Downloads more than it need to play the video

[petterreinholdtsen]

When visiting https://archive.org/details/CaminandesLlamigos with my browser, selecting 'torrent' to start the video streaming, the content of ~/Downloads/vlc-bittorrent/CaminandesLlamigos/ end up like this:

% du -sh ~/Downloads/vlc-bittorrent/CaminandesLlamigos/*
116M    ~/Downloads/vlc-bittorrent/CaminandesLlamigos/Caminandes_ Llamigos-1080p.mp4
10M     ~/Downloads/vlc-bittorrent/CaminandesLlamigos/Caminandes_ Llamigos-1080p.ogv
31M     ~/Downloads/vlc-bittorrent/CaminandesLlamigos/Caminandes_ Llamigos-1080p.webm
16K     ~/Downloads/vlc-bittorrent/CaminandesLlamigos/CaminandesLlamigos_meta.sqlite
4.0K    ~/Downloads/vlc-bittorrent/CaminandesLlamigos/CaminandesLlamigos_meta.xml
8.0K    ~/Downloads/vlc-bittorrent/CaminandesLlamigos/__ia_thumb.jpg
%

As you can see, the video is downloaded in several versions, both mp4, webm and ogv. It would be better if the plugin only downloaded the file it intend to play, to save time and bandwidth.

[johang]

Yeah, that would be nice.

[ravindramogre]

I would like to work on the issue.

[johang]

Sure, submit a PR and I'll look at it.

[petterreinholdtsen]

@ravindramogre Any luck adjusting the VLC bittorrent plugin to only download what it need to play the video?