On downloading television shows...

[nowalmart]

I have been without a television for several months now, so I have resorted to downloading episodes of shows I want to see. In the past I used Azureus and its RSS handling abilities. As the program has grown into the Vuze monstrosity, I have been moving over to other things if possible.

The first step was moving to an RSS downloader to automatically download .torrent files. With minimal work I got RSSDler working. Great, so now I have a folder full of .torrent files.

I tried several command-line BitTorrent clients, but I either could not get them installed or could not get them working effectively. rTorrent looks the most promising, but I never could get it to work. I will have to give it another try soon. The other option would be cTorrent, although I am not sure cTorrent supports a watch-folder, so a little more work would have to go into getting that to work.

In the meantime I have continued to use Azureus, set to watch the folder RSSDler is downloading to. It works, but moving to a non-GUI client would be nice.

Comments

[gogo.livejournal.com]

I can't recommend any CLI torrent apps, but Transmission works much better (and is much lighter) than Azureus. Also, look up TVShows for snagging torrents of specific shows.

[nowalmart.livejournal.com]

I gave Transmission a try about six months ago and found it was noticeably slower than Azureus (I first loaded a .torrent in Transmission, then reloaded it in Azureus).

I might give it another try, but since I want to load the BT client and then forget it, a CLI client might work better for me.

[singitsilent.livejournal.com]

I second the transmission/tvshows remark.