I have sequential downloads enabled on my torrent client, I have a download speed that is fast enough that the ETA for the full download of the media is shorter than the duration of the media itself, and I can watch it in IINA or VLC, but, unfortunately Jellyfin doesn't recognise any new media in my designated library folders until a decent amount of time AFTER the entire file is downloaded and has it's correct extension.

Is there some way to watch as one downloads using Jellyfin?

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[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Do you require that your torrent client download using .part files? Seems like it would be easier to disable that setting in your torrent client so it sequentially downloads into the expected file name and extension. That should be enough for Jellyfin to see it is a .mkv or whatever with the proper name and scan it/play it.

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Never occurred to me it was optional. I'll have to check if there's a setting for it.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

It's def optional, and usually default off in most torrent clients.

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