[kde] Re: How KTorrent commanded to download a file sequentially
giovanni_re posted on Sun, 22 May 2011 01:11:28 -0700 as excerpted: A) How can KTorrent be commanded to download a file sequentially (without gaps), rather than pieces distributed randomly throughout the file? B) How can KT be told: 1) at first, only download on torrent1 until it is completely dl'd. 2) then, switch to dl'ing 5 torrents simultaneously Using KT 3.3.4 on kde 4.4.5 in KUbuntu 10.04. Maybe these things are fixed in KT 4? - which I'll have hopefully shortly when I upgrade to KU 11.04. = also, when I do Help KTorrent handbook, it gives the popup error message: The file or folder help:/ktorrent/index.html does not exist. Is there none, or is this maybe a KUbuntu packaging problem? Caveat: I have ktorrent 4.1.1 (on kde 4.6.3) installed here, on Gentoo, but I torrent rarely enough that I don't know the application particularly well. (FWIW, I'm a reasonably heavy newsgroup/usenet user and probably never got into torrenting as the newsgroups kept me busy. But I've used torrents for distribution ISOs and the occasional specific archive I've read about somewhere, like the 17-gig archive of myspace private photos someone grabbed and torrented at one point, at times.) There's a handbook that says 4.0 included, but it's not much of one. It's basically a single intro page with one-line descriptions of some of the features, plus links to the homepage, (online) handbook, forum, wiki, and the general kde forums. According to the homepage, 4.0 was the feature release after 3.3.4, and 4.1 after that. 4.0 included magnet and uTP protocol (torrenting over UDP instead of TCP) support. 4.1 included superseeding support and a kio- magnet kioslave. There's also a UI redesign to make better use of kparts, and **VIDEO-STREAMING**, watch a movie as it's downloading. That video-streaming bit should pertains to your sequential download question, as watching the movie in random order probably wouldn't be all that satisfying an experience. =:^P For the second question, download one torrent first, then switch to five- at-once, I suspect you'd have to use the scripting interface to change the setup to fie-at-a-time once the script gets the download-finished event on the first torrent. However, as I said, I'm definitely not an expert, and it may actually be possible using torrent priority too, if it's possible to set the first one at higher priority then the five others at the same priority lower than the first. FWIW, the links... homepage: http://ktorrent.org/ handbook/wiki: http://ktorrent.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ktorrent forum: http://ktorrent.org/forum/ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: How KTorrent commanded to download a file sequentially
On Sunday, May 22, 2011 06:46:50 AM giovanni_re did opine: A) How can KTorrent be commanded to download a file sequentially (without gaps), rather than pieces distributed randomly throughout the file? That is how he torrent protocol works. You are asking for an ftp style pull. Torrents are generally pre-allocated on disk which reduces file fragmentation. One thing I always do is when the gui says 100%, I stop it from the menu stop, verify that there are no processes left, and restart it, which causes the engine to recheck the download and fix any errors. B) How can KT be told: 1) at first, only download on torrent1 until it is completely dl'd. 2) then, switch to dl'ing 5 torrents simultaneously That I can't answer. I do know there is some scripting ability, but its defaults have always Just Worked(TM) for me. Some of its earlier gui's were a disaster, but the torrent engine worked fine. [...] -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html How can you think and hit at the same time? -- Yogi Berra ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: How KTorrent commanded to download a file sequentially
In 201105220658.33822.ghesk...@wdtv.com, gene heskett wrote: On Sunday, May 22, 2011 06:46:50 AM giovanni_re did opine: A) How can KTorrent be commanded to download a file sequentially (without gaps), rather than pieces distributed randomly throughout the file? That is how he torrent protocol works. You are asking for an ftp style pull. Torrents are generally pre-allocated on disk which reduces file fragmentation. One thing I always do is when the gui says 100%, I stop it from the menu stop, verify that there are no processes left, and restart it, which causes the engine to recheck the download and fix any errors. KTorrent for KDE 3 (can't remember the version) had a per-torrent operation to prefer early chunks when your client gets a choice. This doesn't guarantee you get things completely in order, but it can (for example) get you enough headers for certain file types to get the metadata / preview / etc. earlier. Yes, the torrent protocol doesn't really allow for in-order downloads exactly, but your client can request certain chunks first. B) How can KT be told: 1) at first, only download on torrent1 until it is completely dl'd. 2) then, switch to dl'ing 5 torrents simultaneously That I can't answer. I do know there is some scripting ability, but its defaults have always Just Worked(TM) for me. Some of its earlier gui's were a disaster, but the torrent engine worked fine. I don't know a way to catch the notification that a torrent has been completed, but all the torrents and be stopped, started, and their status queried using the DBus interface in the most recent KTorrent versions. So, you might be able to write a script to do what you want by regularly polling KTorrent. The scheduler plug-in does time-based bandwidth restrictions (including stopping / starting all torrents), but it can't handle this particular use case. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
