dipp Posted November 10, 2005 Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 Hi I was wondering If utorrent has a way to allocate files so if I am downloading a movie I can preview it (ie. If I download an .avi bittornado will download the start of the file first and download it in order). I am pretty sure this is not available on azureus, but it is possible by using bittornado (probably the only reason I keep bittornado around). This feature would be very useful and I feel would grealy help the growth of the program. BTW, I am a noob so if this feature already exits could someone please point it out. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 10, 2005 Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 You could have simply searched for "preview" and found your answers =\BitTornado doesn't download files in order, and µTorrent won't either. µTorrent already tries to download the beginning and ending pieces, so preview would *theoretically* work fine even if you download a part of a video file. I'm not sure if it actually works as such (I don't download video files). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dipp Posted November 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 Thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dipp Posted November 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 Also wanted to mention that I am know officially a utorrent user!!!!!!! Got rid of bittornado and azureus as utorrent was faster and used less resources (although the beta builds of azureus didn't use much resources either.) Know I just have one more question. Is upnp as efficient as opening the port up (ie will i get slower speeds with upnp) and is udp supported yet and if so at what port. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 10, 2005 Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 Concerning UDP... If you're referring to UDP trackers, check this thread...I'm not sure about how well UPNP works when compred with opening ports up manually, but one would assume that it works just the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dipp Posted November 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 While I have your attention, I just got an error that the file i am downloading was in use by another process. All I did was access the folder. Is there some way to prevent this or is this just hoe utorrents designed. Thanks yet again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 10, 2005 Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 Hm I don't usually open files while they are loaded by µTorrent, but my guess is that µTorrent is still writing to the file you're trying to open. I don't exactly know how it works (or why it happens), but responded since you were looking for my response =PMaybe someone more knowledgable can answer you on this question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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