This adds support for calls like: peerflix "ef330b39f4801d25b4245212e75a38634bfc856e" --vlc for when you don't have a magnet or torrent link and you're too lazy to convert the hash to a magnet link yourself.

How about making a browser NPAPI plugin based on Peerflix and Firebreath (not sure if it supports node.js)? There aren't any working / stable solutions out there for a plugin that simply plays torrents (except Ace Stream, but they are closed source and do black hat marketing on your PC).

As long as the plugin will be open source and reliable, I can really see this having a place in the online world. I remember Ninja Video (website) that made their own streaming plugin and they had more then 1 million unique visitors daily, so visitors installing a plugin for something like this seems ok to me.

It could come bundled with WebChimera Plugin (which is highly customizable) for video format support and I could make a fork of WebChimera Player to also fetch subtitles from the OpenSubtitles API. It would practically be a "Popcorn Time" plugin for websites, and I'm sure a lot of web developers would have fun playing with something like this.

I know this is what Feross plans on doing without plugins and that should be the proper course of things knowing that NPAPI support will be ended in late 2015 by Chrome (and maybe FireFox).

But bringing Peerflix to websites with a browser plugin might be the best way to also start seeding through WebRTC and help WebTorrent grow into the future pluginless implementation of this concept. :)

When running peerflix with --vlc, it streams and doesn't open the file. There might be some pros for that, but when having subtitles, they are not able to recognize when it started. Seeking in a video messes up subtitles. However, when opening the file from tmp folder, VLC is able to run it just fine and the subtitles are displayed correctly even when seeking. I don't see any negative effect on opening a video file instead of streaming it.

Is there any way to stream torrent directly from chrome ? Like we can do with firefox by selecting "Open with Torrent Video Player" A plugin for example

Hi guys ! :smiley: I have just installed peerflix with nodejs and npm. The problem is when I type the basic command to use with vlc, I get this error : ------------------- C:\Users\sjboy>peerflix "C:\Users\sjboy\Downloads\J'irai.dormir.chez.vous-S06E02-Uruguay-09.07.2015.torrent" --vlc C:\Users\sjboy\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\peerflix\app.js:223 var vlcPath = key['InstallDir'].value + path.sep + 'vlc' ^ TypeError: Cannot read property 'value' of undefined at Server. (C:\Users\sjboy\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\peerflix\app.js:223:40) at Server.emit (events.js:104:17) at net.js:1171:12 at process._tickCallback (node.js:355:11) -------------------

So, I ask you to help me to fix this problem. Thanks !

@mpc-hc is one of the windows media players. It has support for loading streams and files ofc. Shouldn't be too hard to add support for it.

Thanks in advance.

Hello, I am not big professional in linux, but sometime I'm using it and even do some tests. So, I have a router Linksys EA6900, with pretty powerful CPU and hardware, and I have TV with Smart TV that can read any DLNA stream. My plan is somehow to transform Torrent stream into IPTV (with peerflix of course), but I have several issues:

• how install it on debian (I have some kind of debian on my router - wheezy), on my architecture - ARMv7 ?
• how to convert output of streaming into IPTV ?

Thank you so much for your hard work!

First of all thank you very much for your open source project. I downloaded it and run npm install -g peerflix but I got some error messages. I use node and npm from Ubuntu repositories. Do I need latest versions of it? Which extra packages do I need to install? Regards

error installing [email protected]

npm ERR! Error: No compatible version found: mime@'^1.2.11' npm ERR! Valid install targets: npm ERR! ["1.0.0","1.1.0","1.2.1","1.2.2","1.2.3","1.2.4","1.2.5","1.2.6","1.2.7","1.2.8","1.2.9","1.2.10","1.2.11"]

Hi,

I'd like to possibly use the url that is emitted from peerflix to stream video in the browser. I'm wondering what the best way to do this might be? Also, do I need to always have the vlc flag on in order to get the url?

Thanks.

i'd like to be able to pass peerflix a magnet uri. i'm currently wrestling with trying to generate a .torrent file from a magnet link, then pass it to peerflix, but am struggling to get it right.

any sign of magnet support in the future?

now you can see the remaining time for torrent download. And also you can also see how many percentage of files you have downloaded, which files are downloaded and which ones are left to do. Also I fixed the bug concerning the download for example the command : peerflix "torrent.torrent" --list When you click on ctrl+c it is impossible to stop the script.

I'm running the command:

peerflix "magner_uri..." -a --vlc

and getting the error:

node:internal/validators:216
    throw new ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT(name, port, allowZero);
    ^

RangeError [ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT]: Port should be > 0 and < 65536. Received 69692710.
    at new NodeError (node:internal/errors:371:5)
    at validatePort (node:internal/validators:216:11)
    at Socket.send (node:dgram:629:12)
    at send (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/peerflix/node_modules/bittorrent-tracker/lib/client/udp-tracker.js:186:12)
    at UDPTracker._request (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/peerflix/node_modules/bittorrent-tracker/lib/client/udp-tracker.js:92:3)
    at UDPTracker.announce (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/peerflix/node_modules/bittorrent-tracker/lib/client/udp-tracker.js:38:8)
    at /opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/peerflix/node_modules/bittorrent-tracker/client.js:230:13
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at Client._announce (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/peerflix/node_modules/bittorrent-tracker/client.js:228:18)
    at Client.start (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/peerflix/node_modules/bittorrent-tracker/client.js:166:8) {
  code: 'ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT'
}

Node.js v17.0.1

Environment:

• Arm Based M1-MacBook Air
• Node v17.0.1
• Shell: Fish

Hope this helps, I'm unable to debug the problem

Love Peerflix! So good!

One minor issue is that it seems to force VLC to be always on top, despite the setting being disabled in prefs. Is there a workaround this?

I came up with a Keyboard Maestro macro that waits for the file size to be big enough to play and then manually opens the file in VLC. This stops VLC from being weird, but it would be great if this wasn't necessary.

Thanks!

Can peerflix add support for VLC flatpak? Or can someone tell me how I can alter existing code to make peerflix check for VLC flatpak when using the --vlc flag?

When i try to reproduce a movie from peerflix the sound of the movie is unreal.

I'm using mpv like media player.

sudo peerflix "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:AC3B06A392EDD155A77DD39F302A056D0CD6E51B&dn=Ex.Machina.2015.720p.BluRay.x264.LLG&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=UDP%3A%2F%2FTRACKER.LEECHERS-PARADISE.ORG%3A6969%2FANNOUNCE&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.zer0day.to%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fcoppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce" --mpv

Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.84-1 (2021-12-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux mpv 0.32.0