It’s possible to play torrents directly in SMPlayer, no need to download the torrent first!
You need to install peerflix. This is a video streaming BitTorrent client. It starts to download the torrent (to a temp folder) and streams the video. Then SMPlayer (or any other player) can play the stream.
You can install peerflix in Ubuntu with these commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo npm install -g peerflixNow to play a movie with SMPlayer run this command:
peerflix http://some-torrent/movie.torrent -g -dFor more info about the command line options type:
peerflix --help
More info about peerflix and how to use it with other players:
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/peerflix-stream-torrents-with-vlc-or.html
Hey, when i type – sudo npm install -g peerflix i get “sudo: npm: command not found”
Do it without “sudo”, just “npm install -g peerflix”
it is really good topic, and helped a lot.
a guide for archlinux users if needed;
1- yaourt -S peerflix [tmp dosyasina atiyor]
2- sudo peerflix http://some-torrent/movie.torrent -g -d
u need to use yaourt because pacman doesnt works as i think its not on grub. if someone know can describe why yaourt is more like covers than pacman, i mean i know that after using yaourt there is oacman inside it but some packages cant be installed by pacman directly, why?