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I dont think bittorrent is particularly suited for small file caching and thats how a lot of video is served these days (think about how adaptive rate streaming

by sprky 10y ago

I dont think bittorrent is particularly suited for small file caching and thats how a lot of video is served these days (think about how adaptive rate streaming works, a video is split into thousands of small files containing a few seconds of video at certain bitrates).

johnhenry 10y ago
I believe that bittorrent works by splitting a single file into thousands of small files, so this may, in fact, be ideal?
- thatcat 10y ago
  Ops point, I think, was that you couldn't switch rates mid-stream.
- rakoo 10y ago
  bittorrent doesn't split into files, it splits into pieces and chunks that are invisible to the user, so that's not something you can use as a user.
rakoo 10y ago
The number of files is not an issue, the only potential issue is the total size of the content (not what you'd think: the bigger a torrent, the better). It is perfectly doable to create a single torrent for the full video with all known bitrates, and have the client progressively load data as needed, switching from bitrate to bitrate on-the-fly