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+               <title>VLC in Debian now can do bittorrent streaming</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/VLC_in_Debian_now_can_do_bittorrent_streaming.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/VLC_in_Debian_now_can_do_bittorrent_streaming.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2018 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Back in February, I got curious to see
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_VLC_to_stream_bittorrent_sources.html&quot;&gt;if
+VLC now supported Bittorrent streaming&lt;/a&gt;.  It did not, despite the
+fact that the idea and code to handle such streaming had been floating
+around for years.  I did however find
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent&quot;&gt;a standalone plugin
+for VLC&lt;/a&gt; to do it, and half a year later I decided to wrap up the
+plugin and get it into Debian.  I uploaded it to NEW a few days ago,
+and am very happy to report that it
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent&quot;&gt;entered
+Debian&lt;/a&gt; a few hours ago, and should be available in Debian/Unstable
+tomorrow, and Debian/Testing in a few days.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;With the vlc-plugin-bittorrent package installed you should be able
+to stream videos using a simple call to&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+vlc https://archive.org/download/TheGoat/TheGoat_archive.torrent
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;/p&gt;It can handle magnet links too.  Now if only native vlc had
+bittorrent support.  Then a lot more would be helping each other to
+share public domain and creative commons movies.  The plugin need some
+stability work with seeking and picking the right file in a torrent
+with many files, but is already usable.  Please note that the plugin
+is not removing downloaded files when vlc is stopped, so it can fill
+up your disk if you are not careful.  Have fun. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I would love to get help maintaining this package.  Get in touch if
+you are interested.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
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                <title>Using the Kodi API to play Youtube videos</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_the_Kodi_API_to_play_Youtube_videos.html</link>