You can download the correct FFE videos (and other useful resources) from this page:
http://ffeartpage.com/utility.htm
Direct download link to the FFE videos:
http://ffeartpage.com/util/ffevid.zip
By the way - I tried the beta. It looks good! There seemed to be some missing textures on living planets though - water just looks like a plain block of colour.
Is this just because it's still in beta?
Yes the texture maps are technically there. It has something to do with the scripts that preload the textures. When I first added the new textures, the ships started losing their textures. To get past that I simply changed the order the game loaded the textures in, so the new textures would be last to load, so if any got dropped they would.
As for the bit torrent thing not working well, that's because nobody is sticking around to seed! A few people have fully downloaded and then bailed. I'd like it if those people would open there torrent back up and seed. My up stream is only 1mbit or so.