How do you open a torrent once its downloaded to view. I downloaded a movie off bittorrent and can't open it

Answer 1

BitTorrent is not like other peer-to-peer applications (such as Winmx, Kazaa, Gnutella, etc.) in that it does not have its own "universe." Put another way, BT lives on top of the Web, which means that all of the searching/listing of available files is done on the web. When you find a file you want to download, you click on it and the BitTorrent client program will run and ask you where to put it, and then start downloading. See the links section for some starting points on the web if you're new.

I just installed BitTorrent but whenever I click on a link I just get a small file and nothing happens?
Try closing and restarting your web browser. When BitTorrent installs, it registers a new MIME-Type (application/x-bittorrent) and this change will not take effect until the next time the web browser is opened.

What is this Mandrake thing I'm invited to download after BitTorrent?
You don't need it. Mandrake is a full Linux distribution, a replacement Operating System. It is an example of the kind of thing that BitTorrent was designed to distribute -- large programs which, upon release, cause a flood of eager downloaders. In other words, it's not related to BitTorrent in any way, it's just something a lot of people might be interested in.

Answer 2

You need a program such as BitComet to open the torrent and actually download the movie. The file you downloaded only contains a set of instructions that tell another program where to find the movie you want.

Answer 3

Try downloading the windows media player beta 11 and dvix. To view the file go to your my computer/c drive/program files and look for the place that you downloaded the torrent from there and then when you open it look for download file.The new media 11 and dvix puts in the codec that you need to watch your movies

Answer 4

*BEST ANSWER* i use azureus. You will have to google "azureus" and download a free version of it. It shouldn't be hard too find. Once installed, Azureuz will automatically open up if you try and open the torrent and download it.