Multiplex, an app to watch torrents together. It provides an experience similar to Apple’s SharePlay and Amazon’s Prime Video Watch Party, except for any torrent instead of a specific streaming service. Thanks to WebRTC, it doesn’t require a server to sync playback, and can use a gateway if a viewer can’t use BitTorrent. It’s written in Go for GNOME; check it out on GitHub https://github.com/pojntfx/multiplex
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Is this the same as Plex’s ‘watch together’ feature?
I hope this gets ported to Windows. I use Linux, but many of my friends don’t and won’t.
WSL?
Same
Could anyone tell me about how torrent streaming works? Is it just the file being downloaded to a server and streamed to a bunch of viewers, or something else?
I use WebTorrent / WebTorrent-CLI and it basically streams/partially downloads the torrent and plays in your player of choice.
Not sure about this other option here.
Hmm, I wonder if this could be aadapted to a Stremio plugin.
Don’t we already have Peario?
I didn’t know that we did, but yes, apparently! lol :O
That is awesome.
I have not been able to check it out myself, so if you do please share the experience :D
I was just about to ask this.
@Jacoolh Absolutely! The underlying protocol is just JSON over WebRTC, based on this library I wrote: https://github.com/pojntfx/weron
:)
Check this
What protocol does hTorrent use to communicare with BitTorrent peers? Webtorrent uses WebRtc which is incompatible with most torrent clients today
This seems like a cool project, I’ll have to try it out!
Is it in the aur
