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.
I found the gentoo iso really hard to watch, couldnβt really finish is
Debian was good though, 10/10 would watch again
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.
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
Sequential downloads are bad for 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
Hey this is exactly what I was looking for some days ago. Then an app was published on flathub called Muktiplex. It allows you to download and stream torrents directly through mpv. I watched Ahsoka only through this but I have to warn you: it is very new and it can crash sometimes but other than that it just fills this usage gap perfectly!
Edit: I have seen all the other comments and they either propose no solution at all ("just download the torrent") or they name some proprietary websites which also didn't really work for me. So I really think Multiplex comming as a nice looking gtk flatpak has a great potential.
hey, thank you!
Have you found it?
yeah, one I can vouch for is qbittorrent, it works. Just choose download the first and last pieces first and open destination folder, play like a normal file, except you won't be able to fast forward, I am pretty sure there are apps which can do this though, but for the time being this is enough for me. Also, look at the post again, I have summarized the comments, you probably will find it very helpful
Well you can do just that with Multiplex lol
I use stremio. I have a Real-Debrid account, I log into that in Stremio for cached 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.
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.
thank you mate!
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