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0 pointspzmarzly1y ago0 comments

I am using qBittorrent, and from the top of my head:

- WebTorrent and WebSocket patch for qBittorrent is ready but not merged (waiting on libtorrent's decision),

- cross-seeding support is poor (a separate "cross-seed" binary can be used to set up hardlinks to fool qBittorrent into cross-seeding, but it cannot detect duplicates on its own)

- when it comes to torrent management, there is no way to group torrents into groups with common settings (important if you use multiple private trackers) - people recommend having multiple installations of qBittorrent side by side

- when it comes to reconfiguring NAT and firewall, qBittorrent supports UPNP IGD protoocl, but I am not sure about NAT-PMP and PCP

- I have never seen qBittorrent connect to a single IPv6 peer - so I don't know if the support is there

- download order - you can choose "download in order" or "download rarest first". I dont think "download in order" downloads footers, so mp4 files won't work (IIRC mp4 store metadata in footer, mkv in header)

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WithinReason1y ago

qbittorrent has "download first and last pieces first" (in addition to "download in order") so the footer is retrieved

Marsymars1y ago

> - when it comes to torrent management, there is no way to group torrents into groups with common settings (important if you use multiple private trackers) - people recommend having multiple installations of qBittorrent side by side

Probably easiest to do this via docker-qbittorrent-nox.

> - I have never seen qBittorrent connect to a single IPv6 peer - so I don't know if the support is there

The Linux ISOs (not a euphemism) I'm seeding probably get about a third of their peer connections via IPv6.

anacrolix1y ago

See my other comments, but my client fully supports Webtorrent and webtrackers.

Not much support for port forwarding.

IPv6 definitely works.

Download order is handled by providing readers directly into torrent data and using that for prioritization. So basically request what you need when you need it. No arbitrary list of algorithms.

SSLy1y ago· 1 in thread

> NAT-PMP

https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/blob/c31d90b59ffb3910b6...

>PCP

seems like vaporware

pzmarzlyOP1y ago

Isn't PCP the only protocol of these 3 that can reconfigure IPv6 firewall?

silotis1y ago

> NAT-PMP and PCP

qBittorrent (via libtorrent) supports NAT-PMP and PCP

> IPv6

qBittorrent supports IPv6

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