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Powder Player?
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I'm not, there is a donation page on http://powder.media/ if anyone cares to use it, although I don't think anyone did yet (put it up just a month ago). I've been making video players and torrent related applications for more then 3 years as hobby projects. I also work in a company that makes torrent and video player related projects for some time now.
To shorten the story, I make these applications for myself and my needs, they are the primary tools that I use for torrents and more. I'm also an experienced developer so I always try to make things that can be used and efficiently configured by the majority of probable users. I take joy in others using these tools that I build, such people increase my general morale and keep my head up through life.
So the shortest version of it all is: It's not about the money. 😊
That's a pretty old article..
If you need to stream a torrent just use Powder Player (see /r/PowderPlayer) or Popcorn Time (see /r/PopCornTime).
Webtorrent Desktop isn't bad either but the above two are more built out for streaming at the moment.
If you're talking about streaming non-torrent content (e.g. DDLs) then check out /r/filesharing or /r/Piracy per rule #5. I wasn't sure since you're linking to a site link referring to a DDL site.
Just to clarify this plugin isn't owned or made by TPB, TorrentsTime even has its own separate website at https://torrents-time.com/
The plugin itself was made by the same guys that run the .se Popcorn Time fork. (see the TF article).
I suspect it's still pretty new so they haven't really exposed much in the way of configuration options for it. Personally I'd rather just stick to Powder Player if I want to stream a torrent, it's more built out for this purpose.
Instead of trying to make torrent streaming work on a website, you could just post the magnet links and recommend Powder Player ( http://powder.media/ ) to your users, which is a decentralized torrent streamer.
It should give you an edge (legal wise) and would also give your users the choice of how they want to use the magnet links on the site (download/stream with whatever client they prefer).
i specially like a program called Powder Player, which is basically a Video player and torrent client in one and off course supports Chromecast, DLNA, Apple TV and other players. Includes subtitles and has a download speed control which can come in handy for some people.
http://powder.media/
Andrew did a tear down of Torrents Time that can be seen here: http://blog.andrew.im/post/139084882590/torrents-time-security-issues
IMHO, streaming torrents in the browser should only be done with WebTorrent, and even then it should stream only mp4 videos..
The way Torrents Time does it at the moment:
uses huge amounts of CPU by transcoding any video type to mp4 on the fly which is known to be a heavy task, even for modern computers (but the browser can only play mp4)
will always have a lot of security issues, because the plugin itself is exposed to the browser pages and can therefore be modified/hacked by pretty much any site
can never have serious advanced options, as the HTML5 player has a lot of limitations
I'll also cast my vote for Powder Player and not just because I'm the author of it, but because I'm also a professional Web Developer and I more then understand the risks, limitations and overhead of trying to do something like this in the browser..
It's not exactly the same as popcorntime but more a media player/torrent client in one where you can drag/drop/copy/paste any magnet/torrent link/playlists and play it, you can read more about it here:
/r/PowderPlayer
And more importantly it's open source so you can be sure that it's safe to use.
Andrew also started dismantling torrents time, you can see his findings at: http://blog.andrew.im/post/139084882590/torrents-time-security-issues
People should just use Powder Player for this.
Trying to make torrent streaming work in the browser will only lead to huge CPU usage (because it's transcoding all other formats to mp4 to play them), a lot of serious security issues and a total lack of advanced settings.
You mean like Powder Player.
It supports DLNA devices like your TV.
You need to add the torrents/magnet yourself, but other than that it's pretty simmilar. Will soon has Chromecast support as well.
Here is their reddit:
/r/PowderPlayer
Edit: I can see your probably talking about local files you already have on your computer.
You can, if you use uTorrent integration, (there's a play with utorrent button in the torrent settings, but still a bit hidden, and you need to configure the default player from inside the utorrent settings)
we're also working on initial player integration, which will integrate powder player for starters (this is super cool because it can function both as a torrent client and as a player over a new pow:// protocol). Tracking issue here
Powder Player - Official Website
Powder Player streams torrents, automatically downloads subtitles, can cast to a ton of devices too. Has many advanced configurable features.
Powder Web - Project Page (download page)
Powder Web is a torrent client that creates a web server locally which supports torrent streaming, torrent searching (on any of your favourite torrent sites, through Jackett). You can then use it from any of your devices across LAN or the Internet. The web player that it's using has all the cool features of a local video player, and works on absolutely any device you can imagine through a web browser. Alternatively you can also just set it to download playlists instead of playing in the browser and play it with whatever local video player you have on your devices.
I have OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.6, re-downloaded just to make sure it works and it works fine.
Please make sure you also take note of the steps from this page: http://powder.media/installing
This needs to be done because I didn't buy a software certificate for Powder Player yet.
About the update directory, there is no auto-updater for Powder Player v1.10 yet, you should just overwrite the Powder Player app you currently have installed after opening the dmg file.
VLC or MPC HC and many other media players will give you automatically loaded subtitles if they are available in the selected language, so i would jus use a media player that support automatic subtitles so you don't need to start the download in popcorntime just to get the subtitles.
I would recommend everyone who are into torrents/streaming/media players to check out Powder Player
- /r/PowderPlayer
Some of the features Powder Player supports:
Support for all youtube-dl supported links
Support for all VLC supported media types
Auto-find Subtitles from OpenSubtitles
Casting Support for: Chromecast, Airplay, DLNA (1000s of TVs, Game Stations, some Phones, etc.), Browsers (Phones, Tablets, other PCs), other Players, Friends, etc.
Advanced Casting Features: Subtitles, Subtitle Color, Subtitle Position, Subtitle Size, Force Quality
1000+ Plugins for sites, youtube channels, etc.
Plugin Shortcuts that allow searching on sites, youtube channels, etc. and playing their feeds by just typing their shortcut followed by an action or search query in the "Use a URL" field (ex: ".yt funny video" searches for "funny video" on youtube, etc)
Porn Plugins (if your old enough)
addition to supporting any youtube-dl supported site (for example, links to youtube videos), Powder goes one step further, also supporting websites that simply include embedded videos or links to supported videos (for example, if I give Powder "http://bestofyoutube.com/" it will put all the videos on that page into a playlist and play the first, this goes for youtube search pages, youtube playlists, etc.) giving new possibilities to users that no other app has given before
>Is there any "Delete watched shows" button? I can't seem to find something related to that.
DuckieTV does not have a button that deletes/erases the episode files from the hard-drive, because it does not have access to file system services.
You see, there is only one version of the source, which was originally written as a Chrome Browser Extension, and file system access is not allowed in that environment.
Standalone was introduced later, when we discovered we could run the source under NWJS and package it on multi-platforms as an executable.
>It will be awesome if the show page would have a button "Stream to ChromeCast".
DuckieTV started exploring this feature in DuckieTV 0.50 when ChromeCast was first introduced in the early days. But was later ditched because it was a nightmare to support with lots of pitfalls behind it. It was removed in DuckieTV version 1.00
Now we just point users to getvideostream.com and the app!
See this announcement for details.
Also we are planning to add integration to Powder Player as soon as that has ChromeCast support!
>As far as I've read, the app is made with Angular and it's open source. If you point me in the right directions I might help you with those features through a pull request.
We would welcome and review any pull requests. The GitHub source for DuckieTV resides here
Meh, for streaming public torrents it seems easier just to use something like Powder Player. Most of the public seeds are going to be in the bittorrent network (trackers/DHT/PEX) not in webtorrent. You're not going to get very many new seeds, or any seeds at all, from the webtorrent side by using this sort of client just for streaming.
It's still a cool project, just not very useful ATM.
No, it is most definitely not safe to use..
See the security issues found by Andrew here: http://blog.andrew.im/post/139084882590/torrents-time-security-issues
See Torrent Freak's updated news story about it here: https://torrentfreak.com/torrents-time-faces-security-concerns-160212/
Even if everything was fixed, this would still be a very bad idea.
The way Torrents Time does it at the moment:
uses huge amounts of CPU by transcoding any video type to mp4 on the fly which is known to be a heavy task, even for modern computers (but the browser can only play mp4)
will always have a lot of security issues, because the plugin itself is exposed to the browser pages and can therefore be modified/hacked by pretty much any site
can never have serious advanced options, as the HTML5 player has a lot of limitations
I recommend Powder Player and not just because I'm the author of it, but because I'm also a professional Web Developer and I more then understand the risks, limitations and overhead of trying to do something like this in the browser.. Powder is open source, totally free and feature rich.
Check out this Power Player,you might want to keep an eye on this project for the future.
They are working on Chormecast support and has some pretty skilled people on the team.
Oh, hi there, welcome to the flock and thanks for the props :)
A complete idiot's guide to DuckieTV sounds like an awesome thing. We could make that a nice wiki page o the DuckieTV github. The current todo list is large though, and there is only a small dev team.
I understand completely that it's quite a daunting task to set this all up from scratch, especially coming from a smooth all-in-one experience like pct.
I think if you'll look at our wiki pages you'll find that /u/garfield69 made some excellent tutorials already for setting up the torrent integration on different clients.
Unfortunately I don't currently have the time to set all that up, but I can give you a couple of pointers for in the meantime that will probably make your life easier:
So first a global overview to get you started:
PCT gives (gave) you an all-in-one setup: - Streaming - Playing - Content discovery and organizing
DuckieTV gives you just the Content discovery and organizing, but can connect to your torrent client so that that handles the downloads for you.
While this is not an all-in-one experience, it does give you the flexibility to choose your preferred player and preferred torrent client.
The most used workflow would be to have DuckieTV (auto) download your shows via the torrent client, and then cast the video to your tv once it's downloaded.
I can totally recommend using http://getvideostream.com/ for that. it's a brilliant player that installs as a chrome extension and basically plays anything you throw at it on your chromecast device. If you don't have a chromecast, you could try http://powder.media/ or your existing popcorntime player since that should also just play regular media :)
I hope that gets you started for now! If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask here, we always try to answer you kindly.