While many clients allow you to prioritise the files, prioritising pieces is less common. On Windows I've used GOM Player, which was more laid-back with missing frames. Seeking is a bit limited and I don't remember correctly if VLC stops when encountering a (too long) gaps in video. VLC can start the playback of a file if the file's headers are downloaded (first pieces of the file).
Although you could cope with slower connection, if you download enough buffer for playback.
Download and associate movie files with mplayer (avi, mkg):
You can see that while downloading it downloads as a normal torrent client – the parts are downloaded randomly:Īfter that we can see that the rest of the file is being downloaded sequentially (blue – downloaded, green – requested): There's new client I found thanks to It is called qbittorrent and it is awesome. It didn’t have a polished GUI and took a little bit too much CPU while downloading. It is developed by a technology institute in Zurich.