How to launch external media player to play torrent stream?

[tsoernes]

Is it possible to play the torrent file in an external media player as it is being streamed? How?

var WebTorrent = require('webtorrent')

var client = new WebTorrent()
var magnetUri = '...'

client.add(magnetUri, function (torrent) {
  torrent.files.forEach(function (file) {
       // play file with vlc or mpc-hc
  })
})

Thanks

[DiegoRBaquero]

You can use the command line version for that. https://github.com/feross/webtorrent#as-a-command-line-app

[tsoernes]

That won't do, unless it is possible to use command line args from inside a node js module?

[DiegoRBaquero]

Why not? If I may ask. And no, at least not for webtorrent.

On Nov 1, 2015, at 4:05 PM, tsoernes notifications@github.com wrote:

That won't do, unless it is possible to use command line args from inside a node js module?

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[tsoernes]

I get the magnet link from a web scraper written in nodejs

[gillesdemey]

You can use the torrent.createServer function to create an HTTP server that serves the torrent's contents.

https://github.com/feross/webtorrent#torrentcreateserveropts

[DiegoRBaquero]

Have you looked at https://github.com/mafintosh/playback ? It has WT support

[tsoernes]

@gillesdemey Thanks, just what I needed.
@DiegoRBaquero Looks cool but it does not support the formats/codecs I need to play

Solved

[feross]

Awesome – glad your issue was solved.

Thanks @gillesdemey and @DiegoRBaquero!