Newsgroup newbie having a problem viewing videos in newsgroups

Hi, I am new to newsgroups, but I found a great one that has videos of some
of my favorite artists. The problem is when I click on the post, it does its
download, but down in the bottom window, its just a grabled bunch of junk. I
cant figure out how to get the videos to play, OR how to download them to
say my desktop. Can someone help me?

 

Could be binary files, in which case you will need a binary decoder. I
don't use one so can't make any recommendations.

Bill

 

You need to "Combine and Decode". You can get the basics in the
help-files (F1). But it's a pain in the ass, and you'd still need a
third-party utility if they're in a format like yEnc.
Do yourself a big favour, and use a different reader that
*automatically* does all this for you. Even if you only use it for
binary downloads, you'll save yourself a *lot* of trouble.
My preference for this is Xhttp://xnews.newsguy.com/

 

Do yourself a big favour, and use a different reader that

I second this. I use OE for non-binary groups (ones that you can't - er,
shouldn't - post attachments to...like this one), and I use XNews for binary
groups. There was one I liked a while back called Newsleecher. It was still
in its beta stage last time I used it, but it was shaping up to be a nice
program. But I do like XNews, it's great for binaries - although I do find
it a tad akward for non-binary groups.

 

X-No-Archive: Yes
Jason Blankenship typed:

To reinforce trout and ken, Xnews also decodes "yenc", which many vids are
encoded in (bad English, but you should get the drift) ;-)

 

You need to download the whole series and then highlight them all,
rightclick and give the command combine and decode.

 

To assemble a multi-part post using Outlook Express,
click part 1, then, while holding down the Ctrl key,
click each of the remaining parts. When you have
highlighted the last part, Right click and choose
"Combine and Decode." Make sure all parts are in
order in the window that pops up, then click "OK."
When all parts have downloaded and been decoded,
a window will appear with the File Icon in the
bottom left corner (OE4) or in the "Attach"
line (OE5 & 6). Right click on the icon, choose
"save as" and, within the browser window that
appears, choose "Desktop" as the place to initially
save it. If you want to keep it, you can later CUT and
PASTE it from Desktop to any folder you want.

IMPORTANT NOTE: In OE4 it is possible to download
a multi-part binary while simultaneously reading or
posting to other NGs, or reading/sending email -- But:
in the "upgraded" OE5 & 6, downloading a multi-part file
makes the program UNUSABLE for most other functions
while the process goes on; so, if you frequently want to
download multi-part binary files, it's more practical
to use a dedicated news reading and posting program,
such as Agent ("Full" Agent @ $29 -- NOT Free Agent):
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.htm
or Xnews (free):
http://xnews.newsguy.com/
or Gravity (free):
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~tbates/gravity/start1.html
for downloading binaries.
Also, for $35, there is Newsbin, which is strictly
for downloading binaries:
http://www.newsbin.com/ .
You could still use OE5 or 6 as an email program
and to view/post to text-only NGs, while using one of
the above programs to retrieve binaries.

yEnc is a type of binary to text encoding that has much
less "overhead" than Uuencoded files.
Note: OE does not internally decode yEnc messages.
You must use a third-party program to acheive this,
the easiest being yProxy:
http://www.brawnylads.com/software/

Again, I suggest that, for binaries, it would be more
practical to just switch to one of the dedicated newsreaders
mentioned above, which all handle yEnc internally.

RAR files are (usually) large multimedia type of files (.avi,
..mpg, .mov, .rm, etc.) that have been archived and split into
parts. You need WinRar to reassemble the archive and
decompress it. http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
(shareware, but always usable, even after the trial period).