blog/data/2018-12-12-vlc-bittorrent.txt

   1 Title: Non-blocking bittorrent plugin for vlc
   2 Tags: english, video, verkidetfri
   3 Date: 2018-12-12 07:20
   4 Publish: 2018-12-12 07:00
   5
   6 <p>A few hours ago, a new and improved version (2.4) of
   7 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent">the VLC
   8 bittorrent plugin</a> was uploaded to Debian.  This new version
   9 include a complete rewrite of the bittorrent related code, which seem
  10 to make the plugin non-blocking.  This mean you can actually exit VLC
  11 even when the plugin seem to be unable to get the bittorrent streaming
  12 started.  The new version also include support for filtering playlist
  13 by file extension using command line options, if you want to avoid
  14 processing audio, video or images.  The package is currently in Debian
  15 unstable, but should be available in Debian testing in two days.  To
  16 test it, simply install it like this:</p>
  17
  18 <p><pre>
  19 apt install vlc-plugin-bittorrent
  20 </pre></p>
  21
  22 <p>After it is installed, you can try to use it to play a file
  23 downloaded live via bittorrent like this:
  24
  25 <p><pre>
  26 vlc https://archive.org/download/Glass_201703/Glass_201703_archive.torrent
  27 </pre></p>
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