K7's Blog

Unfortunately, there seems to be no ultimate torrent client on a mac. Azuerues is feature rich, but is resource hungry;Transmission is lightweight but doesnt download everything; I liked the interface of Bitrocket, but it crashed several times that I decided not to use it.

I hoped the beta release of Xtorrent would be a perfect solution.I downloaded a few torrents using Xtorrent, they downloaded pretty quick and I was impressed.But, I was unabled to play an avi file that I had downloaded. I was thinking that maybe it was a codec issue. As Bittorent is a great solution to download files without the files losing integrity, I thought my VLC player was playing up. But when a few other files started having issues, I used Azureus to download the same torrents and it would worked like a charm, the files were playing perfectly on VLC.

Xtorrent (though beta) is not an impressive piece of software, imagine what would have happened if I had used Xtorrent to download a Linux Distro, it would have been a waste of time and bandwidth if the files had lost their integrity. So if you are downloading large files, make sure Xtorrent has nothing to do with them.