Rtorrent is one of the most popular torrent client for Linux users. Itssuperior downloading speed makes it one of the most sought after torrent client. But what hinders most people from using it is the lack of a nice GUI. Though a number of web based front ends are now available for rtorrent, they are not so popular with the users. Also power users are comfortable with the command line interface. This tutorial provides a step by step introdcution to using rtorrent. From installing to torrent creation.

Cron is a time-based job scheduler to run commands, gui applications, shell scripts etc. This howto explains running a GUI application using cron. Cron can be used to automate downloading by starting some applications like wget,gwget,rtorrent,deluge... at a specified time. In Ubuntu and Debian based systems cron is run as a deamon. Type the following command in terminal to check whether cron is running:

 

MEncoder is a free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool released under the GNU General Public License. This tool is closely associated with mplayer.Mencoder is a companion program to the MPlayer media player.