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Hate when it happens (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 2 years ago by tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago

If it's a video, you can probably still watch it

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

It's usually just an nfo or srt file that one seeder has deleted

One time I added a subtitle file to the download folder, renamed to the same as the movie file, and the download percentage jumped to completed

[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 35 points 2 years ago

I wish people would adopt torrent V2 because that one missing 500 byte file can make the video unwatchable. With V2 each file has it's own sha256 hash and can be checked and shared individually. It would also improve torrent health.

[-] droolio@feddit.uk 10 points 2 years ago

The next best alternative would be BiglyBT's Swarm Merging feature (which works similarly, and amazingly well on v1 torrents considering it only stores a precise file size instead of a hash in Vuze/Bigly's own DHT). I've been able to 'complete' numerous separate torrents where availability was <1.

BiglyBT already supports v2 but dunno if Swarm Merging works with such torrents yet.

[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Interesting. Not sure if qBittorrent supports that, I really hate switching clients :D Swarm merging for V2 should be implicit because each file has a unique hash code. So you can't not merge.

Another thing torrent clients could do: Every torrent that is downloaded and "rechecked" automatically generates and "upgrades" a V1 torrent into a V1/V2 hybrid torrent for sharing. And when you add a normal magnet link you could get the hybrid v1/v2 torrent from others via DHT. So theoretically only one person needs to generate this upgraded torrent and it's not up to the uploader / tracker.