Downloading films from Internet

[Tony Balony]

After 26 hrs I have just downloaded a film from a website (not smutty)! The only thing is, it has been saved as type *.cue amd *.bin neither of which are recognised by Windows Media Player or Real Player. Any suggestions how I view my film would be greatly appreciated?

[j2buttonsw]

Use an application like Fireburner to burn it to a CD. The .cue/.bin are CD images.

[Tony Balony]

Cheers j2buttonsw. Can I downlaod Fireburner from a website? And will this convert the .cue to .mpg?

[j2buttonsw]

Download it from here: http://www.fireburner.com/ The resulting CD will probably be a VCD playable on most computers or an .avi or .mpg file.

[Phantaxus]

or you can mount the imagae file using a free application called daemon tools see http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/index.php for more details

[Mattk]

nero also recognises iso's(image files)

[ian.miller]

Tony, a cue and a bin file are not film formats in themselves. They are called image files and basically is wrapping of all the files that would otherwise be on a CD or DVD so they can be distributed in a couple of files.

Think of them as a box, with many bits inside, you need software to open the box, not to actually view the stuff inside.

You have 2 choices,

You either burn the cue/bin files onto a CD using anyone of a number of programes. then when you view that CD it would have one or more movies files (mpg/mov/wmv/avi) on it.

Or with Daemon tools you can create a virtual drive and trick your PC into thinking you have done this burning process, but you can access the files on it just as if it was a normal CD