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zach-morris / plugin.program.iagl

The Internet Archive Game Launcher (IAGL) will launch Games from the Internet using Kodi
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Possiblity to use torrent for fast download #245

Closed marcoboutch closed 1 year ago

marcoboutch commented 2 years ago

Hi,

is hard to add possiblity download from torrent on archive.org for fast download ? many kodi addon alreadeay use torrent. Thank you :)

zach-morris commented 2 years ago

i have actually already tried this and there's a few problems: For small files it actually makes it slower For large files, the issue with many archive.org torrent files is they become broken and no longer work (you may notice this when you just try downloading things using archive.org torrents manually). In addition, torrents only make it faster if there are multiple peers, and almost no one else seeds these torrents besides archive.org themselves.

At this point, it wasn't worth the effort in my opinion. Multi-threaded download was added in the past year, and sped things up drastically, so it's actually usable. Take a look at the advanced settings 'Download Threads' option. You can try bumping that up some and seeing if it speeds things up for you (5-10 seems to be the sweet spot for me, to high and you'll actually slow things down).