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[–] wahming@monyet.cc 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Video files can be played with as little as 5% downloaded, so long as the header and footer are complete

[–] xor@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

very loose definition of "played"

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] xor@infosec.pub 0 points 10 months ago

well i know that... it's basically streaming from the torrent...

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Can those be reconstructed if necessary?

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 1 points 10 months ago

The header and footer? Possibly, if you knew the technical metadata of the file. Codec, bitrate, all that jazz