a huge collection of the most common codecs in one file.

You really don't think they'd distribute things like movies in stock AVI do you? That'd be crazy...

AVI today is more or less a wrapper format for much more advanced formats.

[H Tower]

The nimo pack worked, thanks asher

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher
You really don't think they'd distribute things like movies in stock AVI do you? That'd be crazy...

Not more crazy than not denoting the file with the proper extension.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Not more crazy than not denoting the file with the proper extension.

While it is quite confusing, it's not wrong per se.

AVI stands for Audio Video Interleaved, and was a media container format by design and implementation.

AVI isn't an actual codec itself, the typical codecs used are stuff like Indeo and Cinepak since they require very low CPU/memory usage, and are what some people mistakenly believe to be real AVIs.

So using an AVI as a container for more modern codecs like DivX, and XViD isn't crazy or wrong.

The "advantage" of using it as "avi" files is any DirectShow program can play them. Which is really useful -- DivX Player, Windows Media Player, Winamp, and tons of other programs actually play videos using DirectShow...

All you need to do is point it to an AVI file, and DirectShow can play it provided you've installed codecs.

Interesting factoid: ASF is essentially AVI 2.0. It's much superior, much less headaches, but people are stubborn and keep using AVI. Much like people use MP3 when there's much better formats out there.