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Actually the latest utorrent lets you stream the video files while you're downloading them.


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.


By the look of it, yes. With well seeded torrents it actually works very nicely.


Bitcomet has actually beein doing this for ages.




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