was wondering

by Deactivated5512 • 14 Jul 2007, 11:35 • Journals
i'f im downloading , let's say, a season of some random show ( this case , veronica mars ), the torrentfile is 7.5 gb big in total, the first episode is 380.

so i'm wondering, when i've downloaded 500 mb or so, can I watch the first episode or will it be smth like that you can only watch it if you have the full torrent.

tnx in advance ;)
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Sup3r 14 Jul 2007, 12:36
As far as I remember with my torrents you can watch it already, not sure though.


btw +1 for Veronica Mars!
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xRio 14 Jul 2007, 12:37
depends... a torrent is split into parts and it starts downloading the first part it can get. sometimes you have little pieces of an episode.
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LethalChicken 14 Jul 2007, 12:39
if you use uTorrent, click on the "files" button and see, if the episode you wanna watch is fully downloaded
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SlimShady 14 Jul 2007, 12:40
probably not.. since u download the avi parts of the 7,58GB
example: u dl 1 minute of episode 1 and 1minute of episode 13
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Xpaz 14 Jul 2007, 12:45
prolly not, for reasons see m1kes post
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d227_speedy 14 Jul 2007, 12:49
you can download season by episodes
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cuttyP 14 Jul 2007, 12:50
what you can do is to give the first episodes high priority so they will load faster than the later episodes
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slowmotion 14 Jul 2007, 13:24
or just download them one by one?
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Paintrain 14 Jul 2007, 12:52
If you use a program like azareus, you can watch the details of all files. Once a files is downloaded 100% you can watch it. But most of the time downloading the parts will be divided over mall files. So you need about 70-80% of the total pack before the first file will be downloaded for 100%.
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biqq 14 Jul 2007, 13:00
you only leech a small part from the other torrent users (5 mb from user X, 5mb from user Y and 5mb or more from user Z) which are randomly picked from your torrent which means you can't watch them until they're fully finnished.
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moutoul 14 Jul 2007, 13:03
you can, as long as you set high priority for the episode you want to watch in your torrent detail and you at least dled 100% of this episode.
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Anox 14 Jul 2007, 13:35
it downloads small parts of episodes at the same time
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Viax 14 Jul 2007, 14:45
or just download 1 episode at the time using that torrent
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