I actually wanted to work a bit on a torrent client to implement WebTorrent for a native webtorrent client, so that it would be possible to have a peertube client that has the benefits of webtorrent, but is still lighter than a web browser based navigator. I didn’t want to do C++, so I began working on something in Rust. I didn’t have the motivation to continue though.
Maybe this could be used as a base for a full blown hybrid WebTorrent/BitTorrent client.
They just got webtorrent capability merged into libtorrent, the main library used in all desktop torrent clients. Its not yet fully applied tho, but it means that desktop clients could help seed webtorrents.
Yep, I know about that, but webtorrent isn’t the only thing, to have a great peertube native desktop experience, one would need it to bee able to use the client for torrenting for example.
A torrent client would also need to support p2p-media-loader to be able to handle HLS, which live-stream use and many videos are also being encoded in HLS.
Edit: source for the fact that peertube uses p2P-media-loader
