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Question

i am having problems playing files on wmp 11

Dec 24, 2012 3:53AM PST

When i try to play a torrent file I have downloaded, wmp11 opens it in music category and the movie sounds play but the movie doesnt, what am I doing wrong here?

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For starters
Dec 24, 2012 4:14AM PST

For starters, advertising to the world that you're likely pirating some kind of video by posting here. Then there's not reading the ToS for the site, which prohibit helping with such things.

You won't get any argument out of me that the entertainment industry has been charging extortionist rates for content of rather dubious quality for quite some time now. Just like you won't get any argument out of me that they have bought and paid for some of the best legislation and legislators money can buy in the bulk of the industrialized world. However, the smart person would realize that what they're doing is still illegal, so it is not exactly the smartest move to go announcing on a forum, visible to the entire world, the details of your illegal activities.

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illegal activities?
Dec 24, 2012 4:59AM PST

I dont appreciate your rant on my so called illegal activities, I may not have the best grammar in the world but forgetting a comma in a sentence should not warrant that kind of response!! I was referring to the wmp that I downloaded!!! that was giving me a problem!! next time perhaps you should give someone the benefit of the doubt and consider the possibility that it was a mistake before getting on your high horse and trying to make someone look bad< I see you have near 10k responses to questions here do you even have a life outside?? get a hobby ffs!.
I just needed a question asked and I did read the rules, I just worded it wrong. creep!!

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It wasn't the comma
Dec 24, 2012 6:38AM PST

It wasn't the comma, or any sort of a grammatical issue, that was the problem. The problem was the word "torrent" that you rather conveniently left out of your reposting of this question. While there are a few legitimate videos that can be downloaded by bittorrent, probably 99.9999999999999% are not.

If you can provide some sort of link to prove that yours is the exception to the rule, then I will take back everything I've said thus far. However, until such time as you do, I will stand by my earlier statement.

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are you sure
Jan 19, 2013 5:44AM PST

I also stand by my earlier post you are a creep and im putting it mildly, I would rather have used other adjectives!!

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You didn't reveal the source link to that.
Dec 24, 2012 4:22AM PST

No one can check the content for encoding. If this is pirated content, no one here can help. Maybe the site you get it from has support notes?
Bob

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Re: wrong
Dec 24, 2012 11:44PM PST

Maybe you're using the wrong player.

Kees