Rizm.net refresher

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Rizm.net is a host for many excellent japanese VF clips, some of which feature
famous players. The problem is that the site is a free service devoted to
streaming movies, and as such it's constantly hammered. This can cause your
downloads to abruptly drop dead, and what's frustrating is that saving the movie
using conventional methods forces you to start from scratch every time the
download dies. Here's how to work around that.



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1. Go to the rizm.net link you want to download from. The url will look something like:
http://www.rizm.net/usrplay/?USRID=3984&MFID=9886
..once you're there, edit the address by inserting 'makeasx01.asp' before the question mark, so that the link turns into:
http://www.rizm.net/usrplay/makeasx01.asp?USRID=3984&MFID=9886
The page will refresh and pop up a movie player, you'll want to click stop and/or close the movie player.

2. Make a mental note of the USRID and the MFID (they're both 4 digit numbers in the url)

Go to your favorite download manager and enter this link (but don't actually start downloading it yet):
http://www.rizm.net/UserData/XXXX/XXXX_YYYY.asx
XXXX is the USRID number. YYYY is the MFID number.
make sure the referrer is listed as http://www.rizm.net/usrplay/

3. Your download manager will grab the .asx file, which is tiny. It will ONLY successfully grab the file if you followed through on step 1 and are sitting on the makeasx01.asp page.

Rename the .asx to .txt and open it with your favorite text editor. Inside will be a true link to the movie, that link should start with mms://

4. Put the mms:// url into streambox, and (this is important) ... go to the
connections tab before starting your download. Check the box that says "always use
http:// protocol for downloading mms:// streams" ... you might also need to set
your connection speed to something slow like 256K dsl.

5. If the download starts up and then hangs, you can right click and choose "start"
to resume the broken download.

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Technical Explanation
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A typical rizm URL:

http://www.rizm.net/usrplay/?USRID=3984&MFID=9712

If you click the download button, a lot of stuff happens rapidly in the
background before the actual file is made available for download.

First, clicking the button directs you to

http://www.rizm.net/usrplay/makeasx01?USRID=3984&MFID=9712

Which is just a page with a script that tells it to offer you
the OPEN/SAVE dialogue box for whichever file is represented by
USRID=3984&MFID=9712. USRID = userid, each user is given a four digit ID
and a subdirectory named for that 4 digit ID number. This subfolder resides
in "http://www.rizm.net/UserData/" (for example...
http://www.rizm.net/UserData/3984/

There are two ways to attempt to get to the file sitting in Mr. 3984's
directory.

http://www.rizm.net/UserData/3984/filename.wmv ...This works if you have a
download manager that can handle japanese filenames. But if you don't,
you're screwed. So the alternate method is:

http://www.rizm.net/UserData/3984/3984_9712.asx

The asx is simply made up of the user's ID number and the file ID number.
The asx itself is not a movie, it's a tiny file that hides a link to the movie.
To get to that link, just rename the .asx to .txt and open it with notepad (or
whatever else you use). Inside you will see an MMS stream, which should look
like this: <a href="mms://211.14.146.152/SS/3984/weirdcharacters.WMV" target="_blank">mms://211.14.146.152/SS/3984/weirdcharacters.WMV</a>

Most programs refuse to take MMS:// links because mms:// signifies a movie link,
something which is meant to opened in media player (and usually something which
is not supposed to be saved to hard disk). Streambox is designed to work
around that, and will take the MMS link. However some sites have screwy
requirements for movie downloads. AM.SEGA for example wants you to lower your
download rate (mine's at the 256K dsl settings). For rizm.net (and also for
am.sega) you want to check the box that says "use http:// protocol for downloading
mms:// streams". This tells the program to grab the movie on the usual port for
downloading mms streams (80?) but use normal http:// commands to instruct
rizm.net to send you the file.

Hope this was useful for someone, or at least helped someone sleep /versus/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

Just a quick update to say that rizm has gone one step further in an attempt to keep people from using download managers/stream savers.

I've updated the download directions to take the change into account.
See my original post.

 

The easiest way to get your download managers to handle japanese names is to change your Unicode scheme to japanese. This will allow you to use streambox with rizm.net downloads without having to decode the actual link. You can just use the userdata number and the file name.

To do this, open up control panel, then go to regional and language options. Then click on the advanced tab. In the pull down menu on the top, select Japanese as the setting. Windows may ask you for the windows cd to install the needed files. After this is done, you should be able to see japanese characters in all your programs. Including all download managers. /versus/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

Update: Creed brought this to my attention:

Apparently, those step will only work with window XP/2000. I believe you also have to have the MS asian font packs installed also. I believe these are the steps to do so.

For windows 2000/ME

select "Start - Settings - Control Panel"
double-click the "Add/Remove Programs" icon
select the "Windows Setup" tab
look for the "Multilanguage Support" option

For Windows XP

select "Start - Control Panel"
click the "Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options" link and then the "Add Other Languages" link **OR** if in the Classic view, double-click the "Regional and Language Options" icon
in the next dialog, select the "Install Files for East Asian Languages" option and click OK

Also, users of other MS OS's such as windows 98 can try installing this program by MS
Global IME 5.02
Note that this will enable support for asian languages ONLY for programs that supports the option in windows prior to XP/2000. This means that your download manager program must have multi language support. Further information is provided by MS here
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/recommended/ime/default.asp

Hopefully this is of some help to some of you. /versus/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

To windows 98 people: give up now and save yourself grief /versus/images/graemlins/smile.gif
The other suggestions are probably good. But windows 98 has no built in support (even on the CD) for asian languages, and you need to use a 'recommended' 3rd part application to view and write japanese text. This application cannot make stuff like streambox or flashget accept japanese url's (it disables itself when the focus is on an application that doesn't have builtin multilanguage support).

Bummer, but thanks for trying srider. Maybe it's time to crack and get XP

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