How to Watch Movies From Torrent Files Without Downloading Them? [How To]
Torrents have become the most popular way to share and download movies, there are several torrent clients that allow you to download files using torrents. But what if you want to watch a movie without having to download the torrent?
If you are looking to do that, we have found a nifty little software that will allow you to view movies without having to download the torrents. RARPlayer is a multimedia torrent player, which will allow you to view high quality movies without having to physically download them.
RARPlayer does not use much CPU resources and can be run on slower computers to enjoy DVD quality playback for movies.
RARPlayer supports all popular video and audio media file types, containers and formats such as:
DivX, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, Xvid, 3ivx, QT QuickTime MOV, RM Real media, OGM, Matroska , mkv, asf, wmv, DV, m1v, m2v, , mp4, mpv, swf, vob and wav, mpa, mp1, mp2, mp3, Ogg, aac, AC3, aif, ram, wma…
RARPlayer is free to use and is definitely a must have if you do not want to download and store the video files but just want to watch it once.
Note: You will have to download the torrent file before you can watch the movie with RARPlayer.





Pavan Kumar
July 26th, 2008 at 8:40 pm #
That’s really cool with rarplayer, less resources with live download and play…. good one…
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Rockstar Sid
July 27th, 2008 at 2:49 am #
Thanks a lot
I have upgraded my internet speed,now I can watch movies without buffering
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m.doll
July 27th, 2008 at 3:53 am #
How much speed we need to watch movies without buffering ?
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rainking
July 27th, 2008 at 5:01 am #
Okay, please tell me what’s wrong with the following:
“How to Watch Movies From Torrent Files Without Downloading Them?”
“But what if you want to watch a movie without having to download the torrent?”
“software that will allow you to view movies without having to download the torrents.”
And, at the end of all this nonsense:
“Note: You will have to download the torrent file before you can watch the movie with RARPlayer.”
Is there something about the word download that you don’t understand? It is impossible to view any file without downloading it. It might be cached as a temp file, it might be viewable as it is being downloaded (streaming), but (let me repeat this just to be clear) it is impossible to view any file without downloading it.
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
July 28th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
@rainking thanks for pointing this out to us, we will take care about such things in future.
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Minnesota Attorney
October 27th, 2008 at 5:39 pm #
The file must be downloaded to be watched. That is, how could the software on your computer present the video if the file is not loaded by the software? This is rainking’s point.
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qwerty
March 18th, 2009 at 12:20 am #
rainking, the article means downloading the .torrent file and not the contents inside it, you think ur so smart trying to point out mistakes
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Kyle
June 6th, 2009 at 2:56 am #
Well, qwerty, rainking has a point. Also, most of these so-called players you download to watch without downloading the torrents do not work on movies.
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Andrew
June 11th, 2009 at 3:15 am #
Actually this player DOES download the files in the torrent, just that it forces the segments to download in order and starts playing from a buffer, just like any streaming player, discarding played segments and downloading future segments in advance.
It uses less bandwidth because it doesn’t download all segments in random order like a normal client and less space because it only downloads the piece which it plays and a few pieces in advance.
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Jag Reply:
September 7th, 2009 at 5:57 am
Uses less bandwidth? Depends on your internet speed, if it can, it will tkae one hour to download and watch a one hour movie, if taht’s your normal speed for downloading a file that size, same bandwidth.
Less space? It has the same total downloaded, it jsut deletes as it goes, how is that useful at all. “Hey, I want to download a movie, and watch it only once, it’s still priating, but I dont keep it lol”.
It’s no better than downloading and keeping it, plus if youd ownload the full thing there is no buffering. Just pirate your movies, srs, how much is HDD space tehse days? I bought a 1terrabyte hdd for less than $150nz
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pointlessd
September 5th, 2009 at 1:27 pm #
Sequential downloading defeats the purpose of the torrent swarm. I wonder if this player even uploads back to the swarm. I would guess that it’s just leeching and not contributing to others.
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Addy
September 6th, 2009 at 2:57 am #
I think it’s a bit sad that a “techie” blog such as this can write about an application like this without knowing anything about it. Nice to know you’re just trying to pump out articles here
Next time, try doing your research. Thumbs down.
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Fx
September 7th, 2009 at 5:38 am #
This app sounds like it could be the ultimate torrent leech. It grabs the pieces it needs to play, and presumably discards them after they are no longer needed. Those discarded pieces are no longer available for uploading to the swarm. Or does this app even upload ANY pieces back to the swarm???!
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Hakeem - technology and gadgets
September 8th, 2009 at 6:42 am #
Thanks for the tip.
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jas
September 8th, 2009 at 11:26 am #
““Note: You will have to download the torrent file before you can watch the movie with RARPlayer.”
Is there something about the word download that you don’t understand? It is impossible to view any file without downloading it. It might be cached as a temp file, it might be viewable as it is being downloaded (streaming), but (let me repeat this just to be clear) it is impossible to view any file without downloading it.”
^^^^^^^ makes more sense than the article
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steve
September 13th, 2009 at 2:07 am #
Ok so this player can supposedly be called as a Live Streaming player for Torrents :p
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steve
September 13th, 2009 at 2:08 am #
still,,I`d rather go for downloading it once and watch it like many times i want !!
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