Don't worry, some hero without a cape will appear for you and seed that bitch! (wait, that sound better in my head).
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Once or twice I've gone and found another source for the download, copied it into my torrents folder, forced my torrent client to re-scan the file and started seeding it.
Watching a thousand other clients tick over from 99% to 'seeding' is weirdly gratifying.
Not all hero's wear capes. Also just so you know there's a script which does this automatically
That's nice, where?
There's some you can search like cross seeding script
Sounds fine to me.
Phew, thanks.
I recently had a torrent finish after a year and a half. It wasn't something I was really concerned about but it gave me a nice feeling to know it had finished.
What in tarnation? who did that to you, what monster....
what in the world compelled you to want it that way?
IDK. It was hung up at 70 something % and I never got around to deleting it. Then one day after having long forgotten about it the notification saying it was done popped up and I was like "holy shit!"
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What's even worse is when a torrent is stalled at around 94%, there's exactly one seeder with a full copy in the peer list, but he has fucked up networking rules (or an intentionally choked upload because he's a dirty leecher) so that despite having an open connection in the peer list, they never send any data...
This seems to happen alot. I always wondered if it is really a peer or some weird spoofed peer that just tries to give you hope before crushing your dreams.
Most likely it's someone who has a VPN that doesn't support P2P upload or has their config messed up.
Part of why I moved to usenet.
Everything always downloads at full speed (limited by disc write speed in my case), so if there's missing data you find out about it within a min or two instead of after 3 days of trying.
Usenet also includes parity data so you can rebuild missing data to an extent.
Till you're missing that one article.
Yup, point is I find out much much sooner and can move on to a new nzb. A single ~15gb nzb takes 5min max whether it succeeds or not. I'm never ever waiting on slow seeds.
Multiple providers can improve availability, but I've seen no need. Everything myself or my users have requested has been found and downloaded within 25min, including re-tries. Typically it's about 15min from user request to 'available to watch' email notification.
Worse case I can fallback to torrents, but I haven't had to yet with over 31tb out of usenet alone.
I'm on private trackers and we don't have problems either.
Private trackers can be a bitch to get into, and you have to re-seed what you download exposing yourself to copyright claimants and/or pay for a vpn on top.
I just raw dog a usenet server for 5min/movie and I'm done. Faster, easier, and risk free.
I use both. A lot of stuff just isn't on usenet.
For the few things I can't find; there's still torrents. Usenet is just my primary source, and it covers 99% of what gets requested through my systems.
Yarr you need some wind in yer sails matey
What does the 0.1% of the file contain anyway, if it's a video and most of the data is there it might be either playable or if not it probably might be able to be repairable so it can play, albeit with minor corruption in the damaged part.
Video files can be played with as little as 5% downloaded, so long as the header and footer are complete
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...
Can those be reconstructed if necessary?
The header and footer? Possibly, if you knew the technical metadata of the file. Codec, bitrate, all that jazz
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If it's a video, you can probably still watch it
What is it? If it’s a video it’s probably fine.
No it's not. You try wating for an hour with your dick in your hand edging while waiting to see some serious... ahem... debates over global warming.
Huh?
Porn. He’s talking about porn.
Yeah but that is video, if you have 99.9% of the file often times it plays just fine.
I call them "zombie torrents"
Easy. Next time just download the last percentage first.