Put it all together and WebTorrent is a well-designed package, ideal for torrent novices, and anyone else who’d like to see streaming done properly.

There’s even support for streaming media to AirPlay, Chromecast, and DLNA, apparently, although we didn’t test this. Support for tracker servers, DHT, peer exchange and WebTorrent helps the program find and connect to peers. If you seek to a part of the movie which hasn’t downloaded yet, WebTorrent simply reprioritizes to read from that point.Īdding your own torrents is as simple as dragging and dropping a. Playback was smooth for us, but if your network or torrent peers aren’t delivering the speed you need, hitting Pause may give them time to catch up (and there’s a Download button for viewing later, if all else fails).

We clicked Play, a player window appeared, and the movie began streaming in under 5 seconds.Ī progress indicator shows which parts of the movie have downloaded so far. The well-designed interface couldn’t be much easier to use

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