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Can I tell it to always "Download in sequential order" and "Download first and last pieces first"? I can set it in qBittorrent, but theres no option to remember
by MaxikCZ 5y ago
Can I tell it to always "Download in sequential order" and "Download first and last pieces first"? I can set it in qBittorrent, but theres no option to remember for next torrents, forcing me to select those manually everytime. The issue has been brought up but was rejected with reasoning "If everyone would do that, the health of torrents, especially fresh ones, would degrade drastically", completely ignoring that some people usually download torrents where seed/peer ratio is above 100, and it doesnt affect the health of the torrent in the slightest.
- stavros 5y agoThe solution here seems obvious, switch to random downloading if the seed/peer ratio is under some number. It frustrates me how indifferent some authors are to the user, though I guess I can't complain too much for a free product. I usually just fork them.
- krageon 5y agoIn the scenario you describe, the response of the author still applies. It may frustrate you, but that doesn't change the reality.
- phh 5y agoSome systems are more appropriate than just those options, but it requires player cooperation. For instance on Android, NOVA Video Player supports torrent streaming. Or btplay from https://github.com/johang/btfs https://github.com/johang/btfs . The way they work is better for the network, because it asks only for the N next MB from current position to be available ASAP, but the rest can be downloaded randomly to help the network like a standard client would do.
- MaxikCZ 5y agoThis is excellent implementation. Just today, when I was waiting to download 500 MB zip to extract 16 MB exe I needed I was thinking why all files aren't streamed everywhere.
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