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Streaming torrent client for node.js

18 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 2 stories, 16 comments · first 2014-03-11 · latest 2023-09-15

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  1. …needed to use a URL with the LAN IP of my computer). [0] https://github.com/mafintosh/peercast [1] https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix
    comment by TechBro8615 · 2023-09-15 · in Plex to block all servers hosted at Hetzner
  2. Is this roughly equivalent to https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix ?
    comment by anilgulecha · 2022-06-18 · in Show HN: hTorrent – A HTTP to BitTorrent gateway with seeking written in Go
  3. If you like youtube-dl you should have a look at https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix !! (:
    comment by unlivingthing · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?
  4. Peerflix[0] has existed for years now. In what ways is this project superior? https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix [0]
    comment by aphextron · 2017-09-03 · in Show HN: Watch anything instantaneously, with just a `watch “Star Wreck”`
  5. Credit to OP, this looks like a really solid project. The CLI aspect of it reminds me of peerflix ( https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix ), which I've been using for a while and am pretty happy with (no affiliation, promise)
    comment by pmatev · 2017-08-02 · in Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8
  6. What about Peerflix ( https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix )? This has been around for a while. You can actually play your videos/other stuff in the media player of your likings, like VLC, which is a mature and stable video player. Why…
    comment by theresnochoice · 2016-04-07 · in WebTorrent Desktop – Open source streaming torrent client
  7. Sounds a great deal like peerflix: https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix
    comment by hobarrera · 2016-04-04 · in Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI
  8. …from this project because of it. Indeed if you take the time to look into Peerflix's dependencies ( https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix/blob/master/package.js... ) you'll see that it, too, is based upon airplay-js, parse-torrent,…
    comment by oniony · 2016-04-04 · in Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI
  9. …a CLI wrapper for searching piratebay, parsing the results, and then streaming using peerflix. https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix I'm curious why thepiratebay npm package wasn't used instead: https://github.com/t3chnoboy/thepiratebay…
    comment by dkopi · 2016-04-04 · in Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI
  10. This is cute, but I will continue using peerflix : https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix . Loads way faster and is not hosted/tracked (besides the obvious p2p interaction). And I don't have to see ads.
    comment by geekymartian · 2014-10-28 · in Joker – Torrents to streamable video
  11. …And then watch at http://localhost:8888 with your favorite player. [1] https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix
    comment by runeks · 2014-09-07 · in Realtime streaming from torrents in the browser
  12. The node packages It uses the node module peerflix ( https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix ) is the same that popcorn-time makes use of. In this case they are identical. But subtitles and tracker health are missing. It seems that is is not…
    comment by TilmanGriesel · 2014-06-16 · in IsoPlex: Popcorn time alternative maintained by Isohunt
  13. It seems more or less like a popcorn time copy. It uses the node modules peerflix ( https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix ), read-torrent ( https://github.com/mafintosh/read-torrent ) and socket-io ( http://socket.io ) for example. You can…
    comment by TilmanGriesel · 2014-06-16 · in IsoPlex: Popcorn time alternative maintained by Isohunt
  14. You can also search torrent manually and use https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix with VLC
    comment by sheerun · 2014-03-14 · in Goodbye Popcorn Time
  15. …the frontend is all Backbone, the real magic happens in its backend dependencies like peerflix ( https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix ) and video.js ( https://github.com/videojs/video.js/ ). Edit: And, of course, the remarkable…
    comment by alexose · 2014-03-11 · in Popcorn Time – Watch torrent movies instantly
  16. https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix
    comment by CStorm · 2014-03-11 · in Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary