Video streaming

[godlike]

I searched the forums but did not find a thread relevant to this topic.

Are there any plans to support video streaming under Deluge? Given that it is becoming an increasingly more popular technology, and that some clients (namely, µTorrent) have support for it, is it actually possible for Deluge to support this?

I'm guessing that it's not so easy given the client/server nature of Deluge (something that makes it excellent BTW, I use it just because of that, the ability to run headless on a headless server and control it from the client UI), but nevertheless I ask (a fool's hope maybe ).

Cheers,
GODLiKE.-

[srroom]

I searched the forums but did not find a thread relevant to this topic.

Are there any plans to support video streaming under Deluge? Given that it is becoming an increasingly more popular technology, and that some clients (namely, µTorrent) have support for it, is it actually possible for Deluge to support this?

I'm guessing that it's not so easy given the client/server nature of Deluge (something that makes it excellent BTW, I use it just because of that, the ability to run headless on a headless server and control it from the client UI), but nevertheless I ask (a fool's hope maybe ).

Cheers,
GODLiKE.-

I am also looking for information about video streaming under Deluge and the forum search came up with this post. Is there anyone who can share some info on this matter? Thanks!

[Cas]

What type of video streaming are you talking about? If you mean watching a torrent while its still downloading, there is an option in the Pieces plugin can download a torrent in sequence which afaik is the same as utorrent uses.

[slacka]

there is an option in the Pieces plugin can download a torrent in sequence which afaik is the same as utorrent uses.

Yes, that works but Using that option is unsocial and not good for the torrent protocol.
http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Sequential_downloading_is_bad
A better option would be to create a plugin that used the piece_deadline feature to create a streaming buffer. This is discussed here:
http://code.google.com/p/libtorrent/iss ... 6&sort=-id

The main benefit of using piece deadlines is that the fast peers will be used first, to download those pieces. the sequential download feature will make any peer request happen in sequential order, including the very slow peers. the order in which pieces are requested is not necessarily the order they complete.

The other benefit of piece deadline is that any spare bandwidth, not required to request the deadline pieces, will be used for normal rarest-first downloading.