Is there any way to have .part files recognised and identified so you can play a torrent as it sequentially downloads?
Is there any way to have .part files recognised and identified so you can play a torrent as it sequentially downloads?
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?
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.
It's def optional, and usually default off in most torrent clients.
How do you keep seeding it then?
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.