[Feature Request] Seeding of torrents after playback stops

[francescosoft]

It would be nice to Seed torrents after Stop for a time period. Private tracker often need this.

[samukets]

Good idea!

[platbr]

I have a idea to make this possible and very easily, once it does not need pulsar running:

• When a download get 100% completed to create a torrent file inside a specific directory.

Now users can configure their torrent clients to read this directory looking for new torrents.

[ryanfelder]

I think this is necessary for widespread adoption of torrent streaming.

Perhaps Pulsar could manage it's own seed buffer. I think a good solution would be for it to manage itself by :

1) using a percentage of free space available on the drive, set in pulsar settings. e.g. Use 50% of free space for seeding

2) allow the seed buffer to fill up until new downloads cause old downloads to be removed. The decision for what to remove should be something like ratio*availability, and drop the result with the highest value. This would prefer to retain poorly seeded torrents.

These two suggestions could be implemented on a set top box to manage the seed queue entirely automatically and would benefit the health of the swarm.

I know I sometimes download less popular videos that have only 5 or 6 seeds. These videos would not persist in a Pulsar only world.