If you have any good programs to recommend, please e-mail me. Also, don't forget to update your programs. For instance, every 6 months or so, realplayer jumps up an integer and the video quality becomes that much less crappy.

• getright.com The only download program that I've ever used.  The resuming ability is essential considering that I often download movie files.
• Downloadaccelerator.com -I've never used it.
• Godzilla - A popular freeware download program. (I've never used it.)

• Irfanview Multimedia Player - My favorite media player. Use this program to quickly load *.jpg, *.gif, almost any media file. Quickly browse your media collection by hitting SPACE to go forward and BACKSPACE to go back. Edit pictures (not recommended), play movies, sound files, etc
• microsoft.com or the Windows Update button under tools in Internet Explorer is useful for getting Media Player. (I like version 6.4, but the new version has its benefits too. Fortunately you can have both at the same time). Also grab Windows Media Tools which comes with an ASF encoder/editor. The editor works under DOS (Read the documentation)
• real.com Grab the realplayer or realproducer (the basic versions are hidden on the page) there. Realproducer comes with rmeditor, a dos command line editor for rm files. (Read the documentation)
• DivX;-) Home Page Get the DivX;-) codec necessary to play DivX;-) files (Often they have an avi extension) here. The underground DivX;-) compression format, it's the mp3 of the video world. DivX;-) is the hacked MPEG4 codec.

(Note that when playing a DivX;-) movie in mediaplayer, you can click on Properties, then Advanced, then doubleclick on the DivX codec and you'll get a window to adjust your video quality. Neat!
• DivX Digest A pretty good site with a lot of links to editing/converting programs. I recommend getting Virtualdub, w/ subtitler, w/ radium mp3 codec, w/ the DivX;-) codec.
• RM Fixer This page has a rm fixer... I haven't tried it yet. They also have a thing called a size checker, pretty obvious right?
• VirtualDub Homepage - My favorite AVI editing tool. It can convert MPG to AVI, compress AVI using a variety of codecs (including DivX), compress audio, crop videos, subtitle (Subtitling requires the subtitler plug-in), etc.
• Sub Station Alpha - This handy program allows people to subtitle. This program eases the writing and timing of subtitles. A script file (*.ssa) is generated and this file can be used to subtitle AVI files with the VirtualDub program w/ subtitler.

• Winsfv32 Checks to make sure files downloaded are correct. I haven't used this myself yet. This link will take you to Fumei anime where I got it from.
• Size checker Same link as the one above for RM fixer
• zsnes.com Download a snes emulator and waste your life away, hahaha
• Sub Station Alpha (SSA) A subtitling program. Reads SSA files.

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Created: 07-22-00

Last Updated: 10-25-00
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