let's say I'm torrenting a movie, and the torrent is downloading faster than the movie would play, is there any software that can handle a constantly changing file? thanks
edit: basically as long as you tell your torrent client to download sequentially, VLC (and probably most other video players) can just play the file like normal. though as one user pointed out, this may affect dl speeds.
TorrServer is a program that allows users to view torrents online without the need for preliminary file downloading. The core functionality of TorrServer includes caching torrents and subsequent data transfer via the HTTP protocol.
You're going to to still have problems, owing to the fact that torrent protocol doesn't download files sequentially (edit: some clients do have this option but it can slow your downloads dramatically). It doesn't download the first 5 seconds, then the 5 seconds after that, but rather 5 second bits at random parts of the movie.
Yeah, I remember ages ago I set up a torrent to loop play either in VLC or Real player. It “worked” kinda, in that it would play what it had of the file. It didn’t work, because as you said, it was grabbing a second at a time from random bits of the movie. Sometimes created funny sequences though.
I just use Deluge and open the file with VLC and it works so long as the download stream keeps up with the actual video time (IE it doesn’t slow down to where the video reaches the end of what it has finished downloading).
As others mentioned, Stremio + Torrentio is amazing. Just make sure you use, preferably, RealDebrid with it. If you can't use RD, you can use a VPN, but it will cost you some playback speed.
PopcornTime as others have mentioned is amazing, but sadly I haven't heard much about it lately. Honestly, Stremio + Torrentio is way better though in my opinion. It's easy to set up and has a ton of shows.
Deluge is another client that supports sequential downloads. It’s my personal favourite because it’s also built on a client-server model, so I can have thr client on all my devices connecting to a single server.
Nobody mentioned Popcorn Time? It is a bit torrent client with an integrated media player. It does exactly what you are asking + it has a great “poster wall” interface.
I was gonna mention this. Popcorntime certainly brought back many memories. I didn’t even realize I was torrenting it, thought it was just a slow alternative to Crackle.
I don’t know but it still works. Used it just the other day to find a version I couldn’t get via normal means. I’m guessing some sort of magnet search?
100% doable and easy. In clients like qBittorrent you can right click on a torrent and select both “Download Sequentially” and “Download first and last pieces”. Once it downloads the first and last pieces, you can wait for a bit until maybe the first 5% has downloaded, and you can open the file with a decent video player like VLC, and as long as the download is faster than the play speed, it’ll play just fine.
huh I didn't know VOC could just handle it like that. but thinking about it now that makes sense. its not like its loading the whole file into memory, its just reading from the disk
Qbittorrent let’s you set a torrent to download in sequential order and download first and last pieces first. This let’s me play files as they are downloading.
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