storrent
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An implementation of the BitTorrent protocol that is optimised for streaming media.
Storrent
Storrent is a BitTorrent implementation that is optimised for streaming media: it allows you to watch a movie or to listen to music from a Torrent without downloading it entirely.
Storrent works entirely in RAM: except for the DHT bootstrap database, it will never write anything to disk. It requires a fair amount of memory (1GB will do, 4GB is better).
Installation
git clone https://github.com/jech/storrent
cd storrent
CGO_ENABLED=1 go build
This will yield a binary called storrent
or storrent.exe
.
Running
./storrent &
Now go to
http://localhost:8088
and add a magnet link or a link to a torrent file. Wait a few seconds, then hit reload; you should see a link to a playlist which you may download and feed to your favourite media player.
Command-line options
storrent -help
By default, storrent takes 1/2 of the total RAM on your machine. You may
tune this with the -mem
command-line flag:
storrent -mem $((4 * 1024 * 1024)) &
By default, storrent attempts to open ports in your NAT box or firewall
using NAT-PMP, or, failing that, uPNP. You may disable port mapping with
the -portmap
flag:
storrent -portmap=off
I usually run storrent in a slightly more paranoid mode than the default:
storrent -force-encryption -dht-passive
For privacy reasons, storrent doesn't use trackers or webseeds by default; you may enable them on a torrent-by-torrent basis in the user interface. Should you wish to override the default, do:
storrent -use-trackers -use-webseeds
Author
Juliusz Chroboczek https://www.irif.fr/~jch/