for checking if the torrent is a fake or a valid one) shortly after starting the download. This option is also really useful for previewing the video contained inside multi-volume RAR archives (i.e. If your designated player is one capable of playing video content from inside RAR archives (see the end of this subsection for details on that), then you will be able to play the video file without having to extract the contents of the archive first. The “ Play File…” command, which is accessible from the right-click context menu of any selected file in the Files tab will be enabled for any file type, once this advanced option is enabled and it will pass the selected file to the player assigned for BitComet (in Advanced Options–> ui.preview_program_path), which will attempt to play the file. Starting with BitComet v.1.23 a new advanced option was introduced ( ui.preview_any_file), which, when enabled, will allow the user to “play” any type of file from inside the Files tab of the Detailed Info Pane, not just video/audio files. There is also another function built in BitComet which once enabled, attempts to make the whole file available for preview, while downloading (see “How to enable preview of the whole file” down below).

With this new function, you can check the content by previewing files and deciding whether to continue the download or remove the task and its files from your computer. And there are some torrents containing fake files which may waste lots of your time to download. At present, most of the video files on the Internet have huge sizes, some files going even as big as several Gigabytes. With Bitcomet (version 0.60 or above) you can preview the videos only minutes after downloading has begun, instead of waiting even dozens of hours to finish the download. (However, since version 1.23, the preview program can open any files from task list regardless of the file type granted certain conditions are fulfilled.

media files, is available during the downloading process.

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