Serverless torrent video streamer
Open a magnet link or a .torrent and it starts playing — with the
subtitles it came with, and on your TV if you want it there. No upload, no
account, no waiting for the download to finish. The whole thing runs on your
own machine.
What it does
Every frame below is a photograph of the running product, not a drawing. All of it acts on a link you supply — there is no catalogue here and nothing to search.
The .srt and .ass files that come with a torrent
are picked up as you play, and the subtitle tracks buried inside an MKV are
converted for the browser while it streams. Pick one from the player,
beside the audio track menu.
Right-click a link and pick Play. The helper decides from the bytes whether it is a torrent, so a download page that hides the file behind a script still works.
Cast to a Chromecast or a DLNA renderer on your network — including a file the helper is still converting. The discovery and the sending happen on your machine; the tab keeps the controls.
A pack opens at its first episode instead of its largest file, the playlist runs in episode order, and autoplay carries you into the next one — in the tab or on the TV.
The toolbar popup turns a magnet link into a file list, so you choose what to watch before anything plays.
MKV, HEVC and 5.1 soundtracks are remuxed or transcoded as they stream, so a file the browser would not touch plays anyway.
Save a video to disk through the browser's own download manager, and it lands wherever your downloads land.
An optional play button beside torrent links on the sites you visit. Off until you turn it on, granted through the browser's own permission prompt, and revocable.
How it works
Neither half phones home. The extension is what you see; the helper is what talks to the swarm. They meet on a loopback port nothing else can reach.
Add a magnet link or a .torrent, then watch. The extension
detects torrents, drives playback, and talks to the helper over a private
local channel.
A small program running a loopback daemon on your machine: it joins the swarm, fetches the bytes the player needs next, and streams the video back to the extension. Install it once and forget it.
Pieces are requested in the order the player needs them, not the order the torrent lists them. That is why playback starts in seconds, and why seeking ahead does not mean downloading everything in between.
Privacy
There is no Flitplay server in the path, no account, and no telemetry. This page itself loads no analytics, no trackers and no remote fonts.
Install
Two installs, in this order. The extension is the half you use; the helper is the half that talks to the swarm. Neither does anything without the other.
It is free, needs no account, and installs like any other extension. This is the part you will actually use: it detects torrents and plays them.
A browser extension cannot join a swarm on its own. Grab the build for your system — it is the same binary the extension keeps up to date afterwards.
Installers are on the way. Check back soon — this page will offer the right download for your system automatically.
Questions
Install the Flitplay extension and its native helper, then open a magnet link or a .torrent file. The helper joins the swarm on your machine and serves the video to the browser over a private loopback connection, so the extension can play it like any other video file. There is no website to upload to and no account to create.
No. Flitplay fetches pieces in the order the player needs them rather than in the order the torrent lists them, so playback starts once the opening pieces have arrived and continues while the rest download. Seeking asks for the pieces under the new position, so you can jump ahead without waiting for everything in between.
Yes, and it finds them for you. Subtitle files that come with the torrent — .srt and .ass — are picked up automatically, and the subtitle tracks buried inside an MKV are converted to something the browser can render as you watch. Pick a track from the player's subtitle menu, alongside the audio track menu, without converting the file first.
Yes. Flitplay casts to a Chromecast or to a DLNA renderer on the same network, including a file the helper is still converting as it plays. The helper does the discovery and the sending, so the video goes from your machine to the device you picked and no further, and the browser tab keeps the transport controls.
Yes. A season pack opens at its first episode rather than at whichever file happens to be largest, and the playlist runs in episode order rather than the order the torrent lists its files. Autoplay then carries you into the next episode when the current one ends — in the browser tab or on the TV you are casting to.
Yes. Any file in a torrent can be saved to disk through the browser's own download manager, so it lands wherever your downloads normally land and behaves like anything else you have downloaded. Streaming and saving are separate choices: watching something does not keep it, and keeping it does not mean waiting to watch.
BitTorrent is a two-way protocol: while your machine has pieces, other peers can request them, and that is how the swarm you are downloading from exists at all. Flitplay exposes seeding as a setting you control, and shows when the helper is uploading rather than leaving it running out of sight.
The video never does. The helper runs on your machine and streams to your browser over loopback, so no server of ours sees the torrent, the file or the playback. What does leave is what BitTorrent requires: your machine talks to trackers and peers for the torrents you open, exactly as any other client would. The page you are reading loads no analytics, no trackers and no remote fonts.
A browser extension cannot open the raw TCP and UDP connections BitTorrent runs on, and it cannot keep working while the browser is busy. The helper is a small local program that does that part and nothing else: it joins the swarm, fetches pieces and serves them back to the extension. You install it once, and the extension keeps it up to date.
Anything the browser can already decode plays directly — MP4 and WebM with common codecs. For the formats a browser will not touch, such as MKV with certain audio tracks, the helper remuxes or transcodes the stream on the fly so it still plays without you converting the file first.