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[–] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I would recommend against a new player when existing scriptable ones like vlc and mpv already exist.

Instead what I would do is a plugin for either, eventually repackaged as its own player (if somehow installing the script itself is too much for some) for which the script would

  • include a very small torrent client
  • point that client to the torrent (which AFAICT is still not public, so for now a reconfigurable URL)
  • include a search function that when it fails, proposes to search within the trimmed cleaned torrent metadata then does the torrent download then plays.
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