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I wonder if this prioritizes chunks in order? Or does one have to wait for an entire mp4 to be downloaded before knowing it will play all the way through?
is this compatible with BitTorrent Sync? because that what BT Sync does exactly...
There are actually a couple of implementations of this. I think that I most recently saw it in Pulsar[0]. I'm kind of glad these have never gotten too popular because to maintain a healthy swarm using the BitTorrent protocol, peers should not be prioritizing chunks sequentially. [0]: https://github.com/steeve/pulsar
Re: swarm health, Pulsar's predecessor project's README says this:
"Doesn't sequential download on bittorrent is bad?
Generally, yes. However, XBMCtorrent respects the same requirements "defined" by uTorrent 3. Also, XBMCtorrent tries to make it up to the swarm by seeding while you watch the movie."
There are actually a couple of implementations of this. I think that I most recently saw it in Pulsar[0]. I'm kind of glad these have never gotten too popular because to maintain a healthy swarm using the BitTorrent protocol, peers should not be prioritizing chunks sequentially. [0]: https://github.com/steeve/pulsar
Pulsar is a bit different. It doesn't present as a filesystem. IIRC it presents an HTTP stream to XBMC. Re: swarm health, Pulsar's predecessor project's README says this: "Doesn't sequential download on bittorrent is bad? Generally, yes. However, XBMCtorrent respects the same requirements "defined" by uTorrent 3. Also, XBMCtorrent tries to make it up to the swarm by seeding while you watch the movie."
[0]: https://github.com/steeve/pulsar/blob/fb0ed2d4691c683af781cf...