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Support steaming local files

Open ranile opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

I have media files locally stored and I would like to watch them together with others. Can multiplex do that? I would rather use the files I already downloaded than download the torrent again.

ranile avatar Sep 06 '23 13:09 ranile

That's definitely a very interesting usecase! Its def. something that should be possible, but will require a few changes to how it works. We already create a weron connection, so we could absolutely use that to stream the local media file. If you want to get this working right now though - you can just seed your files using a Torrent client like qBittorent (see a tutorial here: https://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Torrent), copy the magnet link, then share it with your friends and watch the local file together with them like usual :)

pojntfx avatar Sep 07 '23 11:09 pojntfx