Webtorrent desktop or qbittorrent with sequential order download + VLC
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thank you!
Sequential order just means downloads files in sequential orders, you can't for instance watch a 2 hour Linux ISO documentary until the file is downloaded.
There is a plugin for VLC which does allow this though, but I don't remember the name of it. No need for external torrent software, just plop a magnet link in VLC, or a torrent file, and it'll start streaming the legal Linux ISO documentary.
Stremio is what finally got me to cut the cord.
https://github.com/johang/btfs btfs lets you straight up mount a torrent as a directory and stream it. Most torrent clients also have an option to download parts in order so you can stream.
that's wicked! thank you!
qBittorrent, and turn sequential download on.
Deluge has sequential download.
Check 3/4 of them and you can use whatever player you want.
ohh yes deluge! of c! my first ever open source torrent downloader. This is where I remember it sequential download from
I love Deluge, but rn I have qb and it has great functionality as well, so imma stick with it. Thank you tho
Ktorrent can do it. It's got a built in media player, and if you watch a file in it, it will try to download it sequentially.
Stremio? Not sure if it's foss/open, though. Most likely not.
According to their website it's open source
Cool, thank you! I had never bothered to check, to be honest.
always use foss if you have a choice :'0
I have a pragmatic approach. I prefer to always use the app/program that works best for me and choose FOSS everything else being equal.
everything else being equal is almost never the case. I like the fact that FOSS code is openly available, gives me a sense of peace of mind like none other. But yeah, I get your point
I use stremio. I have a Real-Debrid account, I log into that in Stremio for cached torrents.
In settings untick append .part to incomplete files Then find enable sequential download and tick it.
I think this is a global setting rather than per torrent
In settings untick append .part to incomplete files Then find enable sequential download and tick it.
I think this is a global setting rather than per torrent
I unticked it just now, I wasn't able to find sequential download :(
Looks like it was added march this year https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/4795
yeah, that's it. I am using transmission 3.00-1 so I can't use this until debian stable team decides to add it in.
I can use flatpaks but I won't bother rn
thank you mate!
thanks for the links. those came in handy. I probably will go for elementum
wait elementum is an addon han? I am not sure if I like kodi, let's see this would be a choice as well.
Sequential downloads are bad for torrents.
Popcorn time
hey, do you use popcorn.pro
https://popcorntime.pro/movie/the-nun-2
seems like there are a lot of ads and bugs, I am pretty sure you have a better setup, care to share?
I've been using Peerlix for years. While there might be better alternatives nowadays, have not had any need for them.
just select only one episode if its a series. after the episode downloads, watch it to see if the quality is good or not. if it's good, you can select the rest of the files to download. you can do this in transmission, qbittorrent or deluge.
that's the way I do business rn and it's not enough. I don't have much data to do that too