A few more 

Hey Mgr is here, it's always a pleasure 
Well, as I'm curious, i always experiment the different possibilities offered by a software (Options…) and read (at least partially lol) its help file...which usually brings out new questions ("Super Seeding") or a comparison of utorrent glossary with GT glossary (in Raphjd's thread) etc...

Of course, if an option is too complicated to understand, you better leave it unchanged lol
Or note carefully what was its default in case you dare change it 

Hi all,
Just a couple of uTorrent pics concerning what has been written :

MrMazda wrote : uTorrent do save a copy of the .torrent file for every torrent that you've ever imported in the the following directory by default:
C:\Documents and Settings<username>\Application Data\uTorrent

I don't find any torrent in this folder…because I changed the default a long time ago
As you will notice in the 1st attached pic ("1 - Data and Torrents location.jpg"), all data (movies) and torrents are immediately stored in a more accessible folder, then dispatched when completed. This folder is like a "to be sorted" folder.

Concerning the torrent deletion, utorrent gives a full control of what you want to delete, as seen in the 2nd attached pic ("2 - Remove - Remove And.jpg")

The right-clic context menu offers all possibilities :

1. Remove = Remove the torrent from utorrent (and do nothing else)

2. Remove And :
   2a) Delete .torrent : same as 1) + delete the torrent from disc
   2b) Delete .torrent + data : same as 1) + delete the torrent and movie from disc
   2c) Delete data : same as 1) + delete the movie from disc

It's simple and efficient, especially it asks you a confirmation after you choose a Delete option.

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Hey geographer is here  
Well…I guess we all like our own method to do it lol (underlvr's method works great too, I tried it with MPC, after having read his last post)

A few hours ago, I used MediaInfo to add the technical infos in a torrent I just uploaded.
As I wasn't very satisfied with the preceding default output (i.e the pic "1_quick_infos.jpg" in my last message) then I added a couple of things in the open template script.

Some adding code went like that:  $if(%CodecID/Hint%, (%CodecID/Hint%****))
I forgot the ** and it got me nuts during 10 min, depending on whether the movie had a codecID/Hint or not :crazy2:
Here is how it appears actually in the torrent description page :

Format           : AVI
Length part 1  : 218 MB for 22mn 42s 625ms
Length part 2  : 222 MB for 23mn 06s 867ms
Length part 3  : 221 MB for 23mn 05s 587ms

Video #0        : MPEG-4 Visual (XVID) at 1 201 Kbps
Aspect           : 640 x 480 (1.333) at 29.970 fps

Audio #0        : MPEG Audio (MP3) at 128 Kbps
Infos             : 2 channels, 44.1 KHz

It worked  :cheers:

@twinkletoes:

VLC Player as well!
And, unlike KMPlayer (and GSpot), it is NOT just for Windows
Linux and Mac is supported too

Like twinkletoes, VLC is the player I use most of all
The question is : what is the quickest way to include technical infos in the torrent page ?
I wouldn't like to write them manually, maybe some mistake will be done while writing, or it will take time, also it's boring to write them manually.

Does VLC allow an easy copy of the infos, so you can quickly paste them in the torrent page ?
I tried but couldn't make it (though I didn't search a lot throughout VLC interface)

MediaInfo allows what follows :

• Right click on the movie name in Windows Explorer, then…
• the 2 attached pics reflect some of the different output that immediately appear, then you can copy-paste wherever you like : could it be simpler ?

I have a question related to this :
In some torrents pages (I can't find any now   ) there is a "NFO" part in the left blue column (you know, the column where it's written "Size" , "Rating" , "Added" , "Views" etc…)

How is this "NFO" part filled ? Is it the user that fills it with technical infos or is it automatically filled depending on... ?
And why is it present in some torrents only ?
tia  

Hi Mgr,
I already voted "no opinion", for the same reasons exposed by Brandon and you.

Concerning the codecs, I use the freeware MediaInfo (SourceForge) and it's a great program, as you can see it here.
hXXp://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

Even if we (maybe) will never be allowed to download its source from GT, everybody can download it from the precedent link. Then it's easy to take a snapshot (it adds one line in the context menu of Windows Explorer) or to export some infos in a text file, copy-paste in the torrent description page etc…

I'm pretty sure you already know this program (which is frequently updated) and yes, it will detect codecs that the old GSpot won't detect . I remember having PM you an example of compared detection on a mkv file, not detected by GSpot but detected by MediaInfo, as show in the 2 following links :

Not detected by GSpot :
http://tracker.gaytorrent.ru/bitbucket/1-Gspot.jpg

Detected by MediaInfo :
http://tracker.gaytorrent.ru/bitbucket/2-MediaInfo.jpg

As GSpot had its development stopped 4 years ago (fev 2007), how do you want it to report correct informations when new codecs appear periodically or are updated ?

In case you never tried MediaInfo, please have a look at it.
I'm convinced you'll like it a lot...no matter what you'll do with it after 

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Hi all,
Not a bad idea (though it will help some leechers only), but I would also like some other improvements :

1. no too little screenshots size.
   In some torrents, you find very little screenshots, it's useless.
   Screenshots should have a minimum size, they have to be visible without a microscope.

2. Screenshots should be taken from the movie itself.
   It's not acceptable to include nice screenshots taken from the original site, where pics are always in good quality.
   If you don't upload screenshots extracted from the movie, then as user "778939" wrote, the movie quality doesn't always correspond to the  screenshots quality, which could be very disappointing (a couple of times I downloaded horrible quality movies that i immediately deleted)

3. Minimum of screenshots should be 3, not 1

Just my 2 cents  

4. Before adding this message, a GT message just popped up ("Warning - while you were typing a new reply has been posted. You may wish to review your post.)

@twinkletoes:

Since so few people bother to rate torrents…

Concerning this point, it's not normal that some members rate a torrent very poorly (1 star) when they don't download the movie.
I alerted Helpdesk yesterday about a torrent that just received 1 star, when noone had snatched it and the best leecher had downloaded 48% only !
If you don't like a torrent (because of its genre), why should you rate it badly when you don't intend to download it ? Because it's an anonymous rating ?
Noone wants the uploader to be upset by bad ratings coming from members who won't download the torrents  

My suggestion to the staff was to allow rating only to members that are actually downloading the movie (or members who have already snatched it)

So after I downloaded it, I rated it 5 stars, not only to compensate the silly 1 star rating done by an anonymous member who didn't download the movie, but because I liked it.

Je pense qu'il y a d'autres méthodes, attends que je réfléchisse (en plus c'est vrai lol) mais j'espère que Uwe ou MrMazda (2 Mods) passeront par là pour mieux te conseiller.

1a) Soit tu as gardé le tout petit fichier torrent (encore faut-il savoir où il est stocké sur ton PC)
Alors il suffit de l'ajouter dans ton programme client (j'utilise utorrent mais peut-etre en utilises-tu un autre) (attention, ajouter est différent de créer un nouveau torrent. Dans le cas présent, on ajoute un fichier torrent déjà existant)

1b) Ensuite utorrent ouvre une fenêtre te demandant où tu veux enregistrer le film.
Tu lui indiques l'emplacement exact où se trouve déjà le film, il vérifie (check) que le film que tu as correspond bien au torrent que tu viens d'ajouter. Comme ca correspond, alors il te déclare "seeder", sur utorrent et sur la page du torrent concerné sur le site : c'est terminé.

2a) Soit tu n'as pas gardé le petit fichier torrent (cas le plus fréquent pour moi : je les efface assez rapidement)
Alors c'est assez simple : tu vas sur la page du torrent concerné dans le site, juste pour télécharger le petit fichier torrent vers ton ordi et…

2b) voir 1b) ca continue pareil  

Comme tu vois, dans les 2 cas, tu n'as pas à uploader le film ou à créer un nouveau torrent : c'est juste le petit fichier torrent dont tu as besoin, que ce fichier torrent soit sur ton PC ou sur le site. Et bien sûr, il faut que tu aies gardé le film.

Si tu as des questions concernant ce qui précède, n'hésite pas

Salut Chris
Ca veut dire que l'utilisateur nvkat a appuyé sur le bouton "Request Re-seed" (demande de re-seed) dans le torrent suivant, en bas de page :
http://tracker.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=65718&filelist=1&dllist=1

Dès qu'il a appuyé, ca envoie un message à 50 (?) personnes qui ont téléchargé ce torrent, dont toi, afin que quelques-uns aient l'amabilité de seeder ce torrent à nouveau, afin qu'il puisse le télécharger.

En général on fait ça s'il y a très peu de seeders (1 ou 2) et que ca va prendre un temps infini pour télécharger.
En attendant, nvkat a déjà fini de télécharger ce torrent aujourd'hui (tu vois son nom et la date/heure de fin de téléchargement dans "Snatch Details" en bas de la page, cad ceux qui ont fini le téléchargement)

Peut-être que d'autres personnes ayant recu le même message que toi ont déjà re-seedé le torrent, car il y a 6 Seeders maintenant et, j'ai testé, ca se télécharge au moins à 200Ko/s (pour un "petit" fichier de 160Mo, ca ira vite)

Arrivé à 200Ko/s j'ai tout arrêté lol

PS: ce bouton "Request Re-seed" est TRES dangereux car il n'y a pas de confirmation demandée. Je pense que c'est une grosse lacune de ne pas avoir programmé une confirmation de demande, car envoyer un PM à des dizaines de gens, c'est pas la joie si on a appuyé par mégarde sur ce bouton…ca m'est arrivé une fois (j'avais fait exprès d'appuyer dessus, dans un torrent où très peu l'avaient téléchargé, pour voir si ca demandait de taper un petit mot d'accompagnement, ou une confirmation quelconque. Penses-tu, c'est parti de suite !)
Il a vite fallu envoyer des PM privés pour s'excuser  ;D

@aiweelie:

I welcome your opinions but not like this. Hiding behind some anonymous "we." Other than you who is part of your "we"?

Hi aiweelie,
"we" meant nothing special.
I simply had in mind the 288 users who read this topic at the exact time I wrote this sentence

Hey guys  
This race discussion won't bring anything good, each of you two will answer the other one and it will get worse.
We all read your arguments (i read you 3 times now) and understood what you both meant.
I'm sure both of you aren't happy the way this topic goes now, so why not stop answering (please) ?

It's not a sign of weakness to stop arguing, even if you both think are right.
On the contrary, it shows a mental strength ("i can stop answering even if i think i'm right and i will stop answering right now because i would like things to calm down")

Please staff, discuss it internally and choose the best word who will agree to the majority of you, update the list and everybody will be happy again.
Hugs to (alphabetical order lol) Aiweelie & Uwe  :hug2:
Not forgetting our unforgettable Leatherbear !  :hug: