Searched and started playing an episode of the Simpsons on my iPhone within a minute. Impressive!
Realtime streaming from torrents in the browser
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#32Guys I just broke into some guy's house that's known to be suuuuuper litigious. Check out all my selfies!
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#33How long until the creator gets arrested with a full military gear tactical swat team and paraded before CNN as an evil technical mastermind hurting the country's entertainment industry and an interview with MPAA ?
At least use a server located in countries which US cannot freely exercise it's jurisdiction powers to buy you time. Hosting Digitalocean node in Singapore won't help.
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#34Hosed. Getting timeouts for /details. 2 issues in general, though: (1) The BitTorrent protocol is not hospitable to linear downloading. (2) Pirated video content is extremely incompatible with browser-based playback... stuff like MKV and AVI containers, DTS/AC3 audio, multiple audio tracks, segmented RAR files. If this works even for vanilla MP4 content, I will be super impressed - but the browser is the wrong place…
EZTV YIFI and many more don't pack anymore the data inside rar files, and it works, you can watch silicon valley from an EZTV torrent from here http://iflix.io/#/play/ef87a3f97c653d487dece0e6ea8e60b7731a5...
Yify torrents are total garbage at any rate, you'd be better off just not watching whatever you wanted to watch rather than stare at the eyesore that is Yify. Seriously, Yify encodes are like watching something through a window coated in vaseline.
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#35Don't mean to hijack the thread, but has any of these stream-from-torrents-services developed any kind of "magnet link metadata database"? By metadata, I do not mean the common torrent metadata, but some kind of queryable index.
What I have in mind would be some kind of mapping between magnet link and themoviedb (or tvdb, musicbrainz id, etc). Seems like an obvious feature for me...
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#37I 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 presumably do the torrent fetch server side). This opens you up to liability, makes you responsible for DMCA take downs and puts the workload on the server. In contrast NimbusVid was entirely client side. The drawback was that the source data need…
This one is client-side: http://www.popcornexpress.me/ It uses Bittorent's Torque plugin. http://blog.bittorrent.com/2012/07/06/introducing-bittorrent... Of course at that point you might as well install the real thing, rather than a plugin. It's a shame there isn't a standard web-based torrenting protocol. I imagine it's technically pretty hard to do, but even if it wasn't, now that MPAA is on W3C's board and owns i…
" there's slim to zero chance such a protocol will ever become reality."
Even if you think that, I don't think you should say it out loud. Lots of great things were created because people were dumb and tried to do the impossible. There's too much gloom and doom and I think that's putting people off. Not to say that we shouldn't highlight the issue, just more in a positive light i.e "X is really tough, but if it's done this could change the Y landscape"
Merely my opinion, of course.
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#38Awesome idea, but I don't see how this will last very long. I expect your host will pull the plug in a few days to a week, especially if you're opening yourself up to downloading and then hosting the content.
I run www.moviemagnet.net which surprisingly is hosted in the US, but hasn't been taken down yet.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
This one is client-side: http://www.popcornexpress.me/ It uses Bittorent's Torque plugin. http://blog.bittorrent.com/2012/07/06/introducing-bittorrent... Of course at that point you might as well install the real thing, rather than a plugin. It's a shame there isn't a standard web-based torrenting protocol. I imagine it's technically pretty hard to do, but even if it wasn't, now that MPAA is on W3C's board and owns i…
" there's slim to zero chance such a protocol will ever become reality." Even if you think that, I don't think you should say it out loud. Lots of great things were created because people were dumb and tried to do the impossible. There's too much gloom and doom and I think that's putting people off. Not to say that we shouldn't highlight the issue, just more in a positive light i.e "X is really tough, but if it's don…
I am building a browser-based bittorrent client. Check it out: https://github.com/feross/webtorrent
WebTorrent makes BitTorrent work in the browser using WebRTC. It's designed to match the BitTorrent protocol as closely as possible, so when the time comes, existing BitTorrent clients can easily add support for this extension and peer with web-based torrent clients.
WebTorrent is already working as a node.js bittorrent client (just do `npm install webtorrent -g` and use the `webtorrent` command), and as a web-based client (though the docs for this latter part are currently very lacking -- working on it!).
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#40This is neat, but what we really need is BitTorrent over WebRTC, for actual decentralized BitTorrent in the browser. See http://webtorrent.io
The project's goal is to build a browser BitTorrent client that requires no install (no plugin/extension/etc.) and fully-interoperates with the regular BitTorrent network. We use WebRTC Data Channels for peer-to-peer transport.
WebTorrent is designed to match the BitTorrent protocol as closely as possible, so when the time comes, existing BitTorrent clients can easily add WebRTC support and swarm with web-based torrent clients, "bridging" the web and non-web worlds.
WebTorrent is already working as a node.js bittorrent client (just do `npm install webtorrent -g` and use the `webtorrent` command), and as a web-based client (though the docs for this latter part are currently very lacking -- this will improve in the coming days!).