Broke my downloading record

Where do you get such stuff from - I've been recommended torrent search engines and torrent programs in the past, but so far they've all been s**te. I don't expect a mega-fast download speed as I'm only on a 300k connection, but I should be able to manage about 2 gigs a day, but I tried Azureus once and it was literally sending me stuff at about 6-7kBytes/sec.

demonoid.com You have to be a member and it is a bit torrent site. Azureus will download much faster than that if you get onto a really active torrent.

Fraser

Make sure you're firewall is letting the correct ports through, and try not to use the default Bit Torrent ports as a lot of ISP's are throttling them. I'm on 1mbps Blueyonder, and can get 80k/s on decent torrents.

Every episode? That's impressive considering how long it's been going.

Fraser

Eh?

Hasn't Top Gear been broadcast for _decades?

DVDs right - they come in something along the lines of single-sided single-layer, double-sided single-layer, and double-sided, double-layer - am I right?

Am I also right in thinking that each layer is around 4.7GB, so they'll either have a capacity of 4.7GB, 9.4GB or 18.8GB?

Are the 18.8GB discs fairly freely available, and can the average DVD+/-RW drive write to them ok (assuming it's got double-layer capability - does double-layer also imply double-side capability?) ??

Also, what does 16x mean in terms of actual MB (or KB) per second data transfer rate? What is the "single speed" it's relative to, in actual numbers? (I'm guessing it's relative to some sort of video standard, just as single speed CD-ROM drives were fast enough for standard CD audio).

I'm guessing he's on about the new format, which may well have been about for around that long.

Didn't TG take a break at some point anyway? And how long for?

Just single-layer DVD5, and dual-layer DVD9 I think.

You need a dual-layer burner to burn the DVD9 disks.

Don't really know, do Googlie.

Good idea -

So, Fraser, how d'ya fancy doing a good turn to some of your UK friends? :-D

Easy - don't bother backing up all the s*it you've downloaded :-)

(mirror your HD?)

cheers, clive

I should google more, really.

Also, if you're really clever, you can get DVDs to store a *lot* more. But it'd take years to perfect.

Presumably if they were made, you'd just turn them over to burn - but the only double-sided, dual-layer DVDs I know of, are pressed ones.

DL blanks are still pretty expensive, and burning them can be a little tricky to get reliable.

You'd be best of sticking with 4.7s for the moment - cheap as chips.

Well DVD spec only goes up to about 9.8 mbps (including audio) - although I haven't encountered that many commercial DVDs that are encoded with averages up near there.

Should fit on 5 x 4.7 blanks.

Presumably, as they've been downloaded, they aren't actually DVD-Video material, they'll likely be AVIs and DivX / Xvid?

Yep. This is the new top gear. No Tiff just Clarkson and the Hamster.

Fraser

The new series started october 20 2002.

Fraser

Don't you guys have broadband? There is no way I am sending dozens of dvds to the uk.

Fraser

Heh, I've just done a reinstall (actually involving a whole different PC, but the same HDD) and backed up my stuff by just chucking it to another hard disk. But I missed a folder (generic windows 'Shared' folder that WinMX put stuff in due to me not bothering to point it elsewhere), which contained a

Might be an idea. Thing is, I'm not one for downloading full length films all the time, more just the odd clips, hence if I was to get a new PC I'd probably only bother with an 80GB hard disk.

Aye, they're probably the ones - can you access all 18GB of data without physically turning them over?

Ah right, cheers - I'll remember that.

Is that megabits or megabytes per second? If megabytes, then I make that roughly 7x, if megabits, then I guess it's about right.

It should make Fraser's job easier, he can just simply burn them as files to a DVD-ROM :-)

Awwww, please!!!!

Most of them have got proper broadband - I've only got pikey-band (300k) - that'll take me a week!!

Mind you, a friend has 8MB broadband, though I think it's only 4MB at the moment - I might ask him.