Question for hardcore geeks

Is there any bittorrent downloader that prioritizes segments from a file(s) from start to finish?

Reason why I ask is that if sometihng like this exists, you could use it to play a bittorrent movie *whilst* you download it.

well that's not strictly true, for a lot of formats you will also require some information present at the end of the file or the keyframes will start going all over the shop. i don't know the answer to your question though.

  On 7/31/2009 at 3:21 AM, kaini said:

well that's not strictly true, for a lot of formats you will also require some information present at the end of the file or the keyframes will start going all over the shop. i don't know the answer to your question though.

yeah that's a good point, i didn't think much about that.

still, there's gotta be some solution.

use KAZAA, lol. it should download from start to finish

edit: P2P

ya i used to use something like this... can't remember though

That's the nature of torrents, it is a non-linear way of downloading files so that everybody helps the other with the missing parts. You can't do it your way or else, say when a file gets out, everybody is trying to download it, so the person doing the upping can't just give the first part to everybody, it wouldn't work.

some clients like bitcomet actually tried to fuck with that, and quickly got banned from every torrent site.

Find an open source client and hack it yourself ;)

Pretty sure utorrent could do this if you tinkered with it.

I wonder it costs admin any money to keep this place open. All for this.