CobraSA Posted March 27, 2012 Report Posted March 27, 2012 Hello,Nowadays torrents have more and more files, which results in bigger and bigger .torrent file du to the storage of all filenames and hashes in the file. I have tried making a torrent with about 20000 files and that resulted in a big assed .torrent file obviously. Problem, 99% of sites where you upload torrent files don't accept a file size bigger than 1Meg. This is most likely due to the default setting of the server php.ini than nobody knows how to use. Using a simple zip compressing routing on the fly while generating the torrent file would make it 10 times smaller. So could you please consider making a new .torrent file format zipped on the fly, that the client could still read?
Firon Posted March 27, 2012 Report Posted March 27, 2012 We have no plans to do this. Just bitch at the site and tell them to raise the upload limit.
CobraSA Posted March 28, 2012 Author Report Posted March 28, 2012 Going to ask Azureus/Vuze devs. That's the client I usually use anyway.
IFar Posted March 28, 2012 Report Posted March 28, 2012 I LOL'd..You may as well go ask every tracker dev to upgrade their software to accept these new fangled zipped/compressed torrents as well.. While you are at it, create a BEP and submit it so it can be a standard.IFar
CobraSA Posted March 28, 2012 Author Report Posted March 28, 2012 There would be no need to ask anything to the trackers if the client supported that format. The files would still have the .torrent extension and would be decompressed in the client. It is requesting support for files bigger than 1Meg that would require asking every tracker. Honestly that's something trivial that I could code with my feet. I am not asking something impossible and it's something that would benefit everyone. The only downside is that at first not all clients would support that format, but I am sure that if a couple of the most popular clients used that format, then it would be used in trackers and all the other clients would add support for it.
kotekzot Posted April 8, 2012 Report Posted April 8, 2012 Most trackers would reject the malformed .torrent you would create. I guess you really do code with your feet.
CobraSA Posted April 8, 2012 Author Report Posted April 8, 2012 and why would they reject it mister smartass? I have already successfully tested uploading a text file with a .torrent extension. there isn't any real format filter, it's just based on the file extension.
DreadWingKnight Posted April 8, 2012 Report Posted April 8, 2012 We have no plans to do this. Just bitch at the site and tell them to raise the upload limit.In other words, idea rejected.
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