WebTorrent Desktop 0.18.0 recently released, is a free, open source streaming torrent application for Mac, Windows, and Linux. With WebTorrent Desktop, you can watch video from the Internet Archive, listen to music from Creative Commons, or audiobooks from Librivox.
WebTorrent Desktop Features
- Lightweight, fast torrent app
- Beautiful user experience
- Free, non-commercial, ad-free, and open source
- Instantly stream video and audio
- WebTorrent fetches file pieces from the network on demand for instant playback.
- Even when the file isn’t fully downloaded, seeking still works.
(Seeking just reprioritizes which pieces are fetched from the network.)
- Stream videos to AirPlay, Chromecast, and DLNA
- Based on the most popular and comprehensive torrent package in Node.js, webtorrent
- Full-featured, but bloat free
- Opens magnet links and .torrent files
- Drag-and-drop makes adding or creating torrents easy
- Discovers peers via tracker servers, DHT (Distributed Hash Table), and peer exchange
- Supports the WebTorrent protocol for connecting to WebRTC peers (i.e. web browsers)
WebTorrent Desktop 0.18.0 Changelog
Added
- Add a new “Transfers” menu for pausing or resuming all torrents
Changed
- Update Electron to 1.4.15
- Windows 32-bit: App can use 4GB of memory instead of just 2GB
- Fix “Portable App” writing crash reports to “%APPDATA%Temp” (Windows)
- Updated WebTorrent engine to 0.98.5
- Fix issue where http web seeds would sometimes stall
- Don’t send ‘completed’ event to tracker again if torrent is already complete
- Add more peer ID entropy
- Set user-agent header for tracker http requests
Fixed
- Fix paste shortcut in tracker list on Create Torrent page
- Auto-focus the ‘OK’ button in modal dialogs
- Fix formatting issue in the speed stats on the Player page
How to install WebTorrent Desktop 0.18.0 on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04
32bit OS
sudo apt-get install gdebi wget https://github.com/feross/webtorrent-desktop/releases/download/v0.18.0/webtorrent-desktop_0.18.0-1_i386.deb sudo gdebi webtorrent-desktop_0.18.0-1_i386.deb
64bit OS
sudo apt-get install gdebi wget https://github.com/feross/webtorrent-desktop/releases/download/v0.18.0/webtorrent-desktop_0.18.0-1_amd64.deb sudo gdebi webtorrent-desktop_0.18.0-1_amd64.deb
How to uninstall WebTorrent Desktop from Ubuntu
sudo apt-get remove webtorrent-desktop
ONET IDC thành lập vào năm 2012, là công ty chuyên nghiệp tại Việt Nam trong lĩnh vực cung cấp dịch vụ Hosting, VPS, máy chủ vật lý, dịch vụ Firewall Anti DDoS, SSL… Với 10 năm xây dựng và phát triển, ứng dụng nhiều công nghệ hiện đại, ONET IDC đã giúp hàng ngàn khách hàng tin tưởng lựa chọn, mang lại sự ổn định tuyệt đối cho website của khách hàng để thúc đẩy việc kinh doanh đạt được hiệu quả và thành công.
