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Playback

Media Player Classic

http://mpc-hc.org/

Advantages

  • Claims to be spyware free
  • Good with CCCP Codec

GOM Player

http://www.gomlab.com/eng/

Advantages

  • Self-contained codec
  • Handles soft subs
  • Handles multiple audio channels

Disadvantages

  • Adware

Potplayer

http://potplayer.daum.net/

Advantages

  • Not VLC

Mplayer Extended

http://mplayerosx.ch/

Advantages

  • Works on Mac

VLC Player

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

Advantages

  • Plays most things
  • Can play both video and subtitles simultaneously if both the video file and the srt file share the same filename together.

Disadvantages

  • Mac users using the latest patch tend to experience freezing and losing control in some occasions. [1]

Mplayer / GNOME MPlayer

https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Advantages

  • Works on Linux

Codecs

Used to playback videos.

CCCP Project

http://www.cccp-project.net/

Good with Media Player Classic.

K-Lite Codec Pack

http://codecguide.com/

Advantages

  • Simpler than CCCP?

Cole2k Media Codec Pack

http://www.cole2k.net/

Xvid

https://www.xvid.org/

Torrent Software

Used to download from our Torrent Tracker using peer-to-peer connection.

Note that all torrent programs can check the integrity of the file.

Tixati

http://tixati.com/

Advantages

  • Ad-free

qBittorrent

http://www.qbittorrent.org/

Advantages

  • Provides the same features as uTorrent.

uTorrent

http://www.utorrent.com/

Advantages

  • Has most features needed for torrenting.
  • Can be used to create torrents for the tracker

Disadvantages

  • Ads (Apparently you can disable the ads on uTorrent)
  • Effective on August 1, 2019 (2019-08-01), all Mac OS Catalina users are required to use uTorrent Web. Any Mac users using previous OS versions can still use both either uTorrent Classic or uTorrent Web. Only OS Catalina or newer versions no longer support the use of uTorrent Classic. [2]

Transmission

Advantages

  • Works on Linux

Checking File Integrity

Rapid CRC

http://rapidcrc.sourceforge.net/

Just drop our files into the program. If it's complete, it's all green. If it's not, your file is broken, and needs to be fixed with a torrent or something.

Video Conversion

Handbrake

https://handbrake.fr/

Advantages

  • Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Disadvantages

  • When you play a rendered file on TV via connecting a USB, you will experience lose control if you attempt to navigate rewind or fast forward with your TV controller.

Creating Subtitles

Aegisub

http://aegisub.org/

Downloading from IRC

Downloading from IRC

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