I have sequential downloads enabled on my torrent client, I have a download speed that is fast enough that the ETA for the full download of the media is shorter than the duration of the media itself, and I can watch it in IINA or VLC, but, unfortunately Jellyfin doesn’t recognise any new media in my designated library folders until a decent amount of time AFTER the entire file is downloaded and has it’s correct extension.
Is there some way to watch as one downloads using Jellyfin?
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Do you require that your torrent client download using .part files? Seems like it would be easier to disable that setting in your torrent client so it sequentially downloads into the expected file name and extension. That should be enough for Jellyfin to see it is a .mkv or whatever with the proper name and scan it/play it.
Never occurred to me it was optional. I’ll have to check if there’s a setting for it.
Just leave it loaded in the torrent client.
e.g. if a sequential downloading torrent was downloading into “thisfile.mkv” it starts off at 0% - 99% progress. Eventually when it finishes it’ll still be the same “thisfile.mkv” just at 100% complete. Nothing in the torrent client changes, it’ll keep the torrent loaded and seeding unless you configure it to stop.
With OP’s post they are downloading without moving or renaming the file so nothing changes from a torrenting perspective. Not sure if you meant to ask something else, like if you’re moving or renaming the file outside of the torrent client then yeah that would break the seeding.
I’m not sure whether I get what you guys are talking about. So, OP is downloading a torrent containing a sequential zip file? What I’m asking then is, how would he be able to continue seeding if the files were extracted by the torrent client?
Another question. When I’m downloading .part zip files as part of one torrent, how can I go about continuing seeding but not having to have both the archives and the extracted files to save space? Is that even possible?
Another good option is to use something like stremio in order to watch it immediately (but be sure also to add the torrent to your main seeding machine).
