Feross Aboukhadijeh

@dcposch has done some exploration of getting webrtc support into libtorrent. It looks like it'll be doable!

FYI, [Brave Browser](https://brave.com/) just added WebTorrent support! Press: https://torrentfreak.com/brave-a-privacy-focused-browser-with-built-in-torrent-streaming-170219/

> Is this dead? No.

> how about instead of using streams use something like an async iterator/generator Possible problems with this are – how to represent a writable stream? a transform stream? How do...

@dcposch We ought to do both IMO

This issue is improved by https://github.com/webtorrent/bittorrent-protocol/pull/52 which seems to fix an issue where 25% of the CPU time was spent repeatedly calling `clearTimeout` and `setTimeout`.

@jman6495 Yeah, you should be able to download just fine without UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding. They're just useful if you want people to be able to make _incoming connections_...

@roccomuso Yeah, and someone needs to do the work of integrating it.

No, sorry. I haven't done an exhaustive search of npm. Ideally, something with no or few dependencies. And definitely no native dependencies.

@roccomuso That looks fine, but the dependencies are a bit heavyweight. `xml2js`, `async`, `request` are all substantial dependencies by `webtorrent`'s lightweight standards. But it's probably fine to use this for...