Popcorn-desktop: WebTorrent Engine

[team-pct]

Looking to Migrate Peerflix to Webtorrent engine

[VitorVRS]

I'll take a look on this engine.
Are you already developing something about it?

[G-Ray]

What are the advantages of webtorrent over peerflix ?

[team-pct]

Hello, we did not start yet ,
Avantages ? : a faster metadata fetching
more peer discovery
well maintained

[VitorVRS]

I want to know if this enhancement is still valid, since there are some butter branches (to merge?).
Or submit this feature to butter instead PCT and sync the repos later?

I would like to discuss this better and other issues too.

[VitorVRS]

@team-pct I have this enhancement 80% done, there are some test cases in order to avoid some specific issues?

[VitorVRS]

First implementation: https://github.com/VitorVRS/popcorn-desktop/tree/feature/webtorrent

At this moment, i'm able to reproduce any show or pasted/dragged torrent.
Could not test on movies since provider changes.

Todo:

• [x] Introduce WebTorrent
• [x] Subtitles compatibility
• [x] Drag/drop and paste torrent compatibility
• [ ] Stream Info view (show ratio infos)
• [ ] Clean peerflix from other sources
• [ ] Implement Preload (?)
• [ ] Seeding (?)
• [ ] Refactoring

Tested devices:

• [x] Local
• [x] VLC
• [x] MPC HC
• [ ] Chromecast
• [ ] AirPlay (?)