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Re:Put.io by Anderkent on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @06:37AM (#7176793)
There's no need to do purely sequential download, though. You only need to download sequentially at the speed of playback, the rest of your bandwidth can go to the rarest chunks.
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Re:Put.io by scott_karana on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @12:07PM (#7178685)
You're right, but then you'd need to programmatically determine the video bitrate in the torrent client, or integrate it with the video player. Either way is a pretty heavyweight solution.
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