Jonathan Wallace

WebTorrent Desktop - Stream torrents

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Guy Malachi
What uses are you imagining for the browser torrent client? I played around with the demo html page and am now wondering what it can be used for.
Feross Aboukhadijeh
@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.
Guy Malachi
@feross sounds interesting. Can't wait to see what people do with it for actual use
Ugur Mutlu
How exciting it is to witness WebRTC open the door to such great apps like this one!
Feross Aboukhadijeh
@ugumu We're excited too!
JammingPierce
Tried it out and the interface is fantastic. I appreciate that it flawlessly works with Chromecast too.
Feross Aboukhadijeh
@mrapierce Cheers! Glad you love it <3
Gabriel Lewis
@mrapierce I'm glad someone mentioned the chrome cast! I'll definitely check it out now.
Guy Malachi
Awesome! And even better news is that it supports Chromecast. Thanks for this!
Feross Aboukhadijeh
@guy Cheers!
Janet Alexandersson
I gave it a go and must say it is beautifully designed - very excited!
Yassine el Kachchani
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?
Feross Aboukhadijeh
@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...
harlemyin
@kachchani can not nstall it on my windows 10 too, says not supportted by the system
Guy Malachi
@feross @kachchani Are internal subtitles supposed to work? I tried watching a torrent that includes a subtitle file but they didn't come up
tini wini japa neezy
@harlemyin it works on my media center running on windows 10. Try again? Maybe it will work.
André J
Great UI work guys. And the Sounds!!!
Feross Aboukhadijeh
@eonpilot Thanks. UI sounds can be really fun :)
André J
@feross Just love the sounds. Makes me smile every time. Opensource sounds or?
Feross Aboukhadijeh
@eonpilot Downloaded them from appsounds.pro.
Evan Petrack
Feross Aboukhadijeh
@petrev01 You're awesome too <3
Liam Murphy
🙌
Mahieddine Cherif
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