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Dropping magnet urls doesn't seem to be working for me #137

Closed vivek1729 closed 9 years ago

vivek1729 commented 9 years ago

So I cloned the master branch and am able to run butter-desktop. However, I tried dropping a magnet url on screen and it gets stuck at the "Connecting.." screen after resolving the torrent. In console as well I just get "Loading Torrent" as a message and nothing seems to be happening after that. Any idea on how to debug this to get the magnet urls to work as they used to in PopCorn Time. Anyone facing a similar issue, any help is appreciated :)

kisPocok commented 9 years ago

I have the same experience. In my case, Streamer.start gets a string (/var/folders/[...]/T/Butter/TorrentCache/somehash.torrent) instead of an object with torrent url or magnet properties. This causes the never ending loop.

update: I was wrong. Streamer.start should work with a simple cache url as a string. The reason for failure are the missing state update(s). The player don't send new states so the UI gets stuck in connecting state.

vivek1729 commented 9 years ago

Yes, you're right. The state doesn't update itself. However, earlier I thought, the app is not able to handle magnet urls at all but that's not the case. So if you change the api response and send a magnet url instead of a .torrent url, the streaming works. Why is that the case?

xaiki commented 9 years ago

DO NOT RE-ENABLE TORRENT COLLECTIONS IN BUTTER, not for now, not without making it modular. thank you.