Posted: 2/21/2006 11:52 PM
Post subject: Download all movies at once?
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Grillo
Joined: 6/17/2004
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Location: Sweden
Hi everyone! I haven't been here in ages because I've used an ISP that didn't tolerate torrent files. In fact, the last time I downloaded a movie was before oct 2004... In any case, I'm back and I thought I'd start using that Python autoseed thingie. The problem is, I deleted all the movies to free up disk space (please forgive...). I wonder if it's possible to download all movies at once instead of clicking on each link and downloading every movie one at a time. Is it for example possible to download the movies with the seeding robot? I'm asking before making myself the trouble to get the robot working, since I don't have much experience in Python except a Wikipedia robot. Thanks in advance!
Posted: 2/22/2006 7:23 AM
Post subject: Re: Download all movies at once?
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Bisqwit
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Grillo wrote:
I wonder if it's possible to download all movies at once instead of clicking on each link and downloading every movie one at a time. Is it for example possible to download the movies with the seeding robot?
Yes, it does exactly that. It attempts to seed every movie that needs seeding at a particular moment, and downloads them if necessary in order to accomplish that. But it doesn't download movies that nobody else is attempting to download.
Posted: 2/22/2006 2:38 PM
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SXL
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also, it ensures that every file that is greatly demanded, begins seeding, but there is (as far as my knowlegde of the script is) no guarantee that it will finish them. usual scenario : several people (clients) ask for a rare movie. all of those that have the script detect the demand (thanks to the scoring system). you don't have that file, but the script on your comp tries to help anyway, and download some parts along with the other clients, then seed those parts. once the demanding clients finish the download (usually before you), the score goes down, and the script on your comp switch to another (more demanded) movie. you'd have to wait that someone asks for the previous movie again to hope finish it. you finish with your harddrive filled with tons of differents movies... none of them is complete/watchable ! (unless you're lucky) hopefully, there is an option to force the script to only seed (and leech) the files that you have already begon/completed. hope that my theories about the way the script works are'nt too far from the reality ; if so, feel free to correct them.
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Posted: 2/22/2006 3:28 PM
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Grillo
Joined: 6/17/2004
Posts: 89
Location: Sweden
This seems like a good idea anyway, I have the disk space needed and I just need to help out (I know the irritating feeling of wanting to download something but not being able to because noone is seeding). I'll just have to wander down the creepy python road then, and make sure I don't get bitten... *hates all kinds of programming* Edit: I have a problem... I have downloaded the source code, but curiously btlaunchmany.py isn't there... I downloaded BitTorrent-4.4.0.tar.gz from http://www.bittorrent.com/dl/?C=M;O=D Did I download the wrong file? In that case, which should I download? Or maybe someone can mail me the file needed? My email address can be found in my profile.
Posted: 2/22/2006 9:17 PM
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NrgSpoon
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SXL wrote:
... once the demanding clients finish the download (usually before you), the score goes down, and the script on your comp switch to another (more demanded) movie. ...
I think by this point, the other seeds will see your own as a "demanding client", so unless there's some large skew which causes all the single peer downloads to turn off, it should be fine.
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Posted: 2/26/2006 12:00 AM
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Grillo
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Location: Sweden
...sssso, is there anyone who'd like to help? I'd like to get this thing up and running anytime soon.
Posted: 2/26/2006 2:17 AM
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Grillo
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Posts: 89
Location: Sweden
Sorry for spamming the forums, but I've made some progress, I replaced the source with the bt 4.1.0 source, which included the file I needed. I'm using Python 2.4. Now I'm following the instructions but when btlaunchmany.py starts it says D:\Python24\lib\whrandom.py:38: DeprecationWarning: the whrandom module is deprecated; please use the random module DeprecationWarning) ### Could not set signal handler: 'module' object has no attribute 'SIGHUP' Then it repeats "### no torrents" for eternity. I have a number of avi files in the movie directory, but no .torrent files, as the instruction page tells. I can't see what I'm doing wrong here... I'd really appreciate some help so I can get this thing going :D
Posted: 3/3/2006 8:20 PM
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Fihlvein
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Location: Finland Realms
I'm having the exact same issue at the moment and help would be appreciated. I got 10Mbit upload bandwidth and I've no really other use for it so I thought I'd help seeding some movies.
Posted: 3/4/2006 7:00 PM
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Fihlvein
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I don't really know why there isn't any activity in this thread, maybe people just doesn't know what's actually wrong but anyway Grillo, did you ever get it to work?