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Old April 6, 2003, 06:10   #31
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Would you recommend someone who has eDonkey already working fine to convert to emule?
Is it worth the effort?
Haven't used eDonkey. But you can try both.
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Old April 6, 2003, 07:29   #32
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I've just come back from uni for Easter, and I've got my computer hooked up to our home network, so I can use the broadband connection. I thought I'd give eDonkey a try, seeing as I now have a fast connection and no over-zealous firewalls blocking me.

I downloaded it, installed it, but it refuses to connect, to any server, no matter how long I leave it. The main server in our house has Tiny Personal Firewall, but it should flash up and alert if an unrecognised program tries to connect in or out of the network; so far it's done nothing.

Why can't I get it to connect?
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Old April 6, 2003, 10:00   #33
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If you get the Low ID message, it means you need to open a port. 4662 IIRC, but you can always read the webpage linked by the error message.
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Old April 6, 2003, 20:01   #34
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how do i check the ID in the new edonkeys? I've been using it for a while since early versions but i upgraded only recently.
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Old April 6, 2003, 20:22   #35
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I had a hardware firewall that I needed to configure before eDonkey would even connect to any server. Since you have broadband that might also contain a firewall.

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I found a good reason to switch from eDonkey.

I just finished downloading a 300mb file which ended up corrupted.
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after getting several video files (avi), the sound hasn't worked on any of them. any suggestions?
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Crappy files? Try some alternate ones.
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It probably means you don't have the audio codec most likely.

Check into the Nimo codec pack...
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Man you are right Asher.

I uninstalled edonkey but it still tries to load on system startup.
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It probably means you don't have the audio codec most likely.

Check into the Nimo codec pack...
avi? That's like saying your image viewer can't see bitmap files.
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avi? That's like saying your image viewer can't see bitmap files.
No, it's not.
The problem with .avi's today is they rely on a huge array of codecs.

There's about a bunch of different video formats out there (XViD, DivX, MPEG4, ASF, etc) and many of them come in .avi format. What's more, the audio is even different. You need many audio codecs installed for it to work properly in many videos also.

Nimo is a huge collection of the most common codecs in one file.

You really don't think they'd distribute things like movies in stock AVI do you? That'd be crazy...

AVI today is more or less a wrapper format for much more advanced formats.
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The nimo pack worked, thanks asher
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You really don't think they'd distribute things like movies in stock AVI do you? That'd be crazy...
Not more crazy than not denoting the file with the proper extension.
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Not more crazy than not denoting the file with the proper extension.
While it is quite confusing, it's not wrong per se.

AVI stands for Audio Video Interleaved, and was a media container format by design and implementation.

AVI isn't an actual codec itself, the typical codecs used are stuff like Indeo and Cinepak since they require very low CPU/memory usage, and are what some people mistakenly believe to be real AVIs.

So using an AVI as a container for more modern codecs like DivX, and XViD isn't crazy or wrong.

The "advantage" of using it as "avi" files is any DirectShow program can play them. Which is really useful -- DivX Player, Windows Media Player, Winamp, and tons of other programs actually play videos using DirectShow...

All you need to do is point it to an AVI file, and DirectShow can play it provided you've installed codecs.

Interesting factoid: ASF is essentially AVI 2.0. It's much superior, much less headaches, but people are stubborn and keep using AVI. Much like people use MP3 when there's much better formats out there.
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Would you recommend someone who has eDonkey already working fine to convert to emule?
Is it worth the effort?
Back in the days (December last year), I used eDonkey, and I thought eMule was "just another eDonkey". I was pretty sceptical, but then I finally tried it, and there's no way I'm going back to Edonkey... not much happens with eDonkey, while eMule changes all the time...
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Well, eMule actually works, which is more than I can say for eDonkey.
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I have a 56Kb modem.

Should I change to eMule from eDonkey / Overnet (both of which I use) ?

Or will it introduce no significant improvements?
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I have a 56Kb modem.

Should I change to eMule from eDonkey / Overnet (both of which I use) ?

Or will it introduce no significant improvements?
eMule have a credit system, which means the more you upload, the higher is the chance to download...

I guess this is not good for those people on a 56kb modem...
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The native eDonkey 2000 client should be boycotted with it's annoying ads and pop-ups. Use eMule. No doubt that's the best way to go if you want to use the eD2K P2P network. I'm already too pissed by the credit system of KaZaA Lite and no Gnutella clients seem to work good enough with my connection. I'm now switching between Win MX and eMule for my P2P needs. However the FileFront P2P client is still the one I use most.
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i used edonkey but i was only getting 5kb a second. So i deleted it and installed shareaza, now im getting 500kb a second, plus it looks better than edonkey.
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eMule is so bloody slow. I can't seem to get higher than 3k/s when it should go up to 57k/s, for whatever reason.
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Here's something that might interest all of you eDonkey or eMule users: http://www.sharereactor.com/
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I love that site, very useful. I feared wrath from Ming for posting it, though.
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I love that site, very useful. I feared wrath from Ming for posting it, though.
Just don't tell him then
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I'm sure it's dead useful, but it doesn't seem to load.
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It takes quite a long time to load. But it does (for me anyway).
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the game i wanted wasnt on that site
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