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
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
Torrents are usually not downloaded in order but (for all intents and purposes) randomly. That means that, even though 10% might already be downloaded, it might just be the final 10% of the movie (or more realistically, random snippets scattered throughout the file).
There used to be some torrent clients that were able to do what you ask, request pieces in order only, but I don’t know if they are still around and they could potentially affect your download speed.
qBittorrent can do this for example
It does affect download speed, but if you’ve already downloaded some of it and your download speed is faster than the video playback, it works quite well.