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It’s easy to find subtitles for your favorite movies that you downloaded from torrents. Simply Google search using the EXACT torrent name like “Tropic.Thunder[2008]DvDrip-aXXo” and add a “.srt”. For example:

Tropic.Thunder[2008]DvDrip-aXXo.srt

Google will return results from any or all of the following sites:

• www.opensubtitles.org
• www.subscene.com
• www.subtitlesource.org
• www.sub-titles.net
• www.anysubs.com

These sites could display one or more subtitles for different torrent uploaders. You should download the subtitle which has the exact file name as your movie or one that has indicated the name of the torrent uploader of your movie such as “aXXo”, “FXG”, “FxM”, etc…

Once downloaded, copy or extract (if zipped) the subtitle file into the same folder where your movie is located and that’s it. Make sure that the movie and the subtitle (.srt) file has the same exact file name to be sure.

A movie with a subtitle file

To see if your subtitle is working, simply play the movie and see if the subtitle is correctly synchronized with the audio.

In some cases, if you can’t find the subtitle for your movie with respect to the torrent uploader, you could try other subtitles. Sometimes their subtitles are correctly sychronized with your movie.

We are all fans of these top torrent uploaders. We always visit their respective pages from time to time to see their latest. Checking their pages everyday is a bit time consuming. Using Firefox’s Bookmarks toolbar and built-in RSS reader, you can easily see the latest torrents by each individual without going to each of their respective pages as shown below.

Firefox bookmarks toolbar showing aXXo's latest torrents

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aXXo, FXG, FxM, KLAXXON & NikonXP are my top 5 best torrent uploaders. Unfortunately, there are a lot of other users who upload fake movies. They trick you into downloading their fake movies by adding the name of axxo, fxg or any genuine uploaders into the torrent file names. So if you try to search for axxo torrents for example, surely their fake uploads will appear in the search results. Their goal is simply to waste your time and bandwidth.

That’s why I have provided direct links to each of these users’ torrent lists. You can guarantee that these movies are really uploaded these guys and they are genuine and real DVD rips. If you’re looking for new movies and are not in their list, it means there are no official DVD release yet.

Direct links to aXXo, FXG, FxM, KLAXXON and NikonXp movie lists

• aXXo - http://www.mininova.org/user/axxo
• FXG - http://www.mininova.org/user/fxg
• FxM - http://www.mininova.org/user/fxm
• KLAXXON - http://www.mininova.org/user/klaxxon
• NikonXp - http://www.mininova.org/user/nikonxp

A codec is software that is used to compress or decompress a digital media file, such as a song or video. When you play a digital media file, Windows Media Player uses a codec to decompress the file. Codecs are used to create and play nearly all music or video files on your computer or on web sites.

In other words, you don’t need to install different players for different formats on your computer. But some people prefer a different player other than Windows Media Player for their interface features and functionalities. Whatever your player is, you can use that player to play any video and audio formats as long as you have to right codecs.

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Do you know what BitComet is? It’s a torrent client that you use for downloading torrent files. Besides being a torrent client, BitComet has a stand-alone FLV player and it’s SO small. It’s only about 274kb (at the time of this writing). Top that! It’s the only player that I’ve seen that is so small and yet it has all the necessary features that you need for an FLV player.

You can get BitComet’s FLV player from this page.

BitComet's FLV Player