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Add warning about WebTorrent

ISSUE

Currently, there are no video players (that I'm aware of) that can watch a video while downloading it though WebTorrent. This means that when using peertube-viewer, unless you chose to open all videos in the browser, peertube's WebTorrent feature isn't used. This means that using peertube-viewer increases the load on the server.

The user should be warned about that in the README, in the docs, and maybe even when running peertube-viewer-rs for the first time.

Temporary Solutions

  • Warn the user in several places that it might be bad for the hosts to use peertube-viewer

Long term solutions

  • Video players (mpv, vlc...) start supporting torrents This is unlikely to happen, as it is a rather niche use case

  • peertube-viewer launches a torrent client as a local seedbox and points the video player to it. This is likely the best solution, but useless for now since no torrent client supports WebTorrent for the moment. This might change with libtorrent adding support for web torrent.