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  10                 <title>VLC bittorrent plugin still going strong, new upload 2.14-4</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2023 10:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The other day I uploaded a new version of
  15 &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent&quot;&gt;the VLC
  16 bittorrent plugin&lt;/a&gt; to Debian, version 2.14-4, to fix a few
  17 packaging issues.  This plugin extend VLC allowing it to stream videos
  18 directly from a bittorrent source using both torrent files and magnet
  19 links, as easy as using a HTTP or local file source.  I believe such
  20 protocol support is a vital feature in VLC, allowing efficient
  21 streaming from sources such at the 11 million movies in
  22 &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/&quot;&gt;the Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt;.  Bittorrent is
  23 one of the most efficient content distribution protocols on the
  24 Internet, without centralised control, and should be used more.&lt;/p&gt;
  25
  26 &lt;p&gt;The new version is now both in Debian Unstable and Testing, as well
  27 as Ubuntu.  While looking after the package, I decided to ask the VLC
  28 upstream community if there was any hope to get Bittorrent support
  29 into the official VLC program, and was very happy to learn that
  30 someone is already working on it.  I hope we can see some fruits of
  31 that labour next year, but do not hold my breath.  In the mean time we
  32 can use the plugin, which is already
  33 &lt;a href=&quot;https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=vlc-plugin-bittorrent&quot;&gt;installed
  34 by 0.23 percent of the Debian population&lt;/a&gt; according to
  35 popularity-contest.  It could use a new upstream release, and I hope
  36 the upstream developer soon find time to polish it even more.&lt;/p&gt;
  37
  38 &lt;p&gt;It is worth noting that the plugin store the downloaded files in
  39 &lt;tt&gt;~/Downloads/vlc-bittorrent/&lt;/tt&gt;, which can quickly fill up the
  40 user home directory during use.  Users of the plugin should keep an
  41 eye with disk usage when streaming a bittorrent source.&lt;/p&gt;
  42
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