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Being a short guide on how to download and watch films from the peer-to-peer (P2P) networks of the internet. More information is available on the XviD download movies page.

Firstly, study the P2P Software User Advisories.

Recommended P2P networks

BitTorrent

Download and use Azureus as a BitTorrent client, use torrentspy as a torrent search engine (other BitTorrent search engines from about.com). Alternatively search for .torrent files with your preferred search engine.

EDonkey

The EDonkey network tends to be more euro-centric than BitTorrent. What this means in practice is you need to be wary of making sure that the film is in the desired local language.

Download and use emule as a EDonkey client, use the search facility built-in to emule or use filedonkey to find content.

Codecs

You may find that either the video or audio (or both) of the film you have downloaded won’t play. A likely cause for this is the film is encoded with a video or audio codec that isn’t available on your computer. Download and install AVIcodec to help diagnose missing codecs. A popular video codec you will almost certainly need is XviD.

Media Players

For windows, windows media player is perfectly adequate. A capable cross-platform player that will play just about anything is the VLC media player from VideoLAN.

Subtitles

Overlay subtitles with Vobsub.

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