WebTorrent is a new tech which enables streaming of video using torrents. It
is Free software:
https://webtorrent.io
(MIT Licence)
There is a dedicated WebTorrent client, which I hope will be the default in a
Trisquel installation, instead of Transmission, which does not support
WebTorrent, at the moment.
WebTorrent is currently in widespread use. (For example, there is a Youtube
alternative which uses WebTorrents, bitchute. Unfortunately, this uses
Cloudflare as a CDN (content delivery network). But the site is an example of
WebTorrents in action.
https://bitchute.com
You can using the client easily create a webtorrent .torrent file or a magnet
link and start sharing your video. The more people who watch it, the faster
the downloads are.
Please try it yourself.
If you are creating video content, or wish to convert video to a Freedom
friendly format, please consider using the following parameters:
Video Codec: VP8, VP9, or (soon available) AV1
Audio Codec: Vorbis or (now available) Opus
File Container: WebM (It streams well in WebTorrent/HTML and is Free, a
subset of Matroska .MKV)
