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[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 80 points 9 months ago (14 children)

Check the files included in the torrent. Sometimes the folders include a little readme or something that people set to not download.

[–] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes I've even had a video file stop at 99.9% and it still played just fine.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago

For video files I always set it to download first and last parts of files first. You can watch a video fairly well with like 50% downloaded if the file has the first and last section, which contain the data about how the video is stored. It'll have occasional glitches, but it mostly works. At 99% it's effectively all there and you may not even notice that last 1%, let alone 0.1%.

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