Welcome to help section for AnimeHQ, here you can find a range of FAQ's and Answers as well as some tutorials on various topics related to AnimeHQ such as using our IRC channel.

Answer: To contact AHQ you can either look at our profiles on the site and find contact details there, or you can go onto our IRC channel (shown on site banner) and find any of our staff members there (we will have an @ by our nickname). If you do not know how to use IRC read the tutorials we have provided which explain how to use IRC, as well as how to download files such as full episodes via IRC.

Answer: If you are interested in encoding for AHQ the first thing I would suggest you do is to do your homework on encoding, this can be done from a variety of different sources. First of all you could find some encoding books, however the cheaper and faster alternative would be to search the internet somewhere such as google.com or by going to a well known encoding site like doom9.org and checking out their tutorials and forum which is at forum.doom9.org . Once you have got some experience in encoding you can go onto our IRC channel and ask one of our operators (the people with @ by their nick) for more assistance on joining, before doing this I suggest you make a few samples showing the kind of quality you can create (of course this will hopefully increase once you join as you will be given new advice on encoding techniques). If you are not going to be dedicated to spending time encoding for us and are planning on doing low quality encodes in the quickest time possible I suggest you dont apply since you will not be accepted. Apart from encoders we also require translators, so if you can speak Japanese and English we would be very interested in you joining our group, if this is the case please contact a channel operator either via IRC or other contact methods.

Encoding is not the only way in which people can contribute to the group, we are also looking for people who can do the following jobs:

VOB Providers - This is a person who provides VOBs (DVD Video Files) to AHQ for our encoders to work with, we are especially interested in people who can get DVD's before the official release (e.g. you work in a shop selling DVD's), but as long as you can provide VOBs for Anime's we are interested in its all good.

Seeders - We are looking for people to seed (upload to others) our bittorrent files to keep the method going (more details in the "How to Seed" bittorrent section)

File Servers - For our IRC channel we require File Servers to distribute our releases to others, to do this you will need a modified version of mIRC such as Polaris or Invision.

Scanners/Rooters - On IRC we provide XDCC bots which serve out files to our users (check the IRC tutorial for the differences between Fserves/XDCC's for the difference), to provide these bots we need people who can scan for possible bots and people who can root them.

Translators - One of the area's of Anime encoding we would like to move into (as well as mainting the current DVD encodes) is Fan Subbing, this is where we take Anime Episodes/Movies not yet released in English and add subtitles. To do this we need translators who can speak Japanese and English and translate the Japanese for us so that we can add the subtitles to our encodes.

Web Site Staff - To help keep our website up-to-date and provide the users with new content we need Web Site staff, the types of tasks we are looking for staff to do are:
Graphics, Reviews, Wallpapers, News, Web Coding, and Media Hosting.

Dump FTP's - To reward a large number of our staff we provide a distro room on IRC, this is where we have exclusive file servers who send them our latest releases before they are available to the general public. Apart from IRC distribution we also use FTP's on high speed connections (Anthing beyond about 100K/s upload), if you are interested in running an FTP for us we will provide you with our latest encodes before they are available to the public (as well as some older ones) in return for you allowing our distro members to download them from you.

Typesetter & Raw Providers

Answer: First of all you should only work for AHQ if you think you are going to enjoy it not because you want to get given rewards for doing so, however we do provide a distro channel with exclusive file servers providing unreleased episodes and dump FTP's to the majority of our staff in return for their services.

Answer: If you have your own websites and are interested in partnering with Anime-HQ.com please contact either or Phoenix with the details. We will however only be accepting sites of what we believe are high quality and which have had lots of hard work put into them.

Answer: Adobe Photoshop - This was used for the sites graphics
Text Editor (any plain text editor such as notepad can be used for coding)
MySQL - We used MySQL for our online database
PhpMyAdmin - To administrate our SQL DB we used PhpMyAdmin
PHP - We used a PHP server so that our PHP scripting worked

Answer: Bittorrent is a new method of file sharing but is unlike your usual peer-to-peer program such as kazaa. To use Bittorrent you must first download a .torrent file, this contains all the necisarry data required for your download such as file name, size, as well as tracker location. The tracker is basically the server which manages all the requests for files being download/uploaded as well as producing stats for websites. The people who upload the files to you are called Seeds, to seed a file you simply download it and then leave the window open, Bittorrents rely on people seeding to work (because with 0 seeds who would be there to upload to you) therefore please help out if you use our .torrents and leave the window open for as long as possible once the download is complete.

Answer: To download a file using Bittorrent you must first install the Bittorrent client on your computer from the following site:

Once that is complete go to our bittorrent section and download the appropriate .torrent file (depending on what file you want to download), then when this is complete simply open the file as you would any other. When you have done this you will be asked to choose a location on your hard drive to save the file to, once complete the file space will be allocated and the download will begin (make sure you have enough space because even if the download is incomplete it will still take up the same space as the final file would). After finishing your download please leave Bittorrent open so that you can seed the file and help others get it, this helps increase the overall speed and if everyone takes this approach it will help you in the long run getting files in the future.

Answer: Seeding is simply the process of doing your part in keeping the .torrents running and sharing your completed file with other downloaders. To seed a file is simple, first make sure you have downloaded the file using the method talked about in "How to download using Bittorrent". When this is complete the first method you can use to seed is to simply leave your bittorrent client window open once the file is complete and seeding will take place automatically, if however you have closed the window to seed again you simply need to open your .torrent and rather than allocating space for the file you select your completed file and seeding will comence (dont worry your file will not be overwriten).

Answer: To play the files you will first need a media player, if you are using Windows you should have Windows Media Player built in which is perfectly suitable to play our episodes. Next you will need the appropriate codecs, the primary video codecs being XViD or DivX as well as several others to provide extra features such as optional subtitles, these extra codecs should however be included when you download the episode (provided its in a .rar file not just the plain .avi or .ogm). Once these codecs have been installed you simply need to double click the file and it will boot up in your media player, if you do not have WMP you can find a selection of media players at http://www.doom9.org in their download section.

Answer: OGM is simply a way of combining a video source with multiple audio sources into one file (rather than being restricted to a single audio source). Unlike many people think OGM isn't actually a video format it simply uses an existing source such as a DivX or XViD file and then with the newly added audio (and possibly internal subtitles) is combined into one single file with the extension .ogm. To play an OGM you will need either DivX or XViD (depending on what format the video is) as well as a codec to play .ogg audio (Direct Show implementation of Ogg Vorbis) and a codec to play internal/external subtitles (Direct Show Subtitle Filter).