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peerflix

peerflix

Streaming torrent client for Node.js

npm install -g peerflix

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Usage

Peerflix can be used with a magnet link or a torrent file. To stream a video with its magnet link use the following command.

peerflix "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ef330b39f4801d25b4245212e75a38634bfc856e" --vlc

Remember to put " around your magnet link since they usually contain &. peerflix will print a terminal interface. The first line contains an address to a http server. The --vlc flag ensures vlc is opened when the torrent is ready to stream.

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To stream music with a torrent file use the following command.

peerflix "http://some-torrent/music.torrent" -a --vlc

The -a flag ensures that all files in the music repository are played with vlc. Otherwise if the torrent contains multiple files, peerflix will choose the biggest one. To get a full list of available options run peerflix with the help flag.

peerflix --help

Examples of usage of could be

peerflix magnet-link --list # Select from a list of files to download
peerflix magnet-link --vlc -- --fullscreen # will pass --fullscreen to vlc
peerflix magnet-link --mplayer --subtitles subtitle-file.srt # play in mplayer with subtitles
peerflix magnet-link --connection 200 # set max connection to 200

Programmatic usage

If you want to build your own app using streaming bittorent in Node you should checkout torrent-stream

Chromebook users

Chromebooks are set to refuse all incoming connections by default - to change this:

sudo iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT

Chromecast

If you wanna use peerflix on your chromecast checkout peercast or castnow

License

MIT

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Dependencies (16)

airplayer, clivas, inquirer, keypress, mime, network-address, numeral, open, optimist, parse-torrent, pump, range-parser, rc, torrent-stream, windows-no-runnable, xtend

Dependents (29)

castnow, show-time, kickflix, torrent-worker, peerflix-web, simple-peerflix-server, piratestream, torrent-streamer, katflix, vlc-streamer, butter, moviepi, ezflix, peercast, morrent, torrentcast, cinebeam, torrent-bot, torrent-pi, movees, torrentcast-player, torrent-flix, pochoclo, playify, stdflix, blackpearl, moov, cli-flix, and more