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Torrent fail

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 8:28 pm
by ali baba
I'm attempting to download Orange is the new Black but the torrents keep failing. I've downloaded 6 different torrents and all 6 crash repeatedly.

What to do? :help:

Re: Torrent fail

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 8:42 pm
by djones
Crash? you mean the video file won't play after D/L? Try TPB blue, pink, green skull posters. Or maybe different media player VLC for example

Re: Torrent fail

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:11 pm
by StroppyChops
There are a couple of season torrents on kickass.to that are valid. A lot of the media files seem to be an obscure Matroska container that the players can't handle.

Re: Torrent fail

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:13 pm
by General Mackevili
ali baba wrote:I'm attempting to download Orange is the new Black but the torrents keep failing. I've downloaded 6 different torrents and all 6 crash repeatedly.

What to do? :help:
I'm guessing it's your client.

If 6 different ones failed, that's odd.

Can you be more specific about what's happening?

Re: Torrent fail

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:25 pm
by djones
ali baba wrote: What to do? :help:
Not being rude but as said above please be specific. Nobody can work out if your torrent client is crashing, the downloaded media files are corrupt, or you are trying to open a perfectly fine .mkv file with some media player too dumb to alert you to it's incompatibility or lack of correct codecs ;)

Re: Torrent fail

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:55 pm
by ali baba
The torrents will download for a few minutes before failing.
I restart them, they download for a few more minutes before crashing again.

I'm on uTorrent 3.0

Re: Torrent fail

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:57 pm
by General Mackevili
Hmmmm.....I'm still going with client error...

Re: Torrent fail

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 10:00 pm
by djones
ali baba wrote:The torrents will download for a few minutes before failing.
I restart them, they download for a few more minutes before crashing again.

I'm on uTorrent 3.0
You mean they can't connect to any seeds or peers and stop D/L?
failing and crashing when talking about a PC or program means "it don't work"

Re: Torrent fail

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 10:02 pm
by StroppyChops
Maybe a screenshot of your uTorrent client while it is actually downloading, AB - size the columns to show the peers data. Also, you can PM me a torrent link that's playing up on your machine and I'll try it from here if you want.

Re: Torrent fail

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 10:09 pm
by ali baba
djones wrote:
ali baba wrote:The torrents will download for a few minutes before failing.
I restart them, they download for a few more minutes before crashing again.

I'm on uTorrent 3.0
You mean they can't connect to any seeds or peers and stop D/L?
failing and crashing when talking about a PC or program means "it don't work"
I mean what I said (I think).
uTorrent wrote:Error: The system cannot find the path specified
StroppyChops wrote:Maybe a screenshot of your uTorrent client while it is actually downloading, AB
How do I take screenshots?