Recently we were talking here on the blog about la integration of WebTorrent support to the libtorrent library and now in slightly more recent news. It became known several days ago the release of version 0.22 of WebTorrent Desktop in which some improvements were integrated to some video and sound formats, as well as the verification of file notification and other things.
For those who are unfamiliar with WebTorrent Desktop should know that this is a torrent client that supports video streaming and allows you to view video and audio content without waiting for its complete download, downloading new data as needed.
WebTorrent Desktop also allows to change the position within the files that have not yet been fully downloaded (changing the position automatically changes the priority in the download blocks). It is possible to connect to both WebTorrent-based browser peers and BitTorrent peers using standard programs like Transmission or uTorrent.
In this, magnet links are supported as well as torrent files, peer detection by DHT (distributed hash table), PEX (peer exchange) and lists of tracking servers. Supports streaming via AirPlay, Chromecast, and DLNA protocols.
What's new in WebTorrent Desktop 0.22?
In this new version of the client highlights by support for multitrack audio, as well as the improved codec detection.
We can also find improvements in the file verification notification and also improvements for the support for MPEG-Layer-2 formats, Musepack, Matroska (sound) and WavePack.
Regarding the version for Linux in this new presentation started publishing rpm packages for Linux and compilation for the arm64 architecture.
WebTorrent Desktop 0.22 is based on the Electron 9 platform, but after that the 0.23 update was already released, in which the transition to using the trial version of the Electron 10 platform was made and only a security bug was fixed.
Finally if you are interested in knowing more about it, you can check the following link
How to install WebTorrent Desktop on Linux?
If you want to install this application on your system, you must follow the instructions that we share below according to the Linux distribution you are using.
In the case of those who are users of Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint or any distribution derived from these.
You can download the package corresponding to your system architecture.
If they are users of 64-bit systems should download the following package with:
wget https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop/releases/download/v0.23.0/webtorrent-desktop_0.23.0_amd64.deb
While for those who are ARM system users download:
wget https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop/releases/download/v0.23.0/webtorrent-desktop_0.23.0_arm64.deb
To install the downloaded package, just run:
sudo dpkg -i webtorrent*.deb
If they are Arch Linux and derivative users can install the application from AUR with the following command:
aurman -S webtorrent-desktop
For all other 64-bit Linux distributions can download the zip file with:
wget hhttps://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop/releases/download/v0.23.0/WebTorrent-v0.23.0-linux-x64.zip
Y for 32-bit systems:
wget https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop/releases/download/v0.23.0/WebTorrent-v0.23.0-linux-x64.zip
Solo They must unzip the folder and execute the file that is inside the folder:
./WebTorrent
How to use WebTorrent Desktop?
Basically alone it is enough to open the application in the system and with the help of a torrent file that you find in the network, you must add to the program or just copy and paste a magnet link and in a matter of seconds the application will allow you to view the torrent file, if it is a multimedia file.
The fairly basic built-in player, but it has all the necessary controls to navigate within a video. This is where WebTorrent Desktop excels.
Even without the entire video file being downloaded it is possible to jump from one side of the timelineWith the DMT, it will look for the corresponding pieces of the demand file for reproduction almost instantaneously.
This jumps into the last minutes of a movie or sporting event, for example. (Of course, all this depends almost on your connection to the network).