Q: What is this site about?
A: MoviesPlanet is a site that allows you to create your own movie list and trade full movies with other users; by giving them access to your personal movie list or being contacted by another member using the site's messenger service, offering you to trade movies with him/her. Even more than this; at MoviesPlanet you can read the latest movie reviews, place your requests in your personal request list, our forums or the chat session, add your FTP server to our site's listings, receive our e-magazine with lots of news about the DivX world, rip and movie reviews weekly or monthly directly into your personal mailbox and do whole lot of other cool stuff! It's fun, it's easy, it works!
Q: How can I create my own Movie List?
A: All you need to do in order to start your own MP (MoviesPlanet) list, is to sign up as a site member, go to the "My Movies" section under Main -> Movies. In that section you will find a link labeled "Add New Movie". All you have to do is to type in the movie descripton and information, and click "Send". You may enter multiple titles in this manner.
Q: How can I download movies from the site?
A: MoviesPlanet does not host movies on it's server, therefor you can not use this site's services in order to obtain these films. The purpose of this site is to allow users to facilitate communication between movie enthusiasts.
Q: What are all the initials I keep seeing?
A: On the site, there are some definitions which are listed as initials.
Movies - Source:
- SCR - Screener
- VHS - Videotape
- LDK - LaserDisk
Movies - Type:
The Type Menu initials stand for the format and codec the movie is encoded with.
These are the explainations of the video formats or codecs
- 3ivX: 3ivx is a MPEG-4 codec that can be used with QuickTime 4.0 as well as DirectShow.
- ASF: Advanced Streaming Format is a MPEG-4 video format that supports streaming by Microsoft.
- DAT: The MPEG1/2 file on an VCD/SVCD/X(S)VCD etc.
- DivX: An AVI file encoded in MPEG-4 with the DivX compression codec.
- M2V: MPEG 2 compressed video standard used on SVCD's or DVD's.
- MOV: Apple's QuickTime Video Format.
- MPEG: MPEG Video files have the .mpg or .dat extension.
- RAM: (RAM or RM) RealNetwork's Real Video streaming format. Usually small Filesizes with questionable quality.
- SMR: An AVI file encoded in MPEG-4 with the SMR compression codec.
- SVCD: Super VCD (Same as VCD but uses MPEG-2 instead of MPEG-1).
- VCD: A MPEG-1 format for play on VCD/DVD players.
- WMV: Microsoft Media Video, Microsoft's MPEG-4 video format.
- XVCD: Can either be MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video format.
A: Imdb is an Internet Movie Database in which you can find information on virtually every movie ever released to the public.
During the years, the IMDB team has collected movie information, written reviews, interviewed actors, and collected photographs of actors as well as movies in the making.
Each movie on the IMDB site has it's own webpage, including a full description of movie, and each movie has a seven digit code number in order to view it.
For example, in order to view SpiderMan's IMDB page, you would go to: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0145487/
In this case, the numbers "0145487" are the code numbers.
When you use an IMDB description for your movies at MoviesPlanet, you can let the users access more details about the movies you offer for trading, and the version of the film.
Q: What are all the icons I keep seeing before usernames?
A: Those icons symbolize the user levels:
- @ - Site administrator
- $ - Forums moderator
- * - Site VIP
- + - Forum VIP
- ~ - Normal user
- ^ - Guest
Q: What is the VIP service?
A: Our VIP service allows you to access exclusive site features such as a private VIP forum, bannerless browsing, user level identification before your name, live instant messenger, access to trailers, site customization and more! The MoviesPlanet VIP service is the premier service for all movie enthusiasts! As well as the basic Movies Planet basic services, your VIP membership will allow you to experience Movies Planet on a whole new level!
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