XviD-WPi - What to do?

[NoOp]

On 07/05/2009 02:14 PM, Brian McKee wrote:
> 2009/7/4 Graham Watkins <shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com>:
>> I recently downloaded the above from a torrent.  I have no idea how to
>> play it or do anything else with it.  Ideally, I would like to burn it
>> to a CD or DVD.
> 
> Generally speaking, you have to be able to play it to transcode it for
> a DVD.  So if you can't even watch it you are at step zero.
> 
> I've never looked at one, but 'wpi' according to wikipedia is some
> sort of windows installation tool which would make me pretty leery of
> it, especially if you got it off an unofficial torrent.
> 
> You could try running the 'file' command against it to see if it
> identifies it better. e.g. file torrent.xvid.wpi
> 
> Unless someone else has more info about these 'wpi' files, I'd go look
> for a regular avi/mov/divx/xvid
> 
> Brian
> 

I guess that I'd first ask the question why the OP downloaded "XviD-WPi"
from anywhere without first knowing what to do with it.