Stream torrents to any media player.
I had been using popcorntime for a while for its torrent streaming abilities but it was very bloated for what I was using it for. It's an Electron app with a built in torrent browser and media player. None of which I needed.
I then found peerflix which is very similar to kookaburra but it's a Javascript/node.js app. I wasn't interested in installing node.js for one simple program.
So kookaburra was born. Written in Go, it's a simple, single binary program to do one thing - stream torrents.
$ go get github.com/kanemathers/kookaburra
kookaburra can be used to stream magnet links or torrent files to any media player capable of viewing network streams.
To stream a movie with its magnet link, use the following command:
$ kookaburra -largest "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f84b51f0d2c3455ab5dabb6643b4340234cd036e"
You can then open http://127.0.0.1:8080 in your media player and the movie
will begin streaming.
If the torrent contains multiple files you can omit the -largest flag to
specify the file you wish to stream. Or, you can pass the -all flag to
create an M3U playlist of all files to stream (useful for TV series or music
albums).
See kookaburra -help for more.