Qbit torrent sequential download

Not opposed, but we will have a lot of people asking why this option is not saved for the following torrents. I don't use download in sequential order because I have a high download speed but I understand people. In uTorrent there is a feature called Stream much better than ours Preview. When you click Stream , download in sequential order starts and you can see a countdown in the button with the remaining seconds to play.

When countdown is 0 the media player is launched. If you want to do this in qBittorrent you have to check download in sequential order and wait until you see the first blocks completed in the General tab , then you open container folder and go to the file and open it with the media player if you are not using!.

There are a lot of steps and it's hard to learn for normal user. In addition, in uTorrent if you click Stream in a torrent with multiple video files you will see a dialog we have something like that : but instead of download in sequential order the whole torrent this feature downloads in sequential order the file and start playing when you have first and last pieces of that file.

As download in sequential order only makes sense for video files I think users won't request this feature anymore because it is more comfortable pressing a button instead of doing all the steps that I mentioned earlier.

I've installed it for nothing. Seemed to me that every format needs a different percentage of downloaded file to be previewed, some need to be entirely downloaded. Seemed to me it depended also on the video player, because some handle errors well, others don't. But if it is doable it would really be a killer feature few competitors provide unless paying in the case of utorrent.

Please don't post more "me too" posts. It just adds noise to the thread. Seriously, slacka. That argument is dead. There are competitors out there, such as Popcorn times that offer this as their only feature, and it's going very well for them. They even have a built in player. Now imagine, if qbittorent were to offer this, including listing files inside torrents, then you can pick your episode and just click watch.

On Mon, Aug 10, at AM, slacka notifications github. I am all for making simpler for users to enable sequential download. I just don't want it to be a persistent option. As for streaming there is something in libtorrent already and there is some discussion on it at First I was unsure on how it would work for multifile torrents but seeing the utorrent way explained by ngosang it seems "easy". Btw, to all those saying that competing clients do this or that. Guess what? We aren't being paid and we're open source.

We go our own pace. PS: If anyone offered to pay for this trivial code addtition I am sure any of the currently active devs myself included could come up with a patch enabling persistence of this option in a matter of minutes. The issue is that it will never be accepted in the official codebase. Maybe the algorithm of the "Sequential" mode should be mixed and balanced. There would be a smart, experience-based number which represents the "rare availability".

Any pieces below this availability rate would be downloaded first, and any above would be downloaded in a sequential order. That way you make sure all interests are taken care of. I just adore all the people who are otherwise totally against DRM, unironically arguing in favor of what amounts to just that to preserve the "health of swarms. I want whatever settings I want however I want them. If this harms things then that's the protocol's problem and should be adjusted there, not by hamstringing clients and users.

Why even support an open source client if you're gonna behave like a wannabe closed source authoritarian? If an option to enable it by default were to be introduced would you remember, or even care, to turn it off on torrents that you don't need to use it? Yea even if you were, you would be the exception. The devs already said they're open to patches to make this option more accessible on a per torrent basis.

How is that "for your own good"? It's clearly to protect the collective FROM people like you! You did not refute my core assertion in any way, let alone a substantive one. Again, I ask in light of your position: Why even support an open source client if you're gonna behave like a wannabe closed source authoritarian?

As it stands now, the current implementation harms the health of the swarm. See issue If that issue is resolved, this feature would not longer be considered harmful and could be enabled by default. It would be really good to have an option to start torrents sequentially, especially in qbittorrent nox. Because for example I have a pi set up for torrenting at home, with samba server, and I could start the movie I am downloading, as soon as adding it to the pi from my notebook.

This is precisely why I came here today. I didn't know if I would find it already requested. It is getting old having to set each file to "download in sequential order" when they start. To be honest I would love if I had the option available to me, without having to wait for the torrent to start downloading.

I can see asking for help on this topic, is a waste of time. I probably won't find a software I like as well as qBittorrent, but I now have a need in looking elsewhere. It has been 12 days since I commented last. There has not been any comments since. And I could tell by the comments before mine that my comment would go nowhere. I'm leaving now and forgetting I came here. I'm going to try and forget qBittorent exist as well. Could someone just fork it?

Seems like it would be a small change, though I don't know how to begin doing it. As a follow up on my previous comment, qBittorrent has made changes to how downloads are handled. I'm having to manually set the download method much less frequently. I'm satisfied with the efforts they made since my last visit. Now I can turn off notifications for this topic, meant to do that last time I was here.

That's great that devs are aware of duplicate requests spam to make sequential order as default, but they should also be aware it's also spam to keep repeating saying 'it's bad for the health of the torrent! We get it. Just make it as an option under Advanced tab with warning that this setting is for advanced users only and that they understand what they are doing.

It's not for the dev to decide what torrent I'm downloading with what seed:leech ratio, is it bad or good. And 2. And nobody is complaining. Just put that setting somewhere deep in the bottom. Thus, if the torrent is not already downloading sequentially, you are most likely harming the swarm by forcing that.

It is not up to you to decide. However, until we have such a "streaming" option, enabling the automation of sequential downloading would be pretty bad for the health of the swarms.

In my opinion, the focus should be on the implementation of a "streaming" feature. Until then, the manual way of setting the sequential download should remain as is. Not clients. And certainly not end users of the clients. Why do I have to explain that? The client is supposed to be whatever users want it to be, limited only to whatever is permitted by the laws of nature.

I can't believe I have to even tangentially explain that in an OSS community. Especially on a thread relating to a torrent client, whose very foundation protocol others claim is bad for the health of society. The very existence of torrents is a rebuke to the very kind of control FranciscoPombal and others are promulgating. I'm already using an AHK macro to automate the setting so I don't care either way.

Available on request. I almost thought the people hating controlling tech guy was a cliche from bad fiction. If not, then I am glad they are tragedy of the commons coding themselves out of relevance at the speed of greed.

Apparently it's gonna take a fork for this app to ever stop reflecting that ideology. I know this won't happen but someone should post the exact code that needs to be changed that annihilates this purpose built annoyance. The whole reason this client got popular was because it's an escape from the arrogance and disregard of the utorrent team. I'm tired of people trying to control others for Orwellian cultural reasons.

As clearly that is what this has become. I expect it out of megacorps, and the government they own, but seeing it here, in an OSS community, relevant to the torrent protocol, is repugnant in a special layer cake of crap kind of way. I'm no anarchist, I Completely understand the point of regulations and controls, but this issues is tech specialists looking down on everyone else and exploiting their expert position accordingly.

I am just thankful for it's relative triviality though it does not at all bode well for the future direction of the client. Telling end users what options they shouldn't have because "health" is like telling a library what books it should ban. Frankly no one cares what you think is good for the "health of swarm" or the "good of society.

Go get the torrent protocol changed if it's such a big deal. Change society, not the library. The bittorrent protocol specifies that pieces should be downloaded in random order. Downloaders generally download pieces in random order, which does a reasonably good job of keeping them from having a strict subset or superset of the pieces of any of their peers. If I understand you correctly, you're suggesting violating the protocol in this regard.

I don't understand how you conclude that it must be a problem with the protocol. Generally the way open source software works is that programmers build software to solve their own problems, and share their code so other people can use it. If you have a problem and you're not a programmer, you can 1 convince one to help you, 2 learn how to program or 3 hire a contractor.

Learning how to program 2 is the best option, not just because there's a severe shortage of programmers in the world, but you'll also find that most open source contributors are more than happy to mentor, teach and review your code, as long as you put in the work to learn and actually contribute to the project.

With this model in mind, programmer's opinions is essentially the only thing that matter. I didn't quite follow your analogy with the books in a library. How would you suggest the bittorrent protocol be changed? I think the issue FranciscoPombal brings up is an inherent problem of imbalanced piece distribution, sometimes, causing severe inefficiencies in the network.

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Asked 8 years ago. Active 1 year, 2 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Sidharth V Sidharth V 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. You can read about it in this question However, this feature comes with a health warning : Attempts to download the selected torrents in sequential order.

A more detailed explanation of why this feature is bad is available here qBittorrent:. Improve this answer. Starfish 8 8 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Rik Rik Curious how this is the accepted answer when it refers to a different question. OP asked how to download component files in named order, not pieces of the torrent if it can even be imagined as a single blob. Anyway, the first link is defunct, so it doesn't support the answer's assertion any more - another example of why link-only sentiments are bad.

I wonder if the other 3 context-free links fare any better. On the forum link is indeed dead but here is another there is multiple times stated that "sequential file downloading" will NOT be implemented in uTorrent.

That alone answered the question and links go dead in time. I added some edits to solutions as to how it could be achieved via a plugin or other program. Please note that I'm talking about "sequential file downloading" as stated in the question. All the links are about that. I never give link-only answers. The only thing I could have done extra was copy and paste the entire post from that forum but with my additional information in the original answer it was not necessary.

Actually it is supported now, see the answer below this one by Denys Popoff. Scooby Scooby 4 4 silver badges 3 3 bronze badges. Here is a demonstration GIF:. I love more and more tixati — Francesco.

Dan D. Go to the "File" tab, then select "prioritize by file order". Scott Narkos Narkos 11 1 1 bronze badge. Your answer could probably get a little TLC. I'd love to help but I've not had IRC installed in ages. Maybe a screenshot of this process would help the question be much more awesome.