Frequently Asked Questions

What is FlixFlux?

FlixFlux is a website with the aim of making it easy to get hold of the latest and most popular film, movie and dvd releases via bittorrent.

Sites like MiniNova and PirateBay do an excellent job of hosting torrents, but because they receive hundreds of new torrents a day is can sometimes be hard to sift through them to find what you are after. Especially when you don't know exactly what film you're looking for, you just want to get hold of something good to watch.

This site makes it easy to see what new film releases are out, and if there are any torrents!

How do I download the films?

The search results page contains links to torrent files. These are not actually the films themselves, but files that contain information about the film file. To make use of the torrent file, and download the film you need a Bit Torrent client such as Azureus.

For more information about Bit Torrent have a read of this FAQ.

Is this site illegal?

No. There aren't any copyright files stored on the FlixFlux servers. In fact, there aren't even any torrent files! This site simply provides an aggregation service similar to that of Google News. However, downloading the films via BitTorrent may be illegal in your Country.

What is the site's copyright policy?

As stated above, no copyrighted files or torrents are hosted on this site. If you've got a problem with any content then please contact the source of the information, or contact us to pass along the complaint

What is the site's privacy policy?

No user activity is logged, or ever will be. You are free to use the site without logging in. The sole purpose of the user account feature is to provide user based feature such as "my films".

What is the difference between a CAM, TS or RIP?

In the search results you may notice that files are listed with tags such as CAM or TS. These tags refer to the quality of the copy. Descriptions of each of the tags is given below:

A recording taken at a cinema onto a digial video camera. The picture quality is usually fairly bad, as is the sound.
A telesync is the same as a CAM except it uses an external audio source, so the sound quality is usually much better.
A telecine is a digital copy of the film reel. The quality should be good.
A copy of pre-release VHS tape, usually contains a copyright message at points during the film.
Same as a normal screener, except copied from DVD, so the quality is much better.
A copy of the final release DVD.Usually excellent quality.

For more information see this TorrentBox forum post.

How can I play the downloaded film?

It depends what the file format is. If the downloaded file is a .rar or .zip then it is a compressed archive containing you video. You'll need to extract the video before you can play it back, using a program like 7 Zip.

If the file format is .avi or .mpg then you can play the file directly with VLC media player. Even if the file has a different extension try VLC anyway, it can play almost everything! If you're still having problems getting something to play then as a question on the forum.

How can I get in contact?

If you want to ask a question about this site, leave some feedback, or make a feature request, you can use the forum.