pure browser based popcorn time alternative

[kof]

Do you think its hard to do? What are the issues we would have to solve?

[gauravsaini]

I think people are already trying it before as well . There is a popcorn time build based on webtorrent.js
But it is not allowed to discuss this over here.

[kof]

any links?

[ericwooley]

The real issue you are getting at is sharing data between the non-webrtc torrent network and the webrtc (webtorrent) clients. You need some kind of bridge, which is what webtorrent hybrid is about.

[kof]

Right, they are using different data protocols ...

[kof]

We should actually make popcorn...e use webtorrent in parallel to allow both. Maybe someone has connections to those guys? They have closed a forum, not every one can write there.

[ericwooley]

I would probably stop talking about popcorn time specifically here, I doubt webtorrent wants to be associated with pirating.

The other thing to think about is how webtorrent users will rarely be good seeders, they will leach for a while and bail. You would need to convince services that there is a benefit to a browser version, because it will drain their other users.

It might be a good idea for some kind of browser extension that provides a global version of webtorrent, which individual pages should check for before creating their own client, so that the instance can span pages and be a better citizen for seeding. If this were to pick up, pages that use webtorrent can advertise the extensions which would offer better persistance etc...

[kof]

webtorrent users will rarely be good seeders

why?

[feross]

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