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Comment by snippyhollow | Hacker News Reader

XBMC torrent has been out there for a while http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736

It's free software https://github.com/steeve/xbmctorrent and uses libtorrent-rasterbar through https://github.com/steeve/libtorrent-go

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Just in case, I started a new HN thread here[1].

Disclosure: I'm the author.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7379166

Yes, but this one aims for nice interface and simplicity - install and start watching. For people who are not tech savy this app will win.

People who are not tech savvy want to watch movies on a television or a tablet, not a PC.

Even for the tech savvy, the user experience is very important.

RASPMC and a Raspberry Pi. Takes like 3 seconds to get setup and is easier to get going than a DVR. My parents have no issues using XBMC on my Raspberry Pi that I left back home.

Ex-RaspBMC user here. I used it for a while, but honestly, that interface running on the pi's ARM processor is awful.

I know the pi was created to be an educational tool, not a media device, but therein lies the problem.

This is true for the old generation, not true for the not tech savvy new generation that watches movie on laptops, tablets and PCs.

Came to the thread to mention this. It's super cool, although sometimes it drops my seeders to 0 without explanation. And only on my rPi.

Most likely your SD card is full. This can happen on some installs like OpenELEC which don't use the whole SD card.

Even utorrent has the stream feature.

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