all xvid divx files can be streammed if you have fast bandwidth, and lots of swarm speed

You, sir, are nothing but a dumb ungrateful swine. If there were no scene, you’d get no releases at all. So STFU and take what you’re given by the people who do the real job. And don’t forget to say thanx to them next time.

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It’s been ages since I downloaded a fake via BT. Maybe I’m just lucky or maybe I know right places. ;-)

this feature was probably implemented so users could stream some of the video before they downloaded to see if it was a fake or not. thus, you won’t be disappointed when you wait for the dl to finish, and you see it is a fake[/quote]

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So far it’s easier to d/l a movie and watch it when you want it. It’ll cost you the same amount of traffic, storage is hardly a problem these days, and if you don’t like it you can always delete it.

For redundancy, every scene release is accompanied by an .sfv which the FTP daemon uses to verify each file uploaded. Similar to hash checks implemented in the torrent protocol.

As for the competition, there is an entire part of the scene called couriers whose job is to spread the releases to as many scene sites as possible, as fast as possible. They are rewarded on how much they send. If a release group just uploaded a single 4gig file, only one courier would be credit for it on each site, and if some packets are lost and the sfv fails, you’d need to wait for someone else to upload the entire 4 gig file.

The scene has been around far far longer than the torrent or even p2p community, as have the rules that govern the way things work. Rars and sfv checks will be around for many many years.

FTP can resume files where you left off in case of disconnect. RAR splits is more likely due to post size limits for Usenet Newsgroup.

You guys complaining about it not working with rar files, that’s more than likely correct, however as I stated above, it wont matter because most of those releases are from the scene, which usually isn’t ‘legal’ content.

Of course, this technology could possibly be implemented into ‘other’ stuff if you catch my drift.

Also, about streaming vs downloading, you have to realize that it’s not a question about which one is better. Streaming in this situation is a more casual approach to receiving certain content, it’s not meant to replace traditional downloads. Maybe you feel like checking out a certain movie without having to wait for it to finish downloading, then you can stream it. What if you want to keep it, possibly burn it to a DVD? Then you would download it.

@adam: While I /kind/ of agree with you, you shouldn’t bash the scene that harshly. After all they’re responsible for most of the content you download. I mean if you hate them so much, avoid them, but honestly it’d be pretty difficult unless you only download home-made rips and the like which is usually of much lesser quality (In fact, it would mean virtually no keygens or cracks). The reason that some releases are in multiple rar files (As far as I know) is because the scene uploads and shares their stuff through FTP. Through FTP, it’s a lot more convenient to upload multiple small sized archives instead of a complete multiple GB file. Just imagine this, you’re towards the end of the transfer and your connection goes out. If you were uploading various small archives, you would just continue where you left off, on the other hand, if you were uploading one big file, you would have to start your transfer over completely.

Now, an important thing to realize is that a good portion if not all of the scene dislikes the BitTorrent community, so it’s not like its their job or that they purposely release their stuff onto BitTorrent. As far as I know, it is certain people who ‘leak’ the releases onto BitTorrent, some could face punishments. Now, usually these releases are uploaded to BitTorrent already unpacked, however a few lazy ‘leakers’ might simply upload the rar files all in one go, which is why you see all those rar files sometimes.

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Says Leeching will not be productive.

The popular BitTorrent site Mininova is currently Beta testing BitTorrent powered video streaming. The new streaming feature allows users to watch videos instantly, streamed from .torrent files….

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Rarely do i watch the same video twice and dont mind paying for the convienience, however should have a save option cos anything along the lines paying for the same thing twice (bandwidth or rentals like streaming) is bullshit.

this feature was probably implemented so users could stream
some of the video before they downloaded to see if it was a fake or not. thus, you won’t be disappointed when you wait for the dl to finish, and you see it is a fake[/quote]
TV is downloaded from EZTV, never seen a fake there.

[quote comment="314916"]The very old scene still uses .RAR files for FTP spreading (hello – we have 2008, GB spaces exploded, stop that .rar shit). But I see new scene members in the sky who also don’t like this .rar shit. Its ok for software or other stuff that is compressable but not for a divx/xvid/avc! STOP THIS RAR SHIT NOW![/quote]
Rar is practical for FTP, but not for BitTorrent. It is not about the number of GB’s you have, it is about beiing able to download just a small file if anything goes wrong. Yes, BitTorrent-clients take care of that but the scene doesn’t use BitTorrent.

This feature will only work on the featured torrents on MiniNova which are 100% legit and legal.

Nobody is out to get you, so cut the paranoid crap

The SwarmPlayer is a stripped down and tuned version of the Tribler p2p client. In essence it is a download core that supports bittorrent downloads + our Give-to-Get extension that allows tit-for-tat like incentives for streaming media. On top of this core we use VLC.

No wories about multiple downloads if you want to keep the file. The SwarmPlayer has a “Save” button that allows you to save any media that you are streaming.

Personally I don’t really want to stream 350MB+ files, when downloading them is far more flexible/reliable..

Count me out, I wouldn’t wait weeks to stream a shitty AXXO rip.

They are wasting their time making this this service then lol we allready got vuze that sucks ass