tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 5 months agoHate when it happenslemmy.kde.socialimagemessage-square100fedilinkarrow-up1642arrow-down114
arrow-up1628arrow-down1imageHate when it happenslemmy.kde.socialtubbadu@lemmy.kde.social to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square100fedilink
minus-squarewahming@monyet.cclinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·5 months agoVideo files can be played with as little as 5% downloaded, so long as the header and footer are complete
minus-squareDraconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoCan those be reconstructed if necessary?
minus-squarewahming@monyet.cclinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoThe header and footer? Possibly, if you knew the technical metadata of the file. Codec, bitrate, all that jazz
minus-squarexor@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·5 months agovery loose definition of “played”
minus-squarewahming@monyet.cclinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoIt works well with shows you want to start watching immediately. Enable sequential download, 2 minues to grab the header/footer, and you can start watching. It’ll download faster than you watch.
minus-squarexor@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months agowell i know that… it’s basically streaming from the torrent…
Video files can be played with as little as 5% downloaded, so long as the header and footer are complete
Can those be reconstructed if necessary?
deleted by creator
The header and footer? Possibly, if you knew the technical metadata of the file. Codec, bitrate, all that jazz
very loose definition of “played”
It works well with shows you want to start watching immediately. Enable sequential download, 2 minues to grab the header/footer, and you can start watching. It’ll download faster than you watch.
well i know that… it’s basically streaming from the torrent…