ways to watch a torrent while it's downloading?
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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.
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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
It can probably be done with any video player, but it may be necessary to duplicate it and change the file extension.
Maybe create a link to the downloading file?