Partial Download V1.2.0

[guinness]

I didn't add to the submission forum because this is a console application, though it might prove useful for some.

You see I needed an application to "partial download" a file, specially large movie file, from a given url.

Reason: This is a season of wishing each other and sending some thing to smile big or small. My mail group and individual friends send me sometimes movie file, which contains, say a funny situation of a couple on gift purchase. I do smile after watching it. So far so good. Now the problem is, another of my friend sends me the same movie but in different name and he writes only "Enjoy!". This file happens to be 84MB!! Just imagine my face after downloading on paid connection, I find the same movie, albeit in better and bigger resolution, but same.

So I need to download the first few bytes, say 1MB, of the same and check it in GOM Player. If I have watched it earlier or if it is not of my liking, I will not download it.

Download: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/inde ... ic=25052.0

[I am Baas]

Downloads first few bytes of a given url. The number of bytes can be given.

https://sites.google.com/site/partialdownload/

Dl @ https://sites.google.com/site/partialdo ... e/download

Tested: Portable

[webfork]

Note: This is a technically a command line tool so probably won't get added to the database, but it's still a great idea. Softpedia claims that it acts a little unpredictably.

Although I thought this would be for link testing, it's actually a preview tool. Essentially the author wants to grab a few megs and then run them through a player to check quality and see if it's worth getting the entire file. This is limited to web downloads and won't work with torrents.

I need to download the first few bytes, say 1MB, of the same and check it in GOM Player. If I have watched it earlier or if it is not of my liking, I will not download it.

From the author of Stick A Note.

[Wolfghost]

Mentioned here:

http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... f=2&t=7660

[webfork]

Mentioned here

Nice catch. Merging.