ARGH! AVI, Requery Sent
 

I run the latest Limewire on my mac running OS 9.2.2, and I seem to have a problem. First off, whenever I search for [edit] and other video files, it normally puts me to a requery sent countdown. Is this because of my firewall? Its a LinkSys router that I configured so the computer is a DMZ host (exposed to internet.) How do I get past this nuisace? Also, whenever I don't get that countdown, I normally get a AVI file that won't open in Quicktime. Yes, i do have the DivX codec. It also wont open in WMP. Any suggestions?

Frankly, I am [really quite pleased] that Mac users are subjected to only one p2p system, which is unstable, a system hog, and ran in JAVA! Why can't we have KaZaA or Morpheus? Are there any plans for a Mac version of these?

You really shouldn't be setting your computer to DMZ if it's going to be accessing the internet.

Go to Advanced - firewall:

Select Enabled
Name: gnutella
Allow
WAN *
LAN (Your machines local IP address - perhaps 192.168.0.100)
TCP 6346

Then click Apply.

And do a little research. If I can find multiple P2P clients for Atari STs then you shouldn't have problems finding them for a Macintosh.

Requeries are just that. If a phone is busy, you dial back later.

Just because you have the DivX codec, doesn't mean you have the appropriate DivX codec - there are many of them. Lots of files will be encoded in DivX 4/5, for example. I'd say that a good 40% of the files that will play on my Linux box with MPlayer, Xine, or aviplay will not play on my GFs Windows machine with WMP or The Playa. (We just don't update the Windows codecs due to spyware, etc.)