It will fail to play many of the commonly used modern video formats like HEVC. WebTorrent Desktop is capable of playing a very limited number of video formats like MPEG/AVC. WebTorrent Desktop downloading and playing 'Tears Of Steel' made by the Blender foundation. Clicking on any of those makes WebTorrent download and instantly play them.

It has five idle torrents pre-configured. WebTorrent Desktop launches into a vertical window that looks like it designed to be used on a mobile phone. It is available for GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS. WebTorrent Desktop is free software licensed under the MIT Software License. WebTorrent Desktop has a built-in video player that can be used to watch a somewhat limited number of videos while they are being downloaded. It is not very configurable and it lacks many of the basic features more powerful bittorrent clients have. It is notable for supporting the WebTorrent protocol in addition to the standard bittorrent protocol. WebTorrent Desktop is a simple graphical bittorrent client written in JavaScript.

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