I would like an option to prefer sequential downloading of a torrent. Most of the files I download are well-seeded and there's no need for it to download pieces willy-nilly. It makes much easier to use something while it's downloading if I know that I will usually have all the pieces in the order they are read ... it makes so I can estimate that the file will be done in x time and therefore I can start using it at x time, because the file will be read in order, and it will be finished before the thing reading it comes to the end.

Have a look at "Download order" plugin.

MoDaX wrote:Have a look at "Download order" plugin.

That determines the file download order, not the piece download order.

Is it correct to assume that this is what is meant by the "video streaming" feature added in 4.1? If not, how is the "video streaming" implemented?

You start the video in the media player plugin while it is still downloading.

OK, so this doesn't have anything to do with *actually* making it so videos download more sanely, and that you can watch while it downloads? Because when you say "streaming" that what I think of. You've just hooked up a media player plugin, that's the main difference here?

cookiecaper wrote:OK, so this doesn't have anything to do with *actually* making it so videos download more sanely, and that you can watch while it downloads? Because when you say "streaming" that what I think of. You've just hooked up a media player plugin, that's the main difference here?

You start the video in the media player plugin while it is still downloading, ktorrent then downloads video (more or less) sequentially and pauses the media player plugin, when it reaches a part of the video which is not yet downloaded.

If you can download fast enough, you can watch the video without interruptions.

Can someone clarify the StreamingChunkSelector class in libktorrent? At a glance it appears to facilitate this kind of sequential downloading. Is that exposed in KTorrent yet? How do we use it, if so? I didn't look very far into it so my understanding could be totally off.