• polotype@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    At this point, couldn’t you just use the data you already downloaded and use error correction to fill in the rest ?

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        11 days ago

        I have no knowledge about implementation… _; so… Maybe ? I was more so refering to the nature of data being transmitted over the internet. Because it has to be somewhat error proof, if you are only missing a fraction of the data, i expected that there would be a way to complete the missing message ?

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          11 days ago

          You’re right but as far as I’m aware, that must be baked in beforehand with parity files/blocks.

          I’m only aware of a few things that do this, .NZB files used in Usenet downloads being the main thing (and of course RAID arrays).

          Bound to be more though, anyone?

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      11 days ago

      I have no knowledge of that, but as the movies left in stasis total about 0.5% of the movies in my library I’m okay leaving it or finding a substitute. I also only use torrents, no idea about the Usenet atm