• polotype@lemmy.ml
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      15 days ago

      At this point, couldn’t you just use the data you already downloaded and use error correction to fill in the rest ?

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          13 days ago

          I have no knowledge about implementation… _; so… Maybe ? I was more so refering to the nature of data being transmitted over the internet. Because it has to be somewhat error proof, if you are only missing a fraction of the data, i expected that there would be a way to complete the missing message ?

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            You’re right but as far as I’m aware, that must be baked in beforehand with parity files/blocks.

            I’m only aware of a few things that do this, .NZB files used in Usenet downloads being the main thing (and of course RAID arrays).

            Bound to be more though, anyone?

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        I have no knowledge of that, but as the movies left in stasis total about 0.5% of the movies in my library I’m okay leaving it or finding a substitute. I also only use torrents, no idea about the Usenet atm

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        15 days ago

        The worst is when it’s one big archive and your can’t un archive it until it’s fully downloaded. Fuck off with your weird zip files, give me a normal mkv that I can start playing almost immediately.

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        15 days ago

        I hadn’t, but thanks for the tip! As it turns out, in all of them the movie file is 99.9%, and in all but one everything else is 100.
        I don’t have the cleanest indexers and haven’t tried to join private tracker groups, maybe that’d help, but I figured private groups trade in high quality files. I chose quantity and my movies are 99% YIFY/whatever is repackaged as YIFY nowadays