Tribler is an open-source peer-to-peer client with numerous features for watching videos online. The user interface could be very primary and targeted on ease of use, as an alternative together with features.
This program relies on the BitTorrent protocol and uses an overlay network for content looking. Due to this overlay network, Tribler doesn’t require an exterior website or indexing service to find content.
Tribler was created by university researchers attempting to enhance peer-to-peer technology. The application enhances BitTorrent by removing the necessity for central components such as websites for locating content. The intention is to extend performance, reliability, and scalability.
The most important features include video-only looking, experimental video streaming, and a built-in video player. The SwarmPlayer is a Python-based BitTorrent Internet TV viewer. It allows you to observe BitTorrent-hosted peer-to-peer digital media distribution of video on demand and performs live streaming media.
Tribler provides keyword search skills to the BitTorrent file download protocol using a gossip protocol. That is considerably just like the eXeem network which was shut down in 2005.
After a dozen downloads, this software can roughly estimate the download style of the user and recommend content. This feature relies on collaborative filtering, additionally featured on websites resembling Last.FM and Amazon.com.
Another feature is a restricted form of social networking and donation of upload capability. Tribler includes the power to mark particular users as online buddies. Such buddies allow a rise in the download speed of files by using their upload capability. Due to those features, this software differs from popular BitTorrent clients resembling Vuze and μTorrent.
Changes in Tribler 7.14.0 :
New features
- Add Content Bundling feature
- Add torrent information to a snippet
- Remove the torrent grouping feature based on names
Bugfixes
- UDP server stops accepting datagrams from any clients after a single client disconnects
- Process manager should not attempt to unlink the processes database file in case of OperationalError
- Fix “ValueError: Can redirect only to HTTP or HTTPS” in query_http_uri
- Close database connections after exiting from the db_session to avoid access violation
- Fix slow database queries by using partial index idx_torrentstate__last_check__partial
- Fix coroutine stack tracking
- Add a sentry tag for the program file architecture (32-bit or 64-bit)
- Fix Sentry report corruption by SentryScrubber
Build process improvements
- Add codesign for macOS build
- Fix the Release build on the 7.14 branch
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11.
- macOS Yosemite or newer.
- Linux Ubuntu.
Size: 140 MB
