Posted by rhino on 01/08/08 06:45

"Netmask" <netmask56NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "rhino" <No.offline.contact.please@anonymous.com> wrote in message
> news:fltt80$s6m$1@news.datemas.de...
>> I'm not sure if this question even makes sense so forgive me if it
>> doesn't.
>>
>> For the last year or two, I've been downloading TV programs that I wasn't
>> able to watch due to my work schedule, watching them, then deleting them.
>> I'd normally download files that were AVIs, even though they didn't
>> always specifically say they were AVIs. However, some of the shows that I
>> follow only seem to be available in a format called "caph" (at least
>> "caph" is part of the title of the file.)
>>
>> Unfortunately, when I download a "caph", I have no idea what to do with
>> the files. How do I play them? Do I need to run them through a conversion
>> program of some kind to turn them into AVIs (or some other format
>> playable on my DVD player)?
>>
>> I prefer to watch TV programs on my TV, not on my computer, which is why
>> AVIs were so nice: they would play in both places.
>>
>> Can someone tell me what I need to do with these "caph" files to make
>> them playable, preferably on both the computer's DVD player and the DVD
>> player connected to my TV, which is a Pioneer DVP 642/37.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Rhino
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> Was the file you downloaded called something like this?
> Blah.S03E22.HDTV.XViD-Caph
>
Yes, that's right.

> If so this is just the Torrents pointer file and you have to then use it
> to download the avi file. So you will need a progam like Azureus or
> uTorrents etc.
>
> There are no files that actually have a suffix called caph
I already have Azureus and I used it to download the file. But the file I
got was NOT an avi. It was something else I'd never seen before. It was
about two months ago and I deleted the file so I don't remember what format
it actually was. Sorry, I know that is probably no use to you at all. I'm
not actually computer illiterate or stupid; I just don't know my way around
all the ins and outs of the file formats that you can download with
torrents.

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Rhino
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