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Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

#22

uTorrent has a similar function [1], but from what I've heard, it's spotty at best. It's rare that you'll get enough of the packets at the right places to get a coherent stream going. Especially if you haven't told it to stream from the start of the torrent. Gonna be interesting to see how this goes, same concept or some cool tech in the background like S3? [1] http://www.utorrent.com/help/faq/ut3#faq1

Isn't it also thought that this kind of sequential torrenting is bad for the swarm's health?

Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

#25
Although I do support (legal) torrenting, I wonder whether one can trust this applications considering the high risk of malware packaged with this application coming out of this community.

Having said that, I do not know of the developers/people behind this project, so please do not take offense at this if this is misdirected and/or wrong.

Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

#26

Although I do support (legal) torrenting, I wonder whether one can trust this applications considering the high risk of malware packaged with this application coming out of this community. Having said that, I do not know of the developers/people behind this project, so please do not take offense at this if this is misdirected and/or wrong.

Seems to be open-source: https://github.com/popcorn-time

Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

#28

XBMC torrent has been out there for a while http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736 It's free software https://github.com/steeve/xbmctorrent and uses libtorrent-rasterbar through https://github.com/steeve/libtorrent-go

Came to the thread to mention this. It's super cool, although sometimes it drops my seeders to 0 without explanation. And only on my rPi.

Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

#29
post #11

i think this community is the last place for this. I have the sense most people can figure out a torrent download and get it running. Weren't people actually able to download files and open the in the early 2000? OR has that become a resume skill too ? "Can download and run files"

Disagree COMPLETELY. I can waste time hunting down the file I need, or someone can build something fantastic to use.

Hell, when I was a youngin' I wrote FastFlick to make MY life easier. We as hackers are always striving to make things simpler for everyone, but most importantly for ourselves.

http://fastflick.blogspot.com/

Re: Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly

#30

XBMC torrent has been out there for a while http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736 It's free software https://github.com/steeve/xbmctorrent and uses libtorrent-rasterbar through https://github.com/steeve/libtorrent-go

Came to the thread to mention this. It's super cool, although sometimes it drops my seeders to 0 without explanation. And only on my rPi.

Most likely your SD card is full. This can happen on some installs like OpenELEC which don't use the whole SD card.
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