How to get technical information about a movie (video/audio file)

Here is a little guide for all the people which dont know how to find out the bitrate, framerate, duration .... from a movie.
There are several tools out there to get this kind of information.

GSpot

Can identify all audio and video formats
but it gives not for all file types the same amount of information.

DVD 2 MKV Guide using MeGui

This step is optional and not needed for every DVD, but for the DVD in this guide, this step needed to be made.

If your DVD main movie is splitted into different vob's (VTS_01_1.vob, VTS_02_1.vob, VTS_03_1.vob........),

than you should merge all vob's to 1 big vob file before you encode the movie, cause you dont want to encode every part on its
own.

DVD 2 MKV Guide using Handbrake

..::..In this guide the following Software will be used..::..

1. AvsP 2.02 (Windows ONLY)
2. AviSynth 2.5.8 (Windows ONLY – AviSynth 3 will also have a Linux port)
3. Handbrake (Win/Linux/Mac) http://handbrake.fr

Note: I dont recommend the use of Handbrake for advanced encoders,

but for somebody, who just starts with encoding, this guide will be more than enough.


..::This step is for Windows users ONLY..::..

Ok, lets start. For the fact that the automatic crop function from Handbrake is not everytime accurate, we will use AvsP to get the proper crop settings. You should allways look that you have atleast MOD 4 but for best result you should crop it so its MOD 16 (both width and height must be dividable by 16).

Keep in mind that its better to overcrop a littlebit to get what you want instead of resizing the video.

Open AvsP (you need to have AviSynth installed to use AvsP) and just drag&drop one of the main movie files into AvsP. In this example the main movie files look like this:

DVD 2 MKV Guide using AviDemux

Here is the 3rd DVD 2 MKV guide and this time there will be AviDemux used.
I know that the name of the software is a littlebit confusing but that doesnt matter.

AviDemux is a platform independent tool for converting (and editing) your DVDs
or other formats to avi, mkv, mpg, psp, flv, mp4. AviDemux is the „VirtualDub“
for Linux/Mac (cause it have similar editing features like VirtualDub).

In this Guide the Linux (Mandriva) version from AviDemux is used.

Keeping track of your Torrent files Using tags

For the fact, that i have noticed that there are more and more people,
who have problems with organising the torrent files in their clients,
i have decided to make this little guide.

.:How to keep your Torrent files organised in your Client!?:.

utorrent:
- go into the configuration
- click on Advanced
- click on User Interface
- there you find a field where you can put in your own Group names seperated by "|"
example:
ExB|RTN|EM

P2P File Formats Guide

With this information, you'll be able to handle nearly all file types used in p2p anywhere. Keep reading, ignore the typos and funny accent and you'll get your game / software running in no time.

1 - Common Packages
So you just finished downloading that movie you've been waiting for. Being a cool fella, you're now seeding it... and you're also completely baffled that it seems to be a mess of numbered files, like:

movie.name-GROUP.000
movie.name-GROUP.001
movie.name-GROUP.002
and so on.

If all you're seeing are several files with the same name and no file extension - in the example above, it would be like

movie.name-GROUP
movie.name-GROUP
movie.name-GROUP