Dark Light Angel said:
*sigh*I gotta wait till Monday to watch the ep.*waits*I'd download eps off the internet but I tried that and I don't have the right stuff to watch them. ;_;
Hey, now heres a question bgt can answer. Ok, if you can't watch the episodes this is the problem. You do not have the correct codecs to view the video that it was encoded in. Most fansub/dvdrip groups encode in either XVID or DIVX, and now sometimes in Matroska. Well, to solve that problem, there is a media player that will basically play any media you find out there, don't even have to install codecs since it doesn't use the directx directshow codecs. Go to
www.videolan.org to download the player.
Now as for how to download episodes. I don't want to go into high detail because that would take alot of pages, but anyways, here goes. Theres two main sources out there that groups distribute media on. Bittorrent and IRC. Bittorrent is basically P2P where you open up a .torrent file with a BT client and it will connnect to the tracker and to all your peers and seeds. Peers are people that are downloading with you and do not have the complete file, Seeds are users which have the complete file. You need at least one seed to have a complete file. There are a couple of clients which you can download, but I would recommend BitTornado which can be found at
https://www.bittornado.com. Now, you may be wondering, I have the client but where do I find the .torrent files to even start downloading. Well, there are some bittorrent sites out there, some anime related, some not. One great animated tracker/bt site is
www.boxtorrents.com. There is also general bt sites for anything you want such as
www.bi-torrent.com or
www.torrentreactor.net or
www.piratebay.org. Boxtorrents mostly has only subbed anime, so if thats what your type, then I would recommend the below for dub inuyasha. Stupid dub, smashes dub... anyways... Heres one IRC related group that releases on both BT & IRC.
https://tracker.majin2007.com:6969
Thats the link to the tracker, but anyways. Now that you've found some torrents, you can basically just open them with your client or just double-click if they are associated with your client. Once opened, it will ask you for a download spot on your computer, specify and it starts connecting and downloading. Also, you may be wondering, what if my computer shuts down. You can resume your download just be reopening the .torrent file and selecting the same download directory as you did before and it will start data checking and then start back to downloading again. Now on to the IRC section
IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. As you can see, if you look at your above PC links, you should see something like User CP, FAQ, Rules, Members List... etc, etc. Well, the 6th option is Chat. Aren't you just wondering where that chat is really? Well, it connects to a server, irc.dejatoons.net. Once, connected to this server, theres are channels, chat channels if you will, etc, well, basically, that java client makes you join #free_pokemon. (lol, this is where im halfop at...) This is just the basics of IRC, just joining and chatting. You may notice in this or any other chat channel that some users have symbols beside their names. Well, that denotes power within the channel. %, @, &, ~. Halfop, Operator, SuperOp, Owner. Halfop basically can ban and kick you from a channel and voice a user. what a voice does is allows a user to speak during the time a channel is moderated, which means that only voiced users or higher can speak. Anyways, theres other servers than just dejatoons. The server im going to talk about in perticular is Rizon. irc.rizon.net has many fansub & dub groups. You may join a group's channel one day and notice something said about XDCC bots? well, these are basically the users that have files. You may ask, how do I find out what files does this bot contain. Well, thats easy, just a quick command of
/msg nick xdcc list Nick = nickname of user. If accepted, you will be noticed a list of packs that it has of files. To highly simplify this down since im tired of typing, just correspond the pack # to your file name. msg the nick with
/msg nick xdcc send #. such as for example, if i wanted pack #1 which was file name
inuyasha - ep 61 and the nickname that had the file was happyday. i would type
/msg happyday xdcc send #1. You may see something such as queues, well, that just means your in line to download. I would have explained the irc commands more through but im tired of typing, as you can see, lol. Anyways, I hope this helped someone at least in some way...