Torrents!? lord help

[WhySoSerious]

coming from a windows bassed machine, i used uTorrent; however, this is not available on Macs.

1. would someone be so kind to provide a usable/easy program for torrents that are relatively self-working (in laymen terms....a program that doesn't require some Mac genius to run)

2. some torrents i hear won't run in QuickTime because of a thing called "Xvid"...? do i need to get this and how do i incorporate it into QuickTime to work?

thanks!

[bousozoku]

Opera, the web browser will handle downloading Torrents for anyone.

[lucasc896]

Transmission is a good torrent client. Also, to play xvid or divx in quicktime, just get the codecs or try 'democracy player'.

[Eidorian]

1. Transmission (http://transmission.m0k.org/) or Transmission Nightlies (http://transmission.bogg.org/) (My preference on the bleeding edge.)
2. Use VLC (http://www.videolan.org/) or Perian (http://perian.org/) for Quicktime.

[Simon1966]

I use a program called Azureus - just download your Torrent file and drop in download area and hey presto!

download here: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/



regards Simon

[squeeks]

transmission is awesome, coming from azerus on the pc, even though thats available on mac, transmission is far simplier to use, and works wonderfully...

p.s. there's an entire forum just dealing with mac applications right here (http://forums.macrumors.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2) this forum is for macbook and macbook pro questions;)

...though i do like the people who hang out here better then them people :D

[Kilamite]

+1 for Transmission.

Simply the easiest Torrent application to use - looks really sexy too.

[squeeks]

looks really sexy too.

im not sure about that, its a pretty basic window:p

http://image.versiontracker.com/scrnsht/79101/268126/49Transmission-200602111757.png

[WhySoSerious]

transmission is awesome, coming from azerus on the pc, even though thats available on mac, transmission is far simplier to use, and works wonderfully...

p.s. there's an entire forum just dealing with mac applications right here (http://forums.macrumors.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2) this forum is for macbook and macbook pro questions;)

...though i do like the people who hang out here better then them people :D


I just purchased a MBP 17" and wanted to stay in this community. Sorry for the confusion, I can go to another area.

thank you all!

Transmission is a good torrent client. Also, to play xvid or divx in quicktime, just get the codecs or try 'democracy player'.

getting teh codecs is just a matter of d/lding the file, right? But where do i place/install that file? in the QuickTime folder or just under Apps?

[squeeks]

I just purchased a MBP 17" and wanted to stay in this community. Sorry for the confusion, I can go to another area.

thank you all!

well, like i said, i do like the people in this paticular forum better, the some not all, seem to be a little too protective of their macs when software starts acting up, ive been accused of screwing up the program several times when it was a software area..but yeah

VLC looks neat, i love how websites that have multi os versions of its software give you the link for the OS you're using, i never realized sites did that until i started using a mac

getting teh codecs is just a matter of d/lding the file, right? But where do i place/install that file? in the QuickTime folder or just under Apps?

there might be install scripts with them, or readmes ;)

[Eidorian]

getting teh codecs is just a matter of d/lding the file, right? But where do i place/install that file? in the QuickTime folder or just under Apps?I suggest reading my previous post (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070816-major-skype-outage-in-progress-12-24-hours-for-a-fix.html).

It's up to you if you want to use VLC as your main video player, it supports the Apple remote too, or just use the Quicktime plug-in.

[interlaced]

This is another vote for Transmission!

[Samwise592]

+1 for Transmission

[Sorkvild]

transmission FTW

[filmgirl]

I like Transmisson's profile, but I actually swtiched back to Azureus (and I'm not an Az fan, so that was interesting...) because I got frustrated with certain interface aspects (it's very simple - too simple - I miss uTorrent SO much) and selective downloading isn't as functional.

Both are good - Az has memory issues - Transmission is as lightweight as uTorrent but not as functional. I read somewhere that the Mac development guy dropped out of the OS X uTorrent conversion - I hope they found a replacement.

[daneoni]

Another vote for Transmission here

[Kilamite]

im not sure about that, its a pretty basic window:p

Really? You must be using a pretty outdated version if yours looks like that!

http://idisk.mac.com/ross_t/Public/trans.png

[jackiecanev2]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; Sprint:PPC-6700; PPC; 240x320))

another vote for transmission. but for those who love utorrent, read this:

http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-for-mac-is-coming-an-early-review/

just something to look forward to. :)

[squeeks]

Really? You must be using a pretty outdated version if yours looks like that!



stole the image off of version tracker, i thought it looked funny...

[Chris F]

Transmission is nice but does not support encryption so if your ISP uses traffic shaping to throttle p2p traffic you may wish to use Azureus. (and even then you may be screwed)

[vicious7]

Transmission is nice but does not support encryption so if your ISP uses traffic shaping to throttle p2p traffic you may wish to use Azureus. (and even then you may be screwed)

I just noticed this. I was using Azureus and out of curiousity, I downloaded the latest version of Transmission. It is a very light and clean client but I did get some sort of pop-up from my ISP about traffic shaping. I should've read it first before clicking it closed.

Any way around the ISP playing around with p2p traffic?

[Shorties]

Transmission looks good I wished I knew about it earlier, but right now I am downloading something really big that I don't want to switch clients on. I currently use Tomato Torrent, which I really enjoy, previously I was using the official client and had really bad speeds and had trouble shutting down my computer. I just can't wait till uTorrent comes to macs that is one of the things I miss most about windows.

[Chris F]

I just noticed this. I was using Azureus and out of curiousity, I downloaded the latest version of Transmission. It is a very light and clean client but I did get some sort of pop-up from my ISP about traffic shaping. I should've read it first before clicking it closed.

Any way around the ISP playing around with p2p traffic?

It depends on the throttling implementation. If they implement it well even encryption will not help. For example torrent traffic is easy to detect despite encryption, just look for a ton of outgoing and incoming connections to a certain ip:port and throttle based on that however implementations vary so encryption may help.

[Catgofire]

My votes for Azureus, Transmission, and VLC.

I used to use Azureus, and still prefer its options to Transmission's, but Transmission is getting better with each release and my GOD is it faster than Azureus (not downloading... just in terms of its tiny CPU usage).

[Catgofire]

.... but I did get some sort of pop-up from my ISP about traffic shaping. ....

Who is your ISP and why do they have software installed on your computer? I would recommend switching ISPs if possible... they shouldn't have anything but a passive relationship with your computer.

[shu82]

VLC is a duh.

If you are coming from XP as I was. I used Azureus on both sides, and yes utorrent is the best. On this side Azureus is the only game in town unless you like oversimplified programs that have become ever too prevalent lately in OSX (Cough..Transmission...Tomatotorrent....Cough).

Also torrent programs are slow in osx. I hate to be like that, but I used to keep a P3 lappy around just for utorrent. Now my Macs have become powerful enough to outperform the p3. But I would still recommend utorrent even in parallels.

[vicious7]

Who is your ISP and why do they have software installed on your computer? I would recommend switching ISPs if possible... they shouldn't have anything but a passive relationship with your computer.

They don't. But I did get a pop-up about traffic something. Maybe I'm just paranoid. I didn't get any pop-ups when I first ran Azureus

[Catgofire]

They don't. But I did get a pop-up about traffic something. Maybe I'm just paranoid. I didn't get any pop-ups when I first ran Azureus

They've got something on there if you're getting pop-ups from them...? [edit: oh, unless it wasn't from them.]


Oh, and something I just realized: Transmission gets in the way of Transmit (ftp client) if you're using Quicksilver =P. What a nuisance.

[ataylora]

BitTorrent (http://www.bittorrent.com/)

[zblaxberg]

I use a program called Azureus - just download your Torrent file and drop in download area and hey presto!

download here: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/



regards Simon

I use this too, works great!

[Chris F]

Who is your ISP and why do they have software installed on your computer? I would recommend switching ISPs if possible... they shouldn't have anything but a passive relationship with your computer.

They probably don't have anything installed on his machine. Azureus keeps a database of ISPs known to use traffic shaping and if it matches your host/ip to the database it asks you if you would like to use encryption.

The traffic shaping itself is done at the router or head end level and has no user interaction.