A Smart TV application to stream movies using BitTorrent. (Yes it actually streams them in order even though it's BitTorrent)
Tv.js used iTunes' API to find movies, isoHunt to search torrents and BitTorrent to downloading/stream movies.
It runs as a server which can run on a Raspberry Pi and the UI can be controlled from a smartphone (no need of keyboard or mouse).
Tv.js is the result of a 24h personal hackathon (7th of July 2013) by Aaron O'Mullan (@AaronO) and me (@SamyPesse).
It's designed to run on a TV screen (through HDMI), but works just as well on a laptop. (it's entirely usuable with keyboard controls alone)
You can see a video of it working here on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j71NCZnLffg
Downloading copyrighted material through torrents may be illegal in your country.
To build and run the app, you'll need :
node
rake
ffmpeg
To build and run the all :
rake install
rake
And go to https://localhost:8888 on your browser
Or simply run the server without rebuilding the client with :
rake run
This application has been built and designed to run on a TV screen using a Raspberry Pi.
Raspbian OS – a Debian distro specially made for the rPi
NodeJs
tv.js
ffmpeg
Chromium Browser
Follow this tutorial to install Raspbian and Node Js on your Raspberry Pi
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
export DISPLAY=:0.0
git clone https://github.com/SamyPesse/tv.js.git && cd tv.js
rake install
rake build
rake run
chromium --kiosk https://localhost:8888
tv.js needs ffmpeg to convert the videos to ogv, make sure you have ffmpeg installed with the necessary codecs.
brew install ffmpeg --with-fdk-aac --with-ffplay --with-freetype --with-frei0r --with-libass --with-libvo-aacenc --with-libvorbis --with-libvpx --with-opencore-amr --with-openjpeg --with-opus --with-rtmpdump --with-schroedinger --with-speex --with-theora --with-tools
- Use IMBD or another API with a bigger movie collection that Itunes'
- Cache converted videos
- Improve overall stability
- Improve torrent picking algorithm (by seeds/leechers, size, votes, video format ...)
- Package using NodeWebkit for Windows/Mac/Linux/Raspberry PI
- Add other awesone stuff !
There are obvious legal issues, with downloading copyrighted material you do not have a license for. We do not endorse such use cases and bare no responsability for the use people make of it.