Torrent stream for ubuntu

Open testing of Torrent Stream software on Linux / Ubuntu OS has begun!


The world's best software application for streaming / online playback of video and audio content via torrents, now available for Ubuntu users

Detailed information about the Torrent Stream System and the software being released under this project can be found on the website torrentstream.org

Everyone who is already familiar with the features and capabilities of Torrent Stream and wants to take part in
testing or just wants to know what products are currently available
for Linux / Ubuntu, you are welcome under cat.
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The test builds for Torrent Stream for Ubuntu include:

TS Engine - The main software product that provides all the functions and capabilities of the Torrent Stream technology (multimedia streaming control engine)

TS Engine is the basic core of the Torrent Stream platform and can be used, through the API ( TS Engine API ), by any developers to create their own products, integrating the functionality and capabilities of Torrent Stream into them.

TS Player - Multimedia player (modified and improved version of the VLC player), with the ability to play video and audio online, via torrent files, without waiting for content to load.
Comment: Now you can run and play torrents in the desktop player as normal video and audio files, without using different torrent clients and without waiting for downloads. Also, if the user knows the content ID, then it can also be used as a source, specifying it in the corresponding field when specifying the source (Content ID, is essentially an analogue of magnet links, only within the TS system).

The inclusion of the desktop version of the player in the assembly is due to the fact that it is necessary to use the advanced settings of the browser-based web player (running on the basis of TS P2P Multimedia Plug-), since most settings of TS Player are synchronized with it. For example, if you want to use a video accelerator or reassign hotkeys for a web player, the user will need to go into the TS Player settings, set these settings and restart the player page (or better web browser), and the next time you start it, all the new settings will be work and in the web player.

TS P2P Multimedia Plug-in - Browser Plugin (built on the basis of the VLC Plug-in)
Allows you to use the world's most functional web player on all sites using Torrent Stream technology, as well as on popular video hosting sites such as You Tube, etc., and with full support for all content being played with the bittorrent protocol.

Comment: Probably for those who installed and used Flash exclusively for watching videos, this will be a very good alternative, given that in addition also bittorrent will act as an accelerator, ensuring the stability of the stream and the maximum download speed for a custom Internet channel.

Browser extensions:

TS Magic Player - online torrent playback in original quality on any torrent tracker without downloading torrents and without having to wait for content to download. ( Review on Habré )

P2P YouTube - description and review in Habré

Currently such packages are presented (direct links to download packages):

1) TS Engine + TS Player + P2P Multimedia Plug-in

Download for Intel x86 / 32

Download for AMD64

2) TS Engine (clean engine, for those who plan to connect it to other products, such as XBMC, etc.),

Download for Intel x86 / 32

Download for AMD64

Note:

All packages should work on Ubuntu 11 and 12 (x32 / 64). Not yet tested on other systems.

engine is installed in / opt / torrentstream / engine
to run the script is used / opt / torrentstream / engine / tsengine
engine log is written here: /tmp/tsengine.log
all downloads go to the default folder ~ / .Torrent Stream / downloads (optionally can be changed)
After launching the engine, our icon should appear in the upper right corner

Information about bugs please leave on the forum of those. support in the topic We are testing Torrent Stream 1.0.5 software (for Linux / Ubuntu) or send us info, along with logs to tsviewer [at] gmail.com

For testing, with the installed package number 1, you can also additionally use some convenient and functional extensions for web browsers, namely:

TS Magic Player for Windows / Linux (direct links to download test versions)

For Mozilla Firefox

For Google Chrome

For Opera

P2P YouTube (for Windows / Linux)

For Google Chrome (install from the official page of Chrome Market)

For Mozilla Firefox

For Opera (install from the official Opera store page)

Benchmarking test

Preamble: In many publications about the Torrent Stream, theses are often heard, in which there are words or phrases: “the best in the world”; "Has no analogues", etc. To confirm these points or refute, I propose to conduct comparative tests with other torrent clients known to you who have the function of playing videos without waiting for the full file download, since all these points apply to this part of the software.

For the test: Use the test torrent file ( download torrent ) or use your own torrents with high-quality support for http-siding, and compare the pre-buffering time (after how long the video will start playing), and also forward to rewind, to compare the response time during rewind, if it is somewhere else implemented. (HTTP –seeding is necessary for creating and receiving high-quality AVoD service (Audio and Video on Demand) when using torrents, which is exactly what Torrent Stream software is aimed at)

Attention! If the return rate of the http-sid or the total speed of all http-sids is less than the bit rate, then the software will work as usual and you will not feel a significant difference from such support. This restriction will also apply if the speed of your Internet connection is lower than the speed of the bitrate, so choose for testing only the content that your Internet channel can do and which torrents provide high-quality http support.

And yet , do not forget to turn off the option “enable playing of entertainment videos during prebuffering”! (if this option is enabled, you will not be able to do a test of the start-up playback speed, since before the main video trailers for movies will be played)

In addition to the basic test, I recommend using the P2P YouTube extension, which also allows you to visually see the functionality and advantages of Torrent Stream, not only over other torrent clients, but also allows you to do the same comparative test, but in comparison with Flash technology (you will be able to make sure that online video playback via torrents is not inferior to online video playback via Flash, while also adding all the advantages of the bittorrent protocol)

PS I apologize for taking so long with the Linux / Ubuntu software release and thank you for your understanding and patience, and we will be very grateful if you take an active part in testing, and of course we will be grateful for your advice and recommendations.