Please help: meanings of technical terms.

[alphanis]

There are many technical terms in uTorrent.

Some of them are proper noun, so I can just transliterate them instead of translating.

But the problem is when I encounter technical terms as common noun and can't find any information from dictionaries or google.

I think, for this question, this forum is most appropriate place among whole internet.

(I will add my question as reply of this post)

[alphanis]

I don't know how to translate these terms.

eye piece

cursor piece

secs ahead of ghost

secs ahead of eye

seconds of underrun

deadline piece

hole piece

ghost piece

prio window start

prio window end

total pieces

critical requests

critical cancellations

I guess these are all about proxy server because uTS IDs of these are:

SPEED_PROXY_LEGEND_xx

Would anyone explain these for me please?

[rkononenko]

I also want to know what those terms mean. Like for instance the eyepiece is something from optics and i have no idea what it means for torrents

[gregul]

These are all part of streaming parameters. You can find them in speed graph after chosing "stream" to show. I also don't know what they exactly mean, but you can treat 'eye', 'cursor', 'ghost' as proper nouns.

[rkononenko]

Are you sure they are proper nouns, and we should not translate them literally?

[gregul]

I'm not, but you can treat them this way as for now. What else you can do instead treating them as proper nouns? No one will understand it anyway as they are - I guess - connected to the new method of streaming that is being developed by utorrent team. You can correct it later as you figure out better names for it. Maybe someone will post here some advices if he knows the streaming issue.

It took a long time for me to find where they are shown (Speed graph - Stream). This is nothing major.

[Firon]

Those were terms added by the engineers who worked on streaming. They're really more for debugging than anything. I wouldn't worry too much about getting them right.