Features

Does BitTorrent Mainline have an endgame mode?

Yes, BitTorrent Mainline automatically enters endgame mode when the pieces remaining are all being actively downloaded. During endgame mode, BitTorrent Mainline requests each remaining piece from multiple peers instead of requesting each piece from a single peer. This mode helps make getting the last pieces of the torrent contents take much less time than it normally would.

Does BitTorrent Mainline have Unicode support?

Yes, BitTorrent Mainline supports Unicode. The same executable can be used on Windows 9x/ME operating systems, but Unicode itself will work only on Windows NT based operating systems from Windows NT 3.51 and up.

Does BitTorrent Mainline support HTTPS or UDP trackers?

Yes, BitTorrent Mainline supports HTTPS (SSL) for both trackers and RSS feeds. UDP trackers are not supported due to the many flaws with the UDP tracker specifications, and support is not likely to be implemented.

Does BitTorrent Mainline support magnet URIs?

Yes, BitTorrent Mainline can use and create magnet URIs compatible with the Azureus magnet URI implementation. BitTorrent Mainline can generate magnet URIs for any torrent job, and magnet URIs can be opened from the Add Torrent from URL dialog. Metadata regarding the torrent contents are obtained from other peers that support the feature.

Does BitTorrent Mainline support multi-scrape?

Yes, BitTorrent Mainline supports multi-scrape and uses it when bt.multiscrape is enabled. It automatically detects trackers that do not support multi-scrape and falls back to single-scrape mode for those trackers.

Does BitTorrent Mainline support multi-tracker .torrent files?

Yes, BitTorrent Mainline supports multi-tracker .torrent files. BitTorrent Mainline announces to all tracker tiers simultaneously, but only one tracker per tier. To see all the trackers in the .torernt file, simply check the torrent job's Properties. To learn more about multi-tracker specification, check the multitracker specifications at Depthstrike.com's wiki.

Does BitTorrent Mainline support trackerless .torrent files?

Yes, BitTorrent Mainline supports trackerless .torrent files. The built-in .torrent file creator can also create trackerless .torrent files.

Does BitTorrent Mainline support UNC-style paths or network drives?

Yes, BitTorrent Mainline supports UNC-style paths (like \\192.168.1.2\C$\). Note that there may be increased disk fragmentation when saving to a network drive, since pre-allocation of files is not possible across the network.