Hey UW can you try me again? I have a server side hotlink protection on now but I think someone is getting through it... eating my bandwidth like a kid in a candy store

update...I removed my .htaccess hotlink protection early this am thinking it would speed up my server a bit since I was supposedly protected by LinkSentinel. Well it left me wide open. One IP had taken up more bandwidth than a Hun listing...literally because I have one today so it was like having two. No wonder my server was on the sluggish side...

use the total video converter
search the torrent network with exact these words and download that
it is just 9 mb in size .

How doe one actually know that someone is hotlinking files?

Your server logs should tell the tale. Your bandwidth will shoot up to excessive levels. Depending on the quality and accuracy of your server stats you might be able to pinpoint who is doing it. I first noticed I had referrers with a low number of hits but a large amount of transfer. You can use HTaccess to stop much of it but I haven't been able to get it to stop direct accesses of .wmv files. I can help you with the HTaccess if you want.

I'm using Windows Movie Maker to grab some 20 sec. clips from a 15 min. video but when I try to import the vid I get an error message that the video isn't indexed and can't be imported. Some videos import fine, some give me this error message. How do I get them indexed?

I had the same thing happen before... Is the hard disc or partition that you are downloading to close to full? I can't recall if that was my problem but it seems like it happened when my partition was near full. If so clean up and re-download... hope this might help

I have 126 Gigs of free space but I'll delete the vids and re-download. |confused|

i just can't recall exactly what my issue was...try to download a different video and see if it will work. maybe the dl is corrupt

I found a message board that said when videos aren't indexed to download Windows Media Encoder here:
(Something to do with new codecs |confused| )
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...r/default.mspx

I downloaded it, double clicked it and it installed. But I can't find it and don't know how to run it. I double click the .exe file again and it installs again. What am I doing wrong? The downloaded file is named
wvc1dmo.exe but I don't know where the installed program is |confused| HELP! :D

Not sure if this will help anyone but I got the solution. After the above is installed, click Start, then "all programs" and find Windows Media, then "Utilities". In Utilities, click Media File Editor, click File and find the video you want to re-index. Once it's loaded, click File again and click "Save And Index". You're done.