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Postedabout 1 month ago
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The latter is not hosted by you, but by all users participating the swarm. The first page for "bitternt stream online" (sic) keywords in your favorite search engine should should give some ideas about that (I use ecosia now, which gives at least usable results for this).
The goal is for visitors to visit my website read about the video in question, click on the video and get it streamed to their web browser from the torrent itself without a local BitTorrent client.
Can't I just keep the seed up myself for distribution if nobody else enters the swarm?
> To seed files to web peers, use a client that supports WebTorrent, e.g. WebTorrent Desktop, a desktop client with a familiar UI that can connect to web peers, webtorrent-hybrid, a command line program, or Instant.io, a website. Established torrent clients like Vuze have already added WebTorrent support so they can connect to both normal and web peers. We hope other clients will follow.
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