[kde] Re: How KTorrent commanded to download a file sequentially
giovanni_re posted on Sun, 22 May 2011 01:11:28 -0700 as excerpted: A) How can KTorrent be commanded to download a file sequentially (without gaps), rather than pieces distributed randomly throughout the file? B) How can KT be told: 1) at first, only download on torrent1 until it is completely dl'd. 2) then, switch to dl'ing 5 torrents simultaneously Using KT 3.3.4 on kde 4.4.5 in KUbuntu 10.04. Maybe these things are fixed in KT 4? - which I'll have hopefully shortly when I upgrade to KU 11.04. = also, when I do Help KTorrent handbook, it gives the popup error message: The file or folder help:/ktorrent/index.html does not exist. Is there none, or is this maybe a KUbuntu packaging problem? Caveat: I have ktorrent 4.1.1 (on kde 4.6.3) installed here, on Gentoo, but I torrent rarely enough that I don't know the application particularly well. (FWIW, I'm a reasonably heavy newsgroup/usenet user and probably never got into torrenting as the newsgroups kept me busy. But I've used torrents for distribution ISOs and the occasional specific archive I've read about somewhere, like the 17-gig archive of myspace private photos someone grabbed and torrented at one point, at times.) There's a handbook that says 4.0 included, but it's not much of one. It's basically a single intro page with one-line descriptions of some of the features, plus links to the homepage, (online) handbook, forum, wiki, and the general kde forums. According to the homepage, 4.0 was the feature release after 3.3.4, and 4.1 after that. 4.0 included magnet and uTP protocol (torrenting over UDP instead of TCP) support. 4.1 included superseeding support and a kio- magnet kioslave. There's also a UI redesign to make better use of kparts, and **VIDEO-STREAMING**, watch a movie as it's downloading. That video-streaming bit should pertains to your sequential download question, as watching the movie in random order probably wouldn't be all that satisfying an experience. =:^P For the second question, download one torrent first, then switch to five- at-once, I suspect you'd have to use the scripting interface to change the setup to fie-at-a-time once the script gets the download-finished event on the first torrent. However, as I said, I'm definitely not an expert, and it may actually be possible using torrent priority too, if it's possible to set the first one at higher priority then the five others at the same priority lower than the first. FWIW, the links... homepage: http://ktorrent.org/ handbook/wiki: http://ktorrent.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ktorrent forum: http://ktorrent.org/forum/ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: How KTorrent commanded to download a file sequentially
On Sunday, May 22, 2011 06:46:50 AM giovanni_re did opine: A) How can KTorrent be commanded to download a file sequentially (without gaps), rather than pieces distributed randomly throughout the file? That is how he torrent protocol works. You are asking for an ftp style pull. Torrents are generally pre-allocated on disk which reduces file fragmentation. One thing I always do is when the gui says 100%, I stop it from the menu stop, verify that there are no processes left, and restart it, which causes the engine to recheck the download and fix any errors. B) How can KT be told: 1) at first, only download on torrent1 until it is completely dl'd. 2) then, switch to dl'ing 5 torrents simultaneously That I can't answer. I do know there is some scripting ability, but its defaults have always Just Worked(TM) for me. Some of its earlier gui's were a disaster, but the torrent engine worked fine. [...] -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html How can you think and hit at the same time? -- Yogi Berra ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: How KTorrent commanded to download a file sequentially
In 201105220658.33822.ghesk...@wdtv.com, gene heskett wrote: On Sunday, May 22, 2011 06:46:50 AM giovanni_re did opine: A) How can KTorrent be commanded to download a file sequentially (without gaps), rather than pieces distributed randomly throughout the file? That is how he torrent protocol works. You are asking for an ftp style pull. Torrents are generally pre-allocated on disk which reduces file fragmentation. One thing I always do is when the gui says 100%, I stop it from the menu stop, verify that there are no processes left, and restart it, which causes the engine to recheck the download and fix any errors. KTorrent for KDE 3 (can't remember the version) had a per-torrent operation to prefer early chunks when your client gets a choice. This doesn't guarantee you get things completely in order, but it can (for example) get you enough headers for certain file types to get the metadata / preview / etc. earlier. Yes, the torrent protocol doesn't really allow for in-order downloads exactly, but your client can request certain chunks first. B) How can KT be told: 1) at first, only download on torrent1 until it is completely dl'd. 2) then, switch to dl'ing 5 torrents simultaneously That I can't answer. I do know there is some scripting ability, but its defaults have always Just Worked(TM) for me. Some of its earlier gui's were a disaster, but the torrent engine worked fine. I don't know a way to catch the notification that a torrent has been completed, but all the torrents and be stopped, started, and their status queried using the DBus interface in the most recent KTorrent versions. So, you might be able to write a script to do what you want by regularly polling KTorrent. The scheduler plug-in does time-based bandwidth restrictions (including stopping / starting all torrents), but it can't handle this particular use case. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] No sound in Kubuntu 11.04
Hello, Every time I boot my VAIO VPCF111FB, the sound starts working ok in KDE. After some time it is running (sometimes hours, sometimes days), audio stops working in KDE. KDE notifications don't produce any sound and KDE applications do not either. However, non-KDE applications like mplayer continue producing sounds normally. The problem is solved temporarily with a reboot. Also, when I go to SystemSettings - Multimedia after the sound stops working, I get a messaging informing that KDE has detected that one or more internal sound devices were removed (?!) and asking if KDE can permanently forget about them. The supposedly removed devices are: Capture: HDA Intel (ALC275 Analog) Output: HDA Intel (ALC275 Analog) Output: HDA Intel (ALC275 Analog) #1 After a reboot, the devices magically hurry back inside the notebook and start working again. Before Natty I was running Lucid in this very computer with no sound issues at all. This happens after a clean Kubuntu 11.04 amd64 install and also happens if I first install Ubuntu 11.04 amd64 and add kubuntu-desktop later. Since Jaunty, I have always installed first Ubuntu and later added kubuntu-desktop, because I used to have similar sound problems when installing Kubuntu directly (with other computers, before I've bought this one) that seam to be solved this way. But now with Natty, the problems persist even if I install Ubuntu first. Any idea of what may be causing this? I hate having to reboot the computer every now and then. Thanks, Marcelo ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: No sound in Kubuntu 11.04
Marcelo Magno T. Sales posted on Sun, 22 May 2011 13:42:25 -0300 as excerpted: Every time I boot my VAIO VPCF111FB, the sound starts working ok in KDE. After some time it is running (sometimes hours, sometimes days), audio stops working in KDE. KDE notifications don't produce any sound and KDE applications do not either. Also, when I go to SystemSettings - Multimedia after the sound stops working, I get a messaging informing that KDE has detected that one or more internal sound devices were removed (?!) Disappearing sound devices is a somewhat common problem with the phonon- xine backend. I had it here, and I've seen others posting similar issues. Check the phonon settings in kcontrol (systemsettings, it's not systemsettings for the most part but user-specific kde settings, so I continue to use the more accurate kde3 term), and if it's set to the phonon-xine backend, try a different one, perhaps phonon-vlc (which you might have to install, first). Switching to the phonon-vlc backend here completely solved my problem, and at least one other person reported that it did for them too, after I recommended that they try it. (OTOH, it didn't seem to help for someone else. Maybe they had other problems too.) FWIW, for some months (I'm not doing so currently as it took too much time) I was following the kde-planet sindicated feed, and during that time, probably about a year ago, one of the phonon authors posted an article to his blog saying that while phonon-xine was the earliest stable backend and thus has been the default on many distributions, xine turned out not to be as flexible as they needed, so that backend was deprecated and not getting a lot of new work done to it. He recommended the vlc backend as the one then taking the lead. FWIW, there's also phonon-gstreamer, which might be most compatible with a gnome-based distro, and may be some others as well. But the xine backend seems to be the most common, despite its issues, probably because it was the first usably stable backend, and the vlc backend is the one that blog recommended people switch to in the future, and the one that cured the disappearing device issues the xine backend was giving me. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: Kaffeine and playing files from off the local network
This is beginning to look like a bug that maybe should spread. I have been playing around with amarok which seemed to work with files off the nas. If I launch click an mp3 on the nas all is ok. It plays but if I try to generate a play list with it it fails to play them again. If I navigate to the nas via amarok and select an mp3 it won't accept it. So it looks like for some reason kde is passing it a file when an mp3 is launched. I don't think they are being downloaded before playing otherwise the playlist should still work. I wonder if this all relates to this bug https://bugs.kde.org/253547. Biggest problem with that is that the X-KDE-Protocols shown there are correct in my VLC .desktop file. Amarok only has http added. It doesn't work either way with VLC despite it having a files input which includes an increased buffer time for use over the network. I'm not sure if it's can only open local files when one is selected off the nas error message is down to kde or what. John KDE 4.6.0 - 6 64bit ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
