Therefore, when we're talking about ' play torrent files', we actually mean to play the downloaded media file(s), the extensions of which are usually in the AVI, MKV or MP4 format.
However, it does not contain media content at all. In other words, a torrent file is just a container of data which enables BitTorrent to find the target and complete the download.
According to Wikipedia, a torrent file contains the URLs of many trackers, an integral metadata about all of the media files to be downloaded and the additional metadata defined in extensions to the BitTorrent specification as well.
Playing with VLC +īefore we begin, there is a quick note on torrent files.
