ghost
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2 years ago Yes. Absolutely. I've always try to listen just one song from a torrent album. And it always downloads the entire album songs. The same happens with web series too. Just wanna watch a single episode, but it literally downloads the whole season for some odd reason. Just a waste of bandwidth.
I think -s is broken.
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What version of this package are you using? 4.1.0 (1.8.29)
What problem do you want to solve? Currently Webtorrent by default downloads all files when given a magnet url or torrent file. Scripts like mpv-webtorrent-hook rely on starting up Webtorrent, adding all the urls from Webtorrent into a playlist and then start streaming the files selected.
Often there is the use case where you want to stream/access one individual file and have no immediate use for the others for this session, however Webtorrent is still up and downloading/seeding everything else in the background, wasting IO and bandwidth, especially if the user has it set to remove the files downloaded on exit.
What do you think is the correct solution to this problem? Could Webtorrent perhaps have a flag (for those scripts to use) to detect those files being requested right now and download only those(and perhaps optionally the X neighboring files too for caching interests)?
Are you willing to submit a pull request to implement this change? I can't submit a PR for lack of JS knowledge