How do I play Torrent files?

Question

All my files completed downloading and they end with extention .r00 --- How do I play them with like Windows Movie Maker or quicktime?

Answer 1

You're almost there... you've downloaded the torrent, then used the torrent to download the file(s) ending with *.r00. I assume there are more than one file, with each successive file ending in an incremental (*.r01, *.r02, etc...). There should be one file that ends with *.RAR.

These are WinRAR files. WinRar is a compression program (like WinZip) that can "split" a large file into many smaller files.

You will need to have WinRAR installed on your computer to open these split files and "extract" them into the one large (original) file.

Try downloading WinRAR here: http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar362.exe

Once installed, it should change the way your file icons appear. Find the first file in the series (usually the *.RAR file), then double-click it. Then extract the file that appears inside to a location on your hard drive. This should allow you to "see" the file in it's original form.

Answer 2

You'll need a copy of Winrar.

BitTorrent does not automatically choose the format of the data. Thats down to what files you are downloading. It could be an AVI file, an MPEG, or a ZIP.

What you have there is a spanned archive file, which can be opened using Winrar (and many other archive programs) so that you can extract the movie files which are likely contained inside.

Answer 3

.torrent files are text files that tell your torrent program where to get the links for the media file you want to download. You "play" the .torrent file in your torrent program. (There's no such thing as a torrent media file, there are .torrent files and there are media files. How you play a media file depends on the file type - the letters to the right of the dot in the name.)

Answer 4

you have to unzip them first i think..use something like winzip or winrar.