Bug 359903

Summary:	ktorrent sequential download UI wishlist
Product:	[Applications] ktorrent	Reporter:	okgomdjgbmoij
Component:	general	Assignee:	Joris Guisson <joris.guisson>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aspotashev, bobbyraduloff, kde, king_duckz, shafff, travneff
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.3.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	All
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description okgomdjgbmoij 2016-02-28 21:20:00 UTC

These UI requests are very simple to implement. :D

1.An option for sequential download should be present in the right click menu.
2.Rename the media player plugin to something like "torrent streaming" and instead of the description mentioning the not very useful "phonon-based media player", to be mentioning something like "torrent streaming media player".
3.Also in the Help center "Previewing of certain file types, build in (video and audio)" should be changed to something like "media streaming"

The current ability of sequential download is well hidden from the user.
Two other bugs where filled over this:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306407
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320289

My self, i only find out about the existing sequential download of ktorrent when i was about to add a third bug. Very few users know about this ability. I don't find it intuitive to expect that the "media plugin" can download sequentially. Also, a user might want to use an other media player, so an option in the menu is also useful. It's a bit too hacky to use an other media player by activating the media player of the plugin....

Comment 1 Nick Shaforostoff 2016-12-08 00:27:59 UTC

currently sequential download is activated automatically when you open a video or audio file from torrent file tree inside ktorrent's bottom panel

Comment 2 Boris Radulov 2017-01-07 11:59:09 UTC

Has this been resolved? If not I'll try to implement such a feature

Comment 3 Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov (mva) 2017-09-05 05:56:27 UTC

(In reply to Nick Shaforostoff from comment #1)
> currently sequential download is activated automatically when you open a
> video or audio file from torrent file tree inside ktorrent's bottom panel

Well, it can be useful functionality, but it will be much more useful to have the possibility to manually enable sequential download on selected file (even in multi-files torrents). Even if it is not a sound/movie. Or if user want to open it in another player (like, say, mpv).

Comment 4 Andrew 2018-06-09 15:54:10 UTC

(In reply to Nick Shaforostoff from comment #1)
> currently sequential download is activated automatically when you open a
> video or audio file from torrent file tree inside ktorrent's bottom panel

Do you mean sequential download for the entire file (not only start/end chunks)?
It is described anywhere?

Comment 5 King_DuckZ 2021-05-02 21:08:50 UTC

A bit late to the party but I got here trying to solve an issue: I double clicked on a media file the whose preview was *not* available yet, and KTorrent asked me if I wanted to activate sequential mode for that file. I clicked "yes" just to see what happened, but now I want to disable it. I spent quite a bit of time looking around in the various menus and then on the internet but I can't find a way to disable this mode once activated.
Does this bug report mean that there is no way to deactivate sequential mode once it's activated?

Comment 6 Andrew 2021-05-04 13:18:57 UTC

(In reply to King_DuckZ from comment #5)
> Does this bug report mean that there is no way to deactivate sequential mode
> once it's activated?

It should be stored somewhere in text config, I guess. Would search for it with something like this:

find ~ -name '*ktorrent*' -exec grep -ir "seq" {} +