Vuze is a BitTorrent client, content downloader, and video player all-in-one. The application has not been created especially for the Mac. It is made on Java, which enables the developers to have it on all the operating systems that support Java. Vuze has an amazing repertoire of advanced features.
First of all, Vuze is a BitTorrent client. It can load BitTorrent files and download them quite easily. You can download full torrents or choose what files to download, which is a feature not every client has. Unlike other clients, Vuze has a built-in search engine for torrents. You can search for anything and Vuze will look for your torrent in several search engines. It already comes with a few preloaded, but you can add your own. As a BT client, Vuze works well, but it can get very slow, when working with large files. Also, recent tests show that Vuze is downloading a bit slower than uTorrent.
Content subscription and downloading is another feature that separates Vuze from the rest. There are thousands of users or companies that deliver content to end-users via Vuze. If you are looking for a music video, movie preview, or a short, chances are that it is available on Vuze, and in high-definition too. Simply searching for anything on the search box will return several results. Videos are downloaded via BitTorrent, which means that every user that downloaded the video will seed it until deleted. Thus, all the videos load very fast. There is some independent content on Vuze, too. Users upload their home-made shorts and video to Vuze and this has become a great platform for it.
Vuze also has the ability to play most files that are downloaded with it. The video player is pretty basic, but it works great.
Finally, my favorite Vuze feature is a relatively new one: video streaming. If you add your video to Vuze, it can stream it to any device on your home network. It supports both SD and HD quality, and it works like a charm. It currently supports devices like the Xbox 360, PS3, iPods, other computers, etc.
All in all, if you don't mind rather slower performance, that Vuze will give you in terms of download speed and overall feel, it is a great client with a bunch of features for every kind of user. It also makes it easier to find all sorts of content. If you are looking for something more basic and quicker, there is always uTorrent.
v4.7 [Sep 23, 2011]
- Core | Option to randomize TCP/UDP listen ports on startup
- Core | Window's user options to control computer sleep behaviour while downloading/seeding
- Core | Ability to selectively disable tracker client protocols
- Core | DNS Tracker Preferences
- Core | Added explicit application map to be used for launch operations
- UI | New column in Library views to show file extension
- UI | File view columns for CRC-32 and MD5 file hashes
- UI | Column-header right-click option on ETA/Progress columns to show absolute ETA
- UI | Torrent file index and torrent path columns added to File view
- UI | Keyboard accelerators added for Pause+Resume
- UI | Torrent creation wizard now allows arbitrary selection of files to be added to a torrent
- UI | If move-on-complete is enabled for downloads the progress of this is now shown in the Status column
- UI | Vuze remote connection status now shown in the status bar
- UI | Added custom date format for column display
- UI | Added option to disable 'backup complete' notification
- UI | Number of unread blog posts shown in beta side-bar entry
- UI | Option to specify table header height
- Srch | Search templates can now do variable substitution (no UI yet)
- Inst | Installer customize option now permits the clearing of config data
- Inst | Custom install now lets you choose Classic or Vuze UI
- Plug | DVD Burn plugin now has Library context menus to create new DVD and add content to existingChanges:
- CORE | Added .mts and .m2ts to playable extensions
- UI | Added visual feedback for device problems such as lack of disk space
- UI | Vuze sidebar entry can now be rolled up
- UI | Don't show 'all' and 'uncategorized' entries in sidebar when no categories defined
- UI | 'Draw grid lines and fill blank areas' no longer fills blank areas when uncheckedCorrected bugs:
- Core | Prevent recursive backup hell if backup location selected in wrong location
- Core | Correctly handle invalid upload_only entries in handshakes
- UI | Table headers now use system colors; IP filter on status bar now obeys system colors
- UI | Table scrollbars now have better page-scroll behaviour
- UI | Fixed ctrl+home/end not working in tables
- UI | Fixed inability to scroll completely right
- UI | Fix message texts not being resolved for sidebar entries on occasion
- UI | Allow dropping .torrent files onto blank area of sidebar
- Plug | DVD Burn: fix bug that was preventing warnings such as dual-layer, rw-disk blanking from showing
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