BitTorrent

Introduction

A BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) communications protocol for file sharing. There are 2 parts to a BitTorrent. The first been the torrent tracker and the second been the torrent client application.

The Tracker is simply that. It tracks what client applictions are sharing what file. The client then conntect to the tracker to dinf out where it has to connect to retreive the required file.

There are multiple trackers on the internet. You will need to choose what tracker to use. You can use multiple trackers. Usually the selection is already made for you. when you select a Bittorrent to download the torrent file will have an embedded tracker to connect to.

Naming Standards

There is no offical way of naming a torrent file that I could find but there is an acceptable naming convention that seems to be used. As torrent files can comprise of anything, I will use TV shows and Moves as an example. Both use the same naming standard.

Torrents are named as follows.

	TV Shows:		show.name.Sxx.Eyy.RipSource.AudioCodex.VideoCodec
	Movies:		movie.title.year.Ripsource.AudioCodex.VideoCodec