Greetings danscatgirl,

I use Vuze, though there doesn't seem to be very much difference between it and uTorrent (and both are free). Using LW limits your torrent downloading in a couple of ways.

I don't know what player you are using; most of us recommend either GOM Player or VLC Player; both are free, have very small footprints, and come with all necessary video CODECs (probably the cause of your playback problem).