bitcast

Stream video from BitTorrent and cast directly to DLNA/Upnp media renders (Smart TV)

Query your local network for DLNA media renderers and have them play media

API (and code) based on:

• dlnacasts - https://github.com/grunjol/dlnacasts
• mafintosh/chromecasts for DLNA

git clone https://github.com/fijiwebdesign/bitcast.git

Usage

CLI

node cast.js [magnet or url]

Node.js

Current Node.js API is that of dlnacasts https://github.com/grunjol/dlnacasts

var dlnacasts = require('index')()

dlnacasts.on('update', function (player) {
  console.log('all players: ', dlnacasts.players)
  player.play('http://example.com/my-video.mp4', {title: 'my video', type: 'video/mp4'})
})

Create a torrent streaming server and cast the URL to your smart TV

var server = require('./server')
var dlnacasts = require('index')()

var magnet = 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ab3f1350ebe4563a710545d0e33e09a7b7943ecf&dn=awakening-new-zealand-4k.mp4&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.btorrent.xyz&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.fastcast.nz&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openwebtorrent.com&ws=https%3A%2F%2Ffastcast.nz%2Fdownloads%2Fawakening-new-zealand-4k.mp4&ws=https%3A%2F%2Fwebseed.btorrent.xyz%2Fawakening-new-zealand-4k.mp4'

dlnacasts.on('update', function (player) {
  console.log('Cast url', url, 'to player', player.name)

  server(magnet, function(url) {
    player.play(url, {title: 'my video', type: 'video/mp4'})
  })
  
})

API

Torrent Server

server(magnet, cb)

Creates an HTTP server on random port that streams the torrent from magnet.

Magnet can be any torrentId supported by webtorrent. https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent

The callback cb must be a function with signature:

function (url, server, client, type) {}

The url is the URL of the main video file to be streamed.

The server is the express or node.js server instance.

The client is the webtorrent instance

The type is a string representing the server type (torrent|mp4) where mp4 is transcoding server for mp4 video playable by HTML5.

DLNA

var list = dlnacasts()

Creates a dlna list. When creating a new list it will call list.update() once.

list.update()

Updates the player list by querying the local network for DLNA renderer instances.

list.on('update', player)

Emitted when a new player is found on the local network

player.play(url, [opts], cb)

Make the player play a url. Options include:

{
  title: 'My movie',
  type: 'video/mp4',
  seek: seconds, // start by seeking to this offset
  subtitles: ['http://example.com/sub.vtt'], // subtitle track 1,
  autoSubtitles: true // enable first track if you provide subs
}

player.subtitles(track, [cb])

Enable subtitle track. Use player.subtitles(false) to disable subtitles

player.pause([cb])

Make the player pause playback

player.resume([cb])

Resume playback

player.stop([cb])

Stop the playback

player.seek(seconds, [cb])

Seek the video

player.status(cb)

Get a status object of the current played video.

player.on('status', status)

Emitted when a status object is received.

License

MIT