hi,
i was curios about the idea what could be if i could sort of "play" torrents, if they are well shared. i mean, the downstream one can get with certain files is good enough to stream it after a few minutes of buffering.
i remember that i could do that (view unfinished downloads) within Kazaa, that, different to bittorrent, downloaded progressiv. maybe there could be something like a plugin with a modifed bt client, that downloads a file onwardly to stream it to vlc, as soon as there is enough in the buffer.
could this be a new feature, or is this something that generally would not be a part of this media player (since its a player, not a p2p client)?
i am not only thinking about watching simpsons, but this could be a nice way to provide hi-res podcast-like tv to a large audience.
hope to get some feedback&ideas..
/julius.