Support for archives with torrents

[igorgatis]

It would be nice to be able to upload an archive (e.g. rar, zip, etc) which contains a torrent file and extra files.

Motivation:

One records a video. Torrent is widely available on the internet. Someone decides to provide subtitles for that video. He/she may provide both the torrent and and newly created subtitles into an archive.

Right now, user who wants to download torrent and such subtitle needs to download the archive, unpack it, store subtitle somewhere he/she can remember and finally merge it with download files from torrent.

If you think of user who uses a remote transmission instance, that's even more troublesome. Once archive is downloaded, one needs to upload that file through the web ui, then upload that subtitle to remote server using ftp, scp, etc. This completely kills usability of tools like Transmission Remote chrome extension.

How would it work?

The idea is to upload the archive, transmission would unpack it, find out torrent files extracted and automatically queue them for download, plus place non-torrent files under the same directory as the torrent data files. Example, consider archive foo.zip -> contains foo.avi.torrent torrent and foo.srt subtitle files. By uploading foo.zip, transmission would:

1) Create /some/path/to/downloads/foo
2) Place foo.srt under /some/path/to/downloads/foo
3) Process foo.avi.torrent which will download foo.avi into /some/path/to/downloads/foo

[killemov]

One big problem with your train of thought is that the NEW torrent, containing the .srt, has nothing to do with the OLD torrent. They will have different hashes. So your example is kind of useless.

However, the uploading of a specifically formatted archive might be an idea for initial seeding. Though for me personally not a very useful one.

[igorgatis]

I think you got it wrong. There is no NEW, neither OLD torrent. There is only foo.torrent.

Someone will zip foo.torrent and foo.srt into foo.zip. Like they do in www.filmescomlegendas.net.

A user willing to download foo.torrent will just upload foo.zip to Transmission which will then unzip it, find out about foo.torrent and foo.srt, then it will add foo.torrent to the list of torrents to download, and foo.srt into the download directory which foo.torrent's files will be downloaded to.

The "specifically formatted archive" you've mentioned is foo.zip!

[igorgatis]

Sorry, I meant http://filmescomlegenda.net/

Example: Remember me -> http://filmescomlegenda.net/?s=remember+me

PS: this site is quite slow.