gomisweird Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 I downloaded a movie, but I only downloaded it for the first 10 mins of it. The torrent is 50% complete so that's obviously more than my desire; so instead of waiting for the WHOLE movie to finish, is there I way I can see the incompleted file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myrhymeandreason Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Just because it says it is 50% done, does not mean it is 50% through the movie. A torrent downloads in pieces until finished. But if you do have the first ten minutes, you can usually play an incomplete video file in Media Player Classic. I have done it several times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panicswitched Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 yea normally itll download random chunks as it can get them not nessicerly in order like limewire/kazza did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toology Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 I think there is a setting, depending on your torrent client, so that the client attempts to download the first and last chunks of the file first. That would be useful if you want to watch the first few minutes of a video file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myrhymeandreason Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 I think there is a setting, depending on your torrent client, so that the client attempts to download the first and last chunks of the file first. That would be useful if you want to watch the first few minutes of a video file. I just checked and ?Torrent does not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamend Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Try VLC or AVIPreview, unlike MPC, they will try to reconstruct partial AVIs (and AVIPreview can play locked/in progress files). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toology Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 I just checked and ?Torrent does not. I did some searching and apparently ?Torrent does it by default. Other p2p programs like eMule require that you enable that setting yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 I did some searching and apparently ?Torrent does it by default. Other p2p programs like eMule require that you enable that setting yourself. I can confirm this:DD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 Shareaza P2P program comes with it's own Movie Player, which allows you to preview partial downloads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakup Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 XBMC can play incomplete videos and video packed in rar, but the video will be choppy and skip the incomplete parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sagittarius Veteran Posted September 2, 2007 Veteran Share Posted September 2, 2007 I'd recommend VLC as well to preview an incomplete torrent movie, but, in my experience, I think you need to at least have the first few hundred kilobytes at the start of the video downloaded or else it might fail to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorned1 Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 Another vote for VLC player for playing it. Tried it before and it worked well. Although the last time I tried uTorrent, it downloaded the parts randomly so it would be a bit annoying if you wanted to download and watch it at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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