• wahming@monyet.cc
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    1 year ago

    I'm supposed to use an extra program to download a torrent in sequential order?

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      1 year ago

      Depends why you want it. If you want it to reduce fragmentarion, then just enable fallocate. If you want it to download files in sequence, then XML RPC. If you want file to be downloaded in very inefficient way, then be patient.

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        1 year ago

        Or, I just right click and select sequential download so I can start watching a movie immediately. This logic of breaking everything down into the tiniest possible bits is how we ended up with ridiculousness like the lpad debacle.

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          1 year ago

          Well, torrent client should leech and seed very fast and very efficient, watching videos is not on this list. XMLRPC also makes it convenient and expandable.

          And sequential downloads are bad for swarm, please don't do this.

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            1 year ago

            Just because your use case is different from others does not invalidate all other use cases.

            Also, there's a reason no clients support sequential download as a default option. Having the very occasional download where I would like to start watching immediately upon starting the download is not going to break the swarm, or even affect it.