With BTFS, you can mount any .torrent file or magnet link and then use it as any read-only directory in your file tree. The contents of the files will be downloaded on-demand as they are read by applications. Tools like ls, cat and cp works as expected. Applications like vlc and mplayer can also work without changes.
$ mkdir mnt
$ btfs video.torrent mnt
$ cd mnt
$ vlc video.mp4
To unmount and shutdown:
$ fusermount -u mnt
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:johang/btfs
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install btfs
$ sudo pacman -S btfs
- fuse ("fuse" in Debian/Ubuntu)
- libtorrent ("libtorrent-rasterbar7" in Debian/Ubuntu)
- libcurl ("libcurl3" in Debian/Ubuntu)
$ sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libfuse-dev libtorrent-rasterbar-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
$ git clone https://github.com/johang/btfs.git btfs
$ cd btfs
$ autoreconf -i
$ ./configure
$ make
And optionally, if you want to install it:
$ sudo make install