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https://www.bitchute.com/ and similar WebTorrent powered technologies are being polished right now. They don't need Youtube's server infrastructure scale to get started. They work P2P via your browser's built in WebRTC. It is supported in all major browsers and scales infinitely according to traffic.
The Internet isn't what it used to be. They are building Youtube's competition right now. This doesn't even touch on blockchain technology yet. Webtorrent just uses plain old torrents.
Get an internet connection and host a webserver yourself. It's what I do too. Unless you do something that gets thousands of users on your site simultaneously you should not have any problems. My server serves about a million requests daily from a normal computer behind a coax connection. If you properly utilize caching headers it's doable, unless you want to host videos or many very large images.
Hosting your own content is completely free, apart from the internet connection which you are going to have anyways. Thanks to fiber, hosting your own stuff becomes very affordable again.
This means if you want your own forum, go ahead. If you want to host your own videos, either get a very fast connection (you want 1gbps or more OUTGOING) or distribute the content via WebTorrent
EDIT: If you get yourself a static IP you can even become your own E-Mail provider.
Reminded me of https://webtorrent.io/
P2P doesn't really solve the infrastructure problems though. You still need servers that are going to store & seed those petabytes (exabytes?) of videos and seed them fast enough. Obviously users seeding the video to other users will reduce the load on those servers, but it doesn't remove the need in them.
I’m definitely biased, but I use WebTorrent Desktop. (I'm one of the creators of it.)
Here’s what it looks like: https://i.imgur.com/8SFP25A.jpg
WebTorrent Desktop is lightweight and fast, with a focus on UX and simple design. It’s 100% free, non-commercial, ad-free, and open source. There are no plans to ever profit from WebTorrent Desktop.
You can instantly stream whichever video or audio file you want — and it works really well. Streaming to AirPlay, Chromecast, and DLNA devices is supported. Also, streaming to VLC is supported too, if that's your kind of thing.
Here's what video streaming looks like: https://i.imgur.com/PkGp0eT.jpg
It works on Windows, OS X, and Linux — still in beta, but getting better every week! You can download it here: https://webtorrent.io/desktop
Happy torrenting!
OP might have meant WebTorrent Desktop? It is kind of a hybrid client since it can communicate with both WebTorrent & regular torrent peers.
https://webtorrent.io/desktop/
But I'm not sure if it uses the same id.
WebTorrent can stream videos through torrent and is built with Javascript. I'm not a developer, but it sounds like something that can run on ZeroNet: https://webtorrent.io/
># BitTorrent over WebRTC >WebTorrent is a streaming torrent client for the browser. YEP, THAT'S RIGHT. THE BROWSER.
>It's written completely in JavaScript – the language of the web – and uses WebRTC for true peer-to-peer transport. No browser plugins, extensions, or installation is required.
Why?
>Imagine a peer-to-peer YouTube where viewers help to host the site's content. By making BitTorrent easier to use, we can get more people to participate and take the first steps to re-decentralizing the Internet.
not really. small groups of developers have done even crazier things, like create namecoin or bitcoin themselves, or create tor, for example. here are a few examples of similar things created by volunteers recently
The P2P part is done using WebTorrent. One can seed the videos using one of the WebRTC compatible torrent clients. The simplest way to seed a lot (not just when one is on the webpage) that I've found so far is to use WebTorrent Desktop and download the torrent file from a PeerTube video.
You can follow the process of WebRTC support for many torrent clients at https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/issues/369
I started a company after I graduated from college that helped to make websites faster using P2P technology.
Here's how it worked: if multiple people were browsing the same website then they would share that website's resources with each other instead of requesting it from the website server. This is similar to how BitTorrent works, but we applied to concept to website resources.
It worked out pretty well, but we couldn't get enough customers quickly enough. So when we got the opportunity to sell the company to Yahoo (who were looking for a team of people skilled in video player technology) we jumped at it.
Right before the acquisition, I started WebTorrent to see if I could use the same ideas to bring BitTorrent to the web. In other words, I wanted to torrents to work in a web browser without any browser extensions or plugins that you have to install.
It worked out pretty well. You can see it action here: https://webtorrent.io/
Later, we thought it would be cool to make a more "normal" torrent app that you install and can run in the background. Thus WebTorrent Desktop was born. https://webtorrent.io/desktop/
The proxy will always be required though, right? So still a point of centralization in my eyes... would be interesting to see a BIP that allows P2P connections to the network via WebRTC, similar to what they're doing with WebTorrent (https://webtorrent.io/faq)... then desktop wallets could add support and we'd have nice browser<>desktop interconnectivity :)
> As an aside, I'm working on an ultimate/comprehensive CH torrent archive, which I'd like to keep to constantly updated (i.e. widely available, with monthly updates).
See combine that with something like this: https://webtorrent.io/ and there might be potential for a site of some sort.
We have WebRTC Data channels which are end-to-end encrypted. This supports file transfer and event a limited set of torrents
If you have upload bandwidth, you can try seeding the videos on https://videos.blender.org, with these steps :
- install a WebTorrent compatible torrent client (such as this one)
- download the torrents for the videos you want to seed (on the video page -> "..." button -> Download -> As Torrent)
- seed the downloaded torrents from your WebTorrent client
FIL price 2.63 - perfect! If you missed out, don't be salty - at least now you know what price you will be getting at the exchanges and you avoided potential risk that was indeed real.
In my opinion IPFS is currently the most important protocol for the decentralized internet to even work. I don't care if FIL goes to 0 and I lose my entire investment because I fundamentally believe this is a HUGE missing link that we really need for dapps to even go mainstream.
It's a little difficult to put this into just a few lines so just go here and be blown away by what it could deliver on a large scale in the future: https://webtorrent.io/ ... I believe IPFS+FIL can ultimately become the largest distributed network in the world and help to deliver content faster than ever before because of P2P nodes just like webtorrent uses, it's pretty epic right?
I intend to write a lengthy report about Filecoin and why I believe it could eclipse both ETH and BTC in the distant future. I see IPFS as fundamental as HTTP and Filecoin is the possible incentive layer that could make IPFS a mainstream protocol.
Or if you want to stream the movie without waiting to fully download it first, use https://webtorrent.io/ . Just copy that line, open webtorrent and press ctrl+v
Heads up: Webtorrent is in beta, so it has less options. You can still stream and even seek the movies before it's fully downloaded though.
Unfortunately this is not quite possible ... until browsers allow making TCP connections (currently only webrtc connections are possible, which is not compatible with most bittorrent clients; see https://webtorrent.io/ for more info )
well anyone can try it by navigating to this website and if the opening video (less than 200MB) starts to download their browser should support it. I know it works on some webkit browsers
Yeah, but if you know the address of a single well known peer and can manually connect to them then you can use that peer to bootstrap the rest of the DHT and now you have a way to find peers without relying on the trackers that are blocked. The iptables rules might be more effective if the heuristics are good enough but will this catch WebRTC connections from something like WebTorrent...
Webtorrent enables leeching and seeding on the BitTorrent network, and facilitates the consumption of whatever content it is you've downloaded all within the web browser.
More information can be found here: https://webtorrent.io
I would suggest you actually just stream the torrents directly. Use a streaming torrent client like WebTorrent or Soda Player. For popular torrents the speed is very fast and you can often start watching within a minute. Just look for torrents in the popular torrent index sites.
There is a growing number of sites that use webtorrent, bittorrent implemented iirc in javascript in the browser via nodejs and webrtc. There are already services using it
Somoene needs to use the voat code and make it work via webtorrent and put posts on the blockchain with the option of having subs go decentralized via namecoin
and it's all over for reddit and clones
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file transfer protocol for sharing large amounts of data over the Internet, in which each part of a file downloaded by a user is transferred to other users.
WebTorrent is an independent project started by Feross Aboukhadijeh in October 2013 and is the first torrent client that works in the browser. YEP, THAT'S RIGHT. THE BROWSER. BitChute is powered by WebTorrent.
> What is the Latest Build?
Here: https://ci.popcorntime.sh/view/All/job/Popcorn-Time-Desktop/277/ (Dev changes to the official build - pre-update).
>I can watch is between 120 and 600 kB/s on a 10mbps download speed from my ISP with my VPN on.
[1MB/s = 8Mb/s] ... so your ISP's 10Mbps = 1.25MB/s (max). If your VPN is poor, you could lose up to 50% of that - so 750KB/s (max). Mine is (fibre) about 40Mbs = 5MB/s. Less about 25% for my VPN .... I'm left with 3.75MB/s (max).
>I tried watching the Commuter and the download is also round 50kb/s.
As with the OP - that wouldn't be "normal" (I just tried it and I'm getting around 2.4MB/s). Try the new build?
How many peers do you have @ 50KB/s ? Problem looks like you've few peers and losing peers (getting dropped by the torrent trackers). How does Commuter/Maze Runner 3 download on PT, with your VPN off?
You can only download as much as the "torrent" circumstances allow - not according to your max download speed.
>How do you copy the magnet link from PT.sh to a WebTorrent desktop app for better viewing?
I wouldn't necessarily say "better viewing" - I use the WebTorrent app (https://webtorrent.io/desktop/) as my download client ... and a back-up. (Still in beta shape - I think). If you click on the magnet icon in the PT.sh "watch now" window - your default client (in my case WebTorrent) will download the torrent. As it's downloading you can play the movie - or stream/cast/dlna it.
I also like/use Soda Player app (playback MKV files, without using VLC). Playback/download seasons.
I haven't really looked into it technically, but as far as I know it's the bittorrent protocol build in to the browser. Here is the project's website: https://webtorrent.io/ It has a visual explanation on the homepage with text explanation under it.
I just did a experiment:
First I downloaded: https://webtorrent.io/desktop/ and installed it on my PC. It can both download torrents and webtorrents.
Then I went to TPB and grabbed a magnet URL for a musicvideo in mp4 format and just added these open webtorrent trackers to the magnet URL: &tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.fastcast.nz&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openwebtorrent.com&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.webtorrent.io
I then tried to open the magnet URL with trackers and webtrackers in this webtorrent player: https://ferrolho.github.io/magnet-player/
It didn't work because there was no seeders of course for webtorrents.
But when I started to download the same magnet URL with WebTorrent Desktop it started to seed to the webtorrent trackers and the video started to automatically play in the browser, https://ferrolho.github.io/magnet-player/.
So as long as a torrent client can handle both torrent and webtorrent it will work fine. When trying to announce to a webtorrent tracker from a client that cant handle it, it just wont connect. I hope we will see more regular torrent clients supporting webtorrents in the future.
Casting in the browser, or your phone, is not quite the same as discovery in PT. As it works for many users - the issue is likely to be something within your local network or OS.
Try this - just to see if it's working in a different bittorent player? https://webtorrent.io/desktop/
Since shit-tube removed the video, it might be a good time to let some people know about BitChute. It's a decentralized webtorrent based sharer. Would be cool if it took off.
WebRTC requires a stun server to make the connections with other peers, but it's works the same, P2P way.
Visit https://webtorrent.io/ - the video will be automatically downloaded to your computer and you start serving it to other peers.
Something like BTorrent perhaps? That said I suspect this won't work the way you think it will.
> І'd rаthеr usе thе vрn ехtеnsіоn іn mу brоwsеr
And you're 100% sure that VPN service is torrent friendly? AFAIK there are no browser VPNs that are also torrent friendly (assuming you find a way to get them to work with torrents).
> Вut і'd lіkе а сlіеnt thаt wоrks muсh thе sаmе аs qbіt, јust thаt іt's dоnе іn thе brоwsеr
Yup, something like BTorrent. Keep in mind that it is based on WebTorrent which works using WebRTC. WebRTC is already well known to leak your real IP address even with a regular VPN connection, in fact a lot of people disable it when using a VPN.
The other thing with WebTorrent is that torrent swarms stay within WebTorrent & aren't merged with the regular torrent client swarms (not yet anyway). So lots of torrents won't find any seeds within WebTorrent unless someone is specifically helping to seed it with something WebTorrent-based.
This sounds like an impossible task to find a browser VPN that is torrent friendly, that actually works with a browser based torrent client, & be sure that the configuration doesn't leak your real IP anyway. Most of your question is probably better for /r/VPNTorrents (see rule #4) but at least you have a browser based torrent client to test with.
Actually pretty easy to do within a week or so of development (for MVP). Not terribly difficult even without Ethereum, although you could do it with Ethereum as well (may extend dev time due to unkowns / bugs). Key architecture components:
Store content on IPFS or even Bittorrent & create a youtube-like UI (for familiarity). See here for demo: https://webtorrent.io/ As far as the monetary side- he / publishers could accept Bitcoin / Ethereum donations (similar to Stefan Molyneux).
I personally don't have the cycles to develop it ATM, however, my buddy does, if people are really interested, we could get some development funds going to get it banged out- i'd even donate myself :).
It used to be better as it was completely free, nowadays it doesn't work as well anymore.
I recommend using https://webtorrent.io/.
It allows you to watch a movie while you are downloading it, the only difference between Webtor and WebTorrent is that one is a web client and the other one is a program.
I use the WebTorrent Desktop app on Windows, which can stream most magnet links! It supports Mac and Linux too, but I haven't tried those versions and you probably have better options. It's also open-source on GitHub: https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop.
I find it way more straightforward than AceStream, but to each their own :-)
Look into WebTorrents. WebRTC can be used to leverage torrent technology. In my opinion, not enough people are implementing this feature in their webRTC projects. I think by adding this tech to your app, you can create a true value proposition that separates you from the competition.
For example: Imagine creating a conference room to stream a movie with your peers. All you have to do is use the magnet link to pull the torrent and all browsers would support the p2p connection.
Satellite is p2p!
>Our servers periodically archive everything signed by users to create an "epoch", which is like a bundle of all the content and interactions on Satellite during some period of time. Each new epoch, in turn, is itself signed (by @satellite, as the epoch signer) and published on a decentralized network. Clients of Satellite (including your browser right now, if you're reading this on satellite.earth) automatically contribute to hosting these epochs' metadata via WebTorrent, ensuring that the entire dataset representing the cumulative state of the network up until the most recent epoch always is available, resilient, and exportable—even if Satellite's servers go down.
> I don't mean to be rude or anything, I'm just looking for open source software, as it is a lot easier for me to trust.
I share the same thought
btw webtorrent.io has some software on their FAQ https://webtorrent.io/faq
Nearby share is it.
There's real value in P2P instant transfers. I find myself using https://webwormhole.io all the time for that reason which is open source and uses WebRTC data channels to transfer files, same trick in a different clothing to https://WebTorrent.io which is much more sophisticated.
No not as far as im aware, it focuses more on simplicity than user options.
Are you wanting to sleep/shutdown once a download is complete? That might be easier to do via some scripting watching the network traffic, ie, if theres less than 1mb/s for 5 mins then shutdown. Again, will depend heavily on your OS.
But i am not aware of any clients that offer that feature, though webtorrents been my primary client for well over a year now so maybe im outta the loop 🤷♂️
Thanks for such a detailed response! Bitswap seems interesting, will definitely have to read up more about it. Understand the Catch-22 situation. Hosting on IPFS is noticeably slow right now.
However, i do feel for a few use cases: like sharing becoming faster as more people use it are better solved using torrents like Webtorrents (https://webtorrent.io/), since BitTorrent is essentially widely used (however notoriously).
Whats stopping browsers from speaking IPFS directly, when webtorrent works?
To get some Full-Stack-development experience, I recently started a new project with the endgoal being a selv-hosted Developlent- and Utility-Server. the part i'm currently working on is a torrent-Daemon for expanding my knowledge on inter-process and inter-domain communication, proxying and socket handeling. And it would eventually serve as a platform to experiment on the viability of torrents and other peer-to-peer data exchange. currently i'm thinking packet-managment and loose clustering and PoC of alternatives to the Cloud
Currently i'm working on a terminal interface to learn about delegation, caching, lazy evaluation and asyncronous data itteration and tree-mapping. i was using enquirer but i'm exeeding it's limits and ended up havimg most of the functional code suplied by me or nodejs so i just started transitioning to selfemade implementation in TypeScript (havent used TS much, so progress has slowed down a bit) The Database will be powered by MongoDB
for the time being, the target enviornment will be a docker-image (node:alpine) for various security reasons during development.
all of this should progress relatively smootly
and now the portion that worries me:
- the actual torrent client
Originally i thought about using qbitTorrent, as it's an exelent application. but when interacting with the backend directly, it lacks stability and ease of use. The only active bitTorrent client in JS apprears to be WebTorrent. And i'm allready praying that its library is solid as really would like to avoid having to learn all the specific protocols. And i'm not looking forward to guarantee security during experimenting around with it, running it in a docker container can luckily cut me some slack.
Does this sound 'backend' enough for you?
Do you have any input, suggestions, tips or comments?
Also wenn du auf https://webtorrent.io/ (alles legal, keine Sorge) gehst wird sofort, ohne nachzufragen, ein Video abgespielt, welches per p2p bereitgestellt wird. Man selber lädt dabei auch etwas hoch. Auch wenn man auf einer Peertube-Instanz ein Video anschaut wird nicht nachgefragt, der Browser lädt trotzdem hoch.
It's also not really as decentralized as it seems.
bittube.tv loads a lot of their assets from googleapis.com and Google's Firebase: firebasestorage.googleapis.com
LBRY loads a lot of their video streams from AWS, I wonder who is paying for that.
Bitchute used to use webtorrent (p2p) but doesn't seem to do that anymore.
DTube and Peertube are the real deal but struggle to do quality delivery of video content.
I think nobody should be surprised about that. It needs a critical mass for these technologies to work well, especially if most users are in a browser.
Because the browser only supports p2p in a limited way:
Would be a lot better when these are standard parts of the browser:
True, would be better to ask in /r/WebTorrent.
Thing is that WebTorrent swarms are distinct from regular torrent swarms so OP would need to be seeding the content using a WebTorrent client, or a hybrid client that connects to both Webtorrent & Torrent swarms. Most of the regular Torrent clients do not interface with WebTorrent swarms.
OP's downloaders also need to have WebRTC enabled in their web browsers. (I think that is usually enabled by default..?)
That's not fun :(
I'm seeing activity, but there can be all kinds of problems that prevent downloading. A couple things you can do to check.
First, if you go to the WebTorrent.io website, they have a video at the top that automatically starts downloading. You should be able to play it if everything is working properly. This is your test.
Next, make sure you have a fairly modern browser with Javascript. WebTorrent requires the WebRTC protocol to communicate with other nodes. This usually means Firefox or Chrome (or some other browser that is fairly current with standards) along with modern Javascript.
Let me know what you see.
> Only downside is you need to wait couple hrs.
Depends on how you download. Watching while downloading is possible for most video formats as long as the client supports it. Tools like popcorn time and Webtorrent do this.
I find WebTorrent best since it provides very good speed and you can easily watch any videos you want to watch while downloading. Plus it is free. You can download it here: https://webtorrent.io
uTorrent portable will probably be the fastest.
There was once an online service, like btorrent.xyz or instant.io that allowed watching inside the browser (even while downloading) but I cannot find it.
There are clients where you can do this, but they are desktop apps , for example: https://webtorrent.io/desktop/
Popcorn Time. It is a piece of software, a mobile app, Android TV app, and a Kodi plugin. It works similarly to the WebTorrent, but the difference is that PopcornTime lets you browse through their collection of pirated movies/TV shows. The Netflix of pirated movies. WebTorrent is just a torrent streamer.
>qbitorrent
ese tambien lo vale, pero yo personalmente lo siento un poco tosco en apariencia XD
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si quieres ver series o pelis por torrent mas "en caliente" (sin esperar la descarga completa) busca webtorrent
The bandwidth BitChute uses is vastly reduced once more than one user is viewing - because every viewer becomes a node which also streams.
See https://webtorrent.io for more details.
He calls his Bittorrent client "lightweight" despite being based on Electron, and this client also ~~spies on users~~ collects telemetry data. So ads on the terminal seem right up his alley.
Easiest is to download the webtorrent client from https://webtorrent.io/ and then just copy/paste in the link from magnet:... until the end.
With a webtorrent client, you can start watching while it's downloading. You don't have to download the whole file first.
> [VideoServer] and not every independent creator can afford one.
PeerTube is free. You can install it on any old box you have lying around at home and start uploading your videos there. Traffic requirement is only minimum because if two people watch the same video, they will exchange video segments too. (It works based on WebTorrent if this interests you).
If I like your videos I can "follow" your instance (if you allow this feature) and they will show up on my dashboard.
Pro:
- Fully independent hosting
- No bogus DMCA/takedown requests that are blindly honored by the system
- Control over your own data
- Doesn't hogs too much bandwidth
- Nobody to share your ad-revenue with
- No automatic content-id
- Your own rules
Cons:
- Need to setup and maintain this for yourself (very simple but still needs to be done)
- You need a "somewhat" stable internet connection if you host this from your home connection
- You need to set up ads yourself (adding the ad-code to the html like you would for a personal page)
- Need to handle complaints yourself
thanks for the pics sauce. in return i did some searching on the anime sites i know i found it on nyaa.si here i did not check it but it has 4 different episode sized mkv files if you need a torrent streamer for them i use webtorrent
you should try webtorrent desktop, I switched to it from qbittorent and deluge and haven't had any problems. it's crazy fast compared to any other client I've tried and plays nice with PIA. it's a little barebones in terms of settings and preferences but it works so well you won't even miss those settings.
Chuta solo lo he bajado por torrent. Igual hay un programa que te deja ir viendo el episodio mientras se descarga y cargar subtítulos que puedes bajar de subdivx
Nem precisa de fazer download e esperar, basta usar WebTorrent e funciona como stream, se quiserem legendas vão ao opensubtitles ou usam com um player externo que faça isso.
Ou então para nem perder tempo a procurar usar Sonarr(séries)/Radarr(filmes) que faz isso automaticamente
Com um client decente com qBittorrent ou outro.
E porque não stream, não com sites ou programas manhosos, mas podes fazer stream de qualquer torrent de video sem ter de fazer o download complete, por exemplo com WebTorrent (ou baseado)
PS: O mesmo é possível com qualquer client de bittorrent que transfira o inicio e fim incialmente
> Es ist ein P2P Streamingdienst. Das ist kein Torrentclient!
Direkt von der Webpage:
> Bitlove creates Torrents for all enclosures of an RSS/ATOM feed and seeds them
Es ist ein Torrent Client, der die Torrents live abspielt.
Oder um direkt das FAQ ihres Clients zu zitieren:
> WebTorrent is the first torrent client that works in the browser.
> Das ist für dich „nur ein konstruiertes Problem“, weil du davon ausgehst, dass es anders ausgelegt wird, als es dasteht.
Ich verstehe nicht was du meinst. Ich habe dir direkt die AGBs zitiert und da steht kein Wort davon, dass eine fehlende Zuordnung zur Ablehnung führt. Deshalb noch einmal: Kennst du einen Fall, bei dem das ein Problem war?
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I think the push to CLI seems to be to allow interoperability with subprocess methods, where another language wants access to the power of another.
Currently, I'm looking at deploying python based things with Webtorrent and I really don't want to reimplement all the things necessary, so I wrote a CLI for it and then run pexpect with python to interact.
Seems like a good shortcut that if the project succeeds could be reimplemented at a later day.
So my use case is basically avoiding the problem.
So if anyone has a script I can run, I have some hardware at my disposal. Or torrents, and just add some seed boxes. Might even be a good candidate for https://webtorrent.io/. Keep the signal alive people, this is publicly funded data and intelligence! Even if you don't agree with it, we should always keep a record since it's the tax payers money!
This is what I read
>How does WebTorrent work? The WebTorrent protocol works just like BitTorrent protocol, except it uses WebRTC instead of TCP/uTP as the transport protocol. In order to support WebRTC's connection model, we made a few changes to the tracker protocol. Therefore, a browser-based WebTorrent client or "web peer" can only connect to other clients that support WebTorrent/WebRTC. The protocol changes we made will be published as a BEP. Until a spec is written, you can view the source code of the bittorrent-tracker package. Once peers are connected, the wire protocol used to communicate is exactly the same as in normal BitTorrent. This should make it easy for existing popular torrent clients like Transmission, and uTorrent to add support for WebTorrent. Vuze already has support for WebTorrent!
Yes your right they are the same, I didn't express my thoughts very well by saying "Webtorrent and Bittorrent are two separate protocols."
What I was trying to say it is Bittorrent is incompatible with Webtorrent because they had to change the protocol slightly to work with WebRTC. In my past self defense changing the existing protocol could be interpreted as making a new protocol. But I better interprication would be calling this a version upgrade or
But a better interpretation would be calling Webtorrent a fork of Bittorrent.
I've used Beamer for years - but that's mac only.
Recently tried http://airflowapp.com - works ok with ATV3 ........ not sure about 4th Gen.
https://webtorrent.io/desktop/ is also a useful app - but it's meant primarily for torrent files or magnet links.
Edit: neither will show up in the PT "watch now" list ( just in case you were wondering :)
I mainly use Beamer with downloaded files - but thats mac only.
For downloaded files http://getvideostream.com is popular, but I found http://airflowapp.com to be a great little app.(with subs)
For torrents I've been trying out the https://webtorrent.io desktop app: works well - with a little experimentation you could combine it with the PT torrent file.(with subs) ........... but maybe that's too elaborate?
They all play mkv files.
There are multiple torrent clients written in JS.
Paul Kinlan, a Google web developer, has done some work with torrents in the browser.
Here is a streaming site built on torrents.
I don't understand the difference in using a developers app offline vs online. You're still using their app. You can even examine the code in the browser using the devtools.
I use vpn.ht and are very happy with their service and price. No Restrictions/Throttling on traffic and i can torrent on all their servers. They also have a 30 day money back guarantee so you can try it out before deciding anything.
I use Tixati as a torrent client, if your thinking about changing Torrent client i would give it a try.
Here is also a brand new Torrent/streaming client alternative you can try Web Torrent, it can both download and stream the content without having to use any extra software. It even has Chromecast, DLNA and Airplay support.
Something like Webtorrent could also be used for streaming torrent through a website. It is completely based on Javascript and doesn't require any browser plugins or anything, but a browser: https://webtorrent.io/faq
>WebTorrent is the first torrent client that works in the browser. YEP, THAT'S RIGHT. THE BROWSER.
>It's written completely in JavaScript – the language of the web – and uses WebRTC for true peer-to-peer transport. No browser plugin, extension, or installation is required.
>Using open web standards, WebTorrent connects website users together to form a distributed, decentralized browser-to-browser network for efficient file transfer.
Here is a video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w_6dfqrpzk
The tech is definitely there - look at https://webtorrent.io/
Also http://fastcast.nz/videos/awakening-new-zealand-4k.html
That streams directly from a bittorrent - ONLY using JavaScript. Impressive, isn't? Even worked on my phone.
There's an experimental technology called WebTorrent which uses WebRTC (whose original purpose was video chatting, but has the infrastructure in place for peer to peer communication on the web) to bring torrents to the web.
So, we can all share the content with each other instead of relying on a centralized website.
It's going to be a losing battle for traditional media companies who charge for content instead of creating new business models and technologies.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxHRATfvnlw, a talk by Feross Aboukhadijeh, the guy behind the tech if you're a programmer.
who it work torrentweb in combination of zernet? have you a exemplar for a script zb, import a "big picture" for zb "zeroflicker" i have the test the exemplar from https://webtorrent.io/docs but not work, wats rong ? must everybody install npm install webtorrent ?? thanks
Browers can connect directly to other browsers using WebRTC. There is a project called WebTorrent which is torrent over WebRTC. Fastcast uses WebTorrent to play videos in your browser. This + anonymization is what Browser Popcorn Time should be.