Why are your torrent files so big?

[Sparrow]

KLAXXON, why are your torrent files are always a lot bigger than others? (Usually over 200KB when it seems most torrent files are 10 to 30K)

I'm not talking about the size of the AVI file, I'm talking about the actual little torrent file, like the type one gets when he or she goes to Mininova, Piratebay, Etc. Most of the time they're only about 15 K-bytes, but yours are always over 200 K-bytes. Ican't help but wonder what else is packed in with your torrent files, besides the basic info needed by Utorrent, etc

Perhaps you can solve this mystery for me.

[KLAXXON]

The Torrent Files are so big because the torrents are encoded with 64kb torrent pieces.
we do this as we have optimized the settings of our client to distribute the files as quickly as possible,
Once one file is uploaded and there are a few seeds we move onto the next torrent.
Thus we can distribute upto three films per day

[Sparrow]

Thanks for the reply. I didn't really understand what you meant at first, but I did a little digging on the internet and found some information in a table which helped me get what you're saying.

My understanding is:

If you take a 700 MB AVI file and cut it into 1 mb pieces, you'll get 700 pieces and therefore end up with a torrent file that's 15 KB (what we're used to seeing). However, if you cut a 700 MB AVI file into 64 KB pieces, that creates 11,200 pieces rather than 700 1 MB pieces. That, in turn, means the torrent file will be about 240 KB (and that's what we see with KLAXXON files).

The math certainly works -- there are 16X more pieces involved with 64 KB pieces versus 1 MB pieces, so the torrent file size will be 16X larger.