DRY_GIN Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 is it possible to force mt to download first chunks of an avi file first so it will be possible to preview it faster... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saribro Posted July 9, 2007 Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 Options -> Preferences -> Advanced -> bt.prio_first_last_piece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRY_GIN Posted July 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2007 Thank You!!!!(Wow!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeeZy01 Posted July 13, 2007 Report Share Posted July 13, 2007 never knew about this feature. thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam2539 Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 I have looked with interest at this post and am asking how I preview an .avi file that I am downloading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tickopa Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 Setting bt.prio_first_last_piece to "True" and using a media player like VLC you can preview an .avi file. If "enough" of the pieces have downloaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 note that it is important to answer the notification/question of VLC that the avi seems corrupt and if VLC should repair the index should be answered with NO though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tickopa Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 Yeah. The VLC team said that they were going to build an option into the preferences to disable that notification. Don't know what happened to that.EDIT: There is an option >Preferences -> Input / Codecs -> Demuxers -> AVI -> Force index creationAskAlways FixNever Fix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saribro Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 Or, copy your incomplete .avi, and let VLC (or DivFix, or some tool) fix the index of the copy. You don't mess up your download, and still can preview more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invasi0n Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 If I set bt.prio_first_last_piece to "True" will affect the download speed? What are the side effects of using that feature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tickopa Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 It shouldn't affect your download speed. The only side affect is that uTorrent increases the priority of the first and last pieces of the torrent, this usually allows you to play the file under VLC.@Saribro: I can't really see the point in fixing/creating the index of an incomplete AVI file. Unless there are no seeders and you know you won't receive the rest of the file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saribro Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 We are talking about -pre-viewing an .avi, the amount of seeders or piece availibility is utterly irrelevant to the matter at hand..avis with broken indexes can cause problems in several media players, and tends to restrict previewing to the first continuous block of data, therefor, a rebuilding of the index of the incomplete file would allow you to preview a larger part of the .avi (provided more than the beginning is downloaded, obviously). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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