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Stream Torrents Instantly From XBMC
- steeve 13y agoAlso important to note that you can send magnet links from Chrome to it (a-la Chromecast) via the Play-to-XBMC Chrome extension. Supported platforms are: - Windows x86 x64 - OS X x64 - Linux x86 x64 (XBMCbuntu) - Raspberry Pi (Raspbian, OpenELEC, Raspbmc, Xbian) - Android 4.0+ ARM
- Touche 13y agoSlightly offtopic, what is considered the best RPI distro for xmbc?
- kyriakos 13y agoI tried both Raspbmc and OpenElec. I didn't see a significant difference in performance. Using Raspbmc now. Unless they made some significant changes to OpenElec the past 3-4 months they are more or less the same.
- colinramsay 13y agoI pretty much did the same, I started with OpenElec because my pi shipped with it, changed to raspbmc because I liked the fact it was debian-based. There really doesn't seem to be much performance difference.
- Sarkie 13y agoHaving tried them all. I went with XBian in the end, their latest updated made it faster imo.
- steeve 13y agoI myself am on OpenELEC, works nice
- johnchristopher 13y agoI tried the three main XBMC distro: raspbmc, openelec and raspbian. I early dismissed raspbian because of the lack of updates. I liked raspbmc because it's a debian and it's easy to add more features to the PI but I dislike and used to fear the monthly update. It would often break my installation (the dreaded endless reboot loop). I like openelec. It feels lighter but it's hard to add anything to it because it's a custom-tailored linux distribution at its core. Can't see any differences between the three of them xbmc-feature wise. Most kinks (audio gap when playing songs, etc.) have been ironed out now. I now use raspbmc with auto-update turned off.
- ChrisClark 13y agoI'll just throw my vote in for OpenElec. But by the replies you've already gotten, there really doesn't seem to be a clear winner. I actually have two RPIs, Raspbmc seems to corrupt more on one of them. I stuck with OpenElec because it works great on both. In fact, to prevent corruption of the SD card, I followed a tutorial and have the data on a USB stick, so the SD card just holds the system, only gets written to on a system update.
- newman314 13y agoHow do you install it to RaspBMC using the XMBC interface directly? Also. what port does it use so that I can set the appropriate firewall rules?
- j_s 13y agoAdditional links also relevant for this crowd: https://github.com/steeve/torrent2http https://github.com/steeve/torrent2http - turns magnet links into sequential HTTP downloads https://github.com/steeve/libtorrent-go https://github.com/steeve/libtorrent-go - Go bindings for libtorrent-rasterbar http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/ http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/ - 'efficient, easy' torrent library
- steeve 13y agoI'm also hosting an up-to-date mirror of libttorrent at https://github.com/steeve/libtorrent https://github.com/steeve/libtorrent
- rakoo 13y agoAlso worth the look: https://github.com/jackpal/Taipei-Torrent https://github.com/jackpal/Taipei-Torrent - Taipei-Torrent, a working pure go bittorrent application Disclaimer: I participated in it.
- steeve 13y agoCool. How mature is it ?
- rakoo 13y ago"It works" in the sense that you can use it as a cli tool to download/share a torrent, much like aria2 would do. It implements many standard features ((multi) tracker, extensions, dht, magnet, ...), with the following notable exceptions: - no peer choking - no throttling - no LPD/LSD - no PEX also, its output is quite verbose. All things considered, a very pleasing experience with Go that works. Not used a lot though I'm afraid.
- Shorel 13y agoWhy can't I find it from inside XBMC ?
- starik36 13y agoDoes it provide PeerBlock (http://www.peerblock.com/ http://www.peerblock.com/) style protection? Or can it be integrated into it?
- steeve 13y agoIt doesn't, but it could
- Seeless 13y agoPeerblock is effectively useless. There's no reason to waste time implementing it.
- starik36 13y agoWhy is it useless?
- glomph 13y agoBecause it is trivial for anyone who wants to sample a swarm to get a new IP address.
- mrindianteen 13y agocare to share why? I've been using it for a couple years now.
- bduerst 13y agoHonestly, I feel this comes a little too late. It would have been nice with RaspBMC, but I've recently switch to using Put.io + Chromecast. The fact that Put.io has almost instantaneous access to entire torrents is kind of a dealbreaker.
- stingraycharles 13y agoHow legal is that anyway, since they're acting like a sort of proxy server for torrent data.
- bduerst 13y agoI think they're getting around it by being a strict torrenting service - i.e. when you add a torrent that is already there, you get one single seed for the entire file, and the person who originally brought it in is liable for sharing it, not put.io
- kelvie 13y agoThat seems like a great idea, but I can't help but think it'll go the way of Mega*. We'll pay for a year+ subscription, and then the feds will raid them.
- steeve 13y agoWell, it was first released in October ;)
- phreeza 13y agoI rigged up Azureus to do this kind of sequential downloading a long time ago once, and it was quite neat, but I didn't share the patch because I reckoned it would be bad for torrent health if everyone started doing this. Isn't that still true, and with Popcorn and this popping up now, isn't it just a question of time before seeders start recognising and penalising sequential downloaders?
- steeve 13y agoYou are right, but there's a lot more to it (time randomization, hot spots which are also the most shared etc..). That's also why the addon is using libtorrent-rasterbar (as opposed to peerflix), and tries very hard to do the right thing as to minimaly hurt the swarm (it does, but it tries to make up for it).
- mikewhy 13y agoDisclaimer: I am the author of the channel. Would like to mention SS Plex[1]. It doesn't use torrents, nor XBMC really, but it allows you to stream and download content to a wider variety of devices. I say "wider variety" because Plex runs on everything XBMC runs on (via PleXBMC), and transcodes files into a format the client supports. [1]: http://mikew.github.io/ss-plex.bundle/ http://mikew.github.io/ss-plex.bundle/
- prawn 13y agoI've recently switched from XBMC on a hacked ATV1 to Plex on a MacMini and been really happy with it so far. Having the Plex app on my Samsung TV and then on iPhone and iPad is a great bonus meaning it's trivial to pick up where I left off. I always thought the "keep watching from a different device" thing was such a gimmick, but I'll go from watching a movie on the TV, then to watching a few minutes more in bed before sleeping then another few minutes over breakfast. If my 18mo old is lazing in bed with us, I can pull up a TV show he likes, give him some headphones and snooze for a bit longer.
- taylorbuley 13y agoFYI, XMBC works great as a media server running on a Raspberry PI
- mrindianteen 13y agoHow is this different from the popcorn time app that was posted here a couple days ago? Any reason this is better?
- NamTaf 13y agoXBMC is probably the biggest media centre software package in the world. It has a huge audience and is incredibly expandible via plug-ins.
- steeve 13y agoDisclaimer: I'm the author Well, apart from the fact that it existed way before, it also serves a different purpose: - Last version has 8 providers (as opposed to 1) - Appart from Win/Mac/Linux, it works on Android and Raspberry Pi - Tailored for TV (because XBMC) - You can send "magnets" to it via Chrome (see FAQ in post) - Leverages a better bittorrent library (enhancing the swarm healthiness)
- Sektor 13y agoWould it be very hard to make this work with MediaPortal? I know that the two packages started out quite similar but have forked rather drastically over time. I only ask because despite trying to change over to XBMC a number of times (almost every major revision) I've never been able to make it do what I need it to do and MePo has a much higher WAF when setup well.
- ossreality 13y ago"a couple days ago" literally shows up underneath this story
- mafro 13y agoAnyone know what the XBMC theme is in those screenshots? It's somewhat more appealing than Confluence..
- dvcc 13y agoLooks like Xperience1080+: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=150116 http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=150116
- tbomb 13y agoMy dreams have come true. (Commenting to save for later)
- spdmn 13y agoI've been using this for 2-3 months already. The fact you can send magnet links from chrome is what sold me on its usefulness. Thank you dev.