Haven't got this to work yet. I'd love to see a BT streaming solution not as a centralized service, but as a locally running app. Does such a thing exist?
My personal preferred suggestion: the Bittorrent Channel for Plex[0]. Plex is, effectively, a media indexing, library management, and transcoding daemon, that also provides plug-ins (Channels) to access virtual media items. In this setup, you have a streaming player (e.g. a Roku) and a PC running Plex--you access the torrent through the interface on the media player, and the PC will start downloading and transcoding the torrent and streaming the result to the media player.
Not possible currently with web technologies because browsers don't let javascript connect to arbitrary TCP servers. The webtorrent project aims to make torrent clients compatible with WebRTC, so when that gets widespread adoption it should be possible.
Tribler has been around for a long time and it has tons of good research behind it. However, it simply doesn't work. Tried stream a variety of content and it just doesn't show anything unless it's a really healthy torrent which is very rare.
