VLC BitTorrent Plugin Streams Video Torrents Without Waiting For The Complete Download
In Summary : Want to stream video torrent files with VLC media player without having to download the complete torrent and only then start ...
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In Summary :
Want to stream video torrent files with VLC media player without having to download the complete torrent and only then start playing it? There's a VLC plugin, called vlc-bittorrent, that's able to do just that, which was added to the Debian repositories about a month ago.
The VLC BitTorrent plugin supports both .torrent files and magnet links, and it's developed for Linux. The developer says the plugin may work on Windows or macOS, but it was not tested.
Petter Reinholdtsen, the Debian maintainer of the VLC BitTorrent plugin package, says that since the package was first uploaded in Debian, it was improved, and the package now allows opening VLC (and start streaming) when the user clicks on torrent files or magnet links in browsers like Firefox or Chromium.
On my Ubuntu 18.10 system, this clicking on .torrent files in web browsers to stream using VLC works... to some extent. In Firefox I had to select "VLC media player (bittorrent)" when asked what application I'd like to use to open .torrent files, while in Chromium the .torrent file is downloaded and not opened with VLC when clicked (but clicking on the downloaded file from the Chromium download statusbar opens VLC and starts streaming the video). I did not try this with magnet links. [...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/10/vlc-bittorrent-plugin-streams-video.html
Want to stream video torrent files with VLC media player without having to download the complete torrent and only then start playing it? There's a VLC plugin, called vlc-bittorrent, that's able to do just that, which was added to the Debian repositories about a month ago.
The VLC BitTorrent plugin supports both .torrent files and magnet links, and it's developed for Linux. The developer says the plugin may work on Windows or macOS, but it was not tested.
Petter Reinholdtsen, the Debian maintainer of the VLC BitTorrent plugin package, says that since the package was first uploaded in Debian, it was improved, and the package now allows opening VLC (and start streaming) when the user clicks on torrent files or magnet links in browsers like Firefox or Chromium.
On my Ubuntu 18.10 system, this clicking on .torrent files in web browsers to stream using VLC works... to some extent. In Firefox I had to select "VLC media player (bittorrent)" when asked what application I'd like to use to open .torrent files, while in Chromium the .torrent file is downloaded and not opened with VLC when clicked (but clicking on the downloaded file from the Chromium download statusbar opens VLC and starts streaming the video). I did not try this with magnet links. [...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/10/vlc-bittorrent-plugin-streams-video.html
