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angry-hacker
on March 4, 2012
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TV piracy groups formally adopt h264
Actually the latest utorrent lets you stream the video files while you're downloading them.
getsat
on March 5, 2012
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That's pretty cool. How does it achieve that? I'm assuming it assigns a higher priority to the chunks closer to the playback cursor.
angry-hacker
on March 5, 2012
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By the look of it, yes. With well seeded torrents it actually works very nicely.
Indyan
on March 5, 2012
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Bitcomet has actually beein doing this for ages.
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