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The "right" way to solve it is for everyone to use seekable MP4 (or seekable WebM), especially since things like Chromecast don't natively support anything else. That's hard to do …

Plugins aren't a great solution, people don't want to install them.

Can you use magnet links?

There are now several forks with different features.

I created (and later closed) a similar service using mega.co.nz instead of torrents. The main problem I see with your approach is that you serve video from your server (and presuma…

Dropbox can see your files. If you want more privacy you can try http://www.nimbusvid.com which uses mega.co.nz plays encrypted video in the browser. Content is never sent to nimbu…

Here is a higher bandwidth link to the same video http://www.nimbusvid.com/mega/#!xAEGXQiD!ez8HoC-LS4m2k2YYGZP...

Although it relies on Mega and Chrome, neither of which is recommended in the article, http://www.nimbusvid.com streams encrypted videos from your private cloud storage in your bro…

Does it support seeking? That was one of the more painful parts to implement when I wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6006334 Downloading from a cloud service provider is …

Firefox does not yet support the functionality needed to make this work but it is being implemented.

NimbusVid nimbusvid.com - Remote only (Based in Montreal) NimbusVid is a new unfunded site that streams encrypted video from your Mega.co.nz cloud storage. NimbusVid is looking for…