BitTorrent Apps with JavaScript
summary
Shows a Chrome-extension prototype that uses torrent-stream and WebTorrent together with video.js to stream video while downloading from magnet links, connecting to either a local torrent daemon or an in‑browser client. Demonstrates HD playback and subtitle extraction, lists the concrete tools and implementation choices, and notes the build works in early tests but depends on an unmaintained library so stability is flaky and the live demo fails.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:57BitTorrent protocol
- 6:12How BitTorrent works
- 10:48File exchange visualization
- 15:23BitTorrent optimizations
- 18:28Personal experience
- 21:39Chrome extension
- 25:10BitTorrent projects
- 27:17Live demo
- 29:06Advanced resources
- 31:55Spanish projects
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