Torrents

So i downloaded a torrent yesterday i had found of an old game i used to like in my younger years. It is in the form of an ISO file. Can anyone tell me what that is? I tried to open the file and it wants me to choose what application to open it with. Is there something else i have to download that will run that?

An ISO is an image file of a CD. You can either mount it on a virtual drive, or burn it onto a blank CD. I like Alcohol 120% myself, but that's only a 30 day trial unless you get a cracked version. It allows you to create up to 6 virtual drives to mount image files to, which can be pretty handy. It also has the ability to burn CDs/DVDs and such.

If you need any more specific help just lemme know.

I went back to the website i used to get the torrent, and found that the comments suggested Daemon Tools Lite. So i went through that, and uploaded the image. Then i had another problem - it wanted me to get a Macromedia Shockwave Player, finally found that and restarted my computer. When i finally loaded back up i tried to open it and i got this error. What do you think i do from here.

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I'm not sure. I never used Daemon Tools. I know it works basically the same as Alcohol 120%, but I don't know anything about it other than what it is used for. Sorry :/

You can open ISO files in WinRAR. It's a 40 day free trial, but when it's expired it's still usable.

Doesn't that just show you all of the garbage in the file, though?

I think what he needs to do is either burn the image onto a CD or mount it on a virtual drive. I've never heard of actually needing to open it and view its contents. I could be wrong, though.

i extracted it that way and im still getting the bad image error

I recommend daemon tools for image mounting. It free and very easy to use.

who would i go about taking the ISO file into a cd to be burned - do i have to go through DAEMON TOOLS?

Nah. Any good burning software will give you the option to straight copy a CD, or burn files to a CD. Choose the latter and select your ISO file to burn.

after that the cd i burned will take the place of the game itself? correct

after that the cd i burned will take the place of the game itself? correct

It works essentially like this:

Say I want to make a copy of my Diablo 2 Expansion CD. I can make an image file of the entire CD. That would be the ISO file.

If I were to take that image file and burn it to a CD, that CD would, essentially, be a copy of my Diablo 2 Expansion CD.

Just the same, if I were to send that file to someone else over the internet, they could use it to burn a copy of the Diablo 2 Expansion CD as well.

ok so another question. I downloaded 'Epic Movie' just now through my torrent, and went to open it with WMP - it didnt have the codec so i did some searching and found it. Now when i play it i have 0 sound. what do i do?

dont use torrent then if nothing works from it

alot of torrents dont work - but then again a handfull of other games and movies do work - the problem is most of the times people download from a torrent they dont have the correct codec - or just dont understand 1/2 of the program they are using so they dismiss it as an idiot program that doesnt work.

To burn ISO files to a CD, use InfraRecorder.

To play most video and audio formats, use VLC.

Both applications are free and open-source.

what site do you use and ill try it out
after i posted it i got a weird message

To burn ISO files to a CD, use InfraRecorder. To play most video and audio formats, use VLC. Both applications are free and open-source.

thank you chruser - those 2 files need to be stickied - it played my video no questions asked

thanks chruser

Combined Community Codec Pack makes all video work with all programs. It even lets me transcode MKVs with programs that don't understand them.