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WebTorrent Desktop — Stream torrents
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@guy Imagine a video site like YouTube, where visitors help to host the site's content. The more people that use a WebTorrent-powered website, the faster and more resilient it becomes.
Browser-to-browser communication cuts out the middle-man and lets people communicate on their own terms. No more client/server – just a network of peers, all equal. WebTorrent is the first step in the journey to redecentralize the Web.
One of the most exciting uses for WebTorrent is peer-assisted delivery. Non-profit projects like Wikipedia and the Internet Archive could reduce bandwidth and hosting costs by letting visitors chip in. Popular content is served browser-to-browser, quickly and cheaply. Rarely-accessed content is served reliably over HTTP from the origin server.
There are also exciting business use cases, from CDNs to app delivery.
Although I couldn't install it on my Windows machine, I can really see the value of this product. Did you guys support external subtitles?
@kachchani Video subtitle support is coming. Here's the GitHub issue: https://github.com/feross/webtor...
Why could you not install it on your Windows computer? If you provide more details in a GitHub issue, we can solve the issue for you and others: https://github.com/feross/webtor...
@feross @kachchani Are internal subtitles supposed to work? I tried watching a torrent that includes a subtitle file but they didn't come up
@harlemyin it works on my media center running on windows 10. Try again? Maybe it will work.
This is simply beautiful, amazing work on the ui part, very easy to use none unneeded extra features! @feross
Btw i had designed something very similar looking in the past https://dribbble.com/shots/24781... So i am extremely happy to use it!
Tried it out and the interface is fantastic. I appreciate that it flawlessly works with Chromecast too.
I like the simple interface. It is fast and plays the video very well. I'd like bit more functionality like adding subtitles, volume controls etc.
@vinitneo Thanks! Subtitles and volume controls are coming in a future version. Here are the relevant GitHub issues:
Volume controls: https://github.com/feross/webtor...
Subtitles: https://github.com/feross/webtor...
This is a great app. Just tested and it works very well. Quick suggestion, Maybe add some keyboard shortcuts and a few more controls. Things like jumping few seconds forward/backward using the left and right arrows, jumping by a min using CMD + Right Arrow and so on.
I have a question. I've used Popcorn Time (you should be familiar) and I hate that it doesn't start loading next episode when I watch tv series, I have to manually launch every next episode. Does WebTorrent have this problem?
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