tubbadu to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 5 months agoHate when it happenslemmy.kde.socialimagemessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1605arrow-down114
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minus-square@wahming@monyet.cclinkfedilinkEnglish9•5 months agoVideo files can be played with as little as 5% downloaded, so long as the header and footer are complete
minus-square@wahming@monyet.cclinkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoIt works well with shows you want to start watching immediately. Enable sequential download, 2 minues to grab the header/footer, and you can start watching. It’ll download faster than you watch.
minus-square@xorlinkEnglish0•5 months agowell i know that… it’s basically streaming from the torrent…
minus-square@wahming@monyet.cclinkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoThe header and footer? Possibly, if you knew the technical metadata of the file. Codec, bitrate, all that jazz
Video files can be played with as little as 5% downloaded, so long as the header and footer are complete
very loose definition of “played”
It works well with shows you want to start watching immediately. Enable sequential download, 2 minues to grab the header/footer, and you can start watching. It’ll download faster than you watch.
well i know that… it’s basically streaming from the torrent…
Can those be reconstructed if necessary?
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The header and footer? Possibly, if you knew the technical metadata of the file. Codec, bitrate, all that jazz