[quote="latheofheaven"]
Hey, appreciate the fast reply mate, thanks!
Well, I think you are quite a bit above my level of understanding and I don't use Linux (although I DID try to once
) But, I will do what you suggested and select 'DL 1st and last pieces first' and then I guess select the 'DL sequentially' one next.
The only thing I don't understand is where you said that between these two actions I'm supposed to 'wait until the end piece is DL'd'...
How do I know when that has taken place?
Thanks again!
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You're welcome, to answer your question simply.
You would select the torrent you've set to download first and last piece for and look at the "progress bar"
You should see a complete blue chunk at the end of the torrent, when there STOPs been green pieces near it then it has finished taking the end of the torrent and you can set it to download sequentially.
If you enable this setting IMMEDIATELY upon starting the torrent the torrent progress will be around 1-2% when it finishes downloading the end piece.
As the setting tells the client to prioritise downloading 1% from the start and 1% from the end.
The reason for you needing this is because some file formats (mp4 by default does this) store the "metadata" required to stream the file at the END of the file instead of at the start.
So you can have 90% of the actual file but if you're missing the "metadata" your video player will not know HOW to play the file.
I'll edit in a better screenshot to show what i mean for the progress bar in a few min..
/e: It should look similar to the screenshot posted above, you only need the "end" part to look like that, the start will download anyway when you turn on sequential downloading.
/e2: REMEMBER TO SEED, DOWNLOADING TORRENTS LIKE THIS IS
BAD FOR THE SWARM HEALTH
HAVE A NICE DAY
