Bit Torrent geek question

[Triple J]

Alright...I'm a tech retard and need help. 

I downloaded VLC Media Player (and GOM).  Neither will open the bit torrent files from racing underground (I tried two separate ones for the Laguna race).  GOM said I needed the Codec (but its auto find feature didn't find anything), and VLC said it was an unrecognizeable file.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?  I'm on Windows XP.

[derby]

you launched the torrent with a bt client (like vuze, or µtorrent) and downloaded the video that way, right?

the .torrent file isn't the video, it's just how you get the video.

[Triple J]

Nope.  I'll download one of those and try that. Thanks...I figured I was missing a step.

I knew the torrent wasn't the video since it's so small...I guess I thought the players would magically start the download though. Duh. 

[Pakhan]

GOM still makes you download and install them manually even though it finds them for you.  Otherwise they would be breaking numerous laws and would be out of business quite quickly I would imagine. I've never had to look for a codec using VLC and it's XP/Vista/OS X/Linux/BeOS compatible.  That's pretty damn nice.

That sounds pretty good, guess time for me to check out VLC