ways to watch a torrent while it's downloading? (kbin.social)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by milkytoast@kbin.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

Back in the days I used MPlayer for that.most of the time you could just open the file in it and it was able to show you all the completed parts.