Based on our record, Emby seems to be a lot more popular than Peerflix. While we know about 58 links to Emby, we've tracked only 2 mentions of Peerflix. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I used to use Plex until I found Emby. I find Emby easier to use and it does the same thing. Just putting this here as a fourth option for OP. :). Source: 6 months ago
I use https://emby.media along with private trackers and Usenet. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
You can find it here! I have both installed, but I generally keep EMBY turned off until I want to play around with it. You can have both running at once and both accessing the same folders. You can check it out for free. Source: 11 months ago
Emby: Offers premium features with some behind a membership. Source: 11 months ago
I went with Emby, personally. Plex, Jellyfin, etc are all good choices too! :). Source: 12 months ago
When I used a Chromecast, I was fond of an even more direct method. I used a Node CLI called "peerflix" [0] to stream a video file while downloading its torrent (so there wasn't even a need to wait). Then I just opened my browser to the local network address where peerflix was hosting the h264 playlist, and used the Cast button to stream it to my device (which I believe technically means Chromecast "takes over"... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
This is something I've repeated like 10 times on this subreddit, but you don't need to wait for a torrent to finish to start watching it. Literally every torrent client in the past decade supports downloading first piece files first, so you don't have to wait for the download to finish and can start watching it immediately. There's even stuff like peerflix which makes it easier. Source: over 3 years ago
Kodi - Kodi is an award winning free and open source media player that got its start on the Xbox console.
Exatorrent - Exatorrent is a platform where you can download torrent files for free easily.
Jellyfin - Jellyfin is a personal media server.
JSTorrent - Torrent client for Google Chrome and Chromebooks
Stremio - Watch videos, movies, TV series and TV channels instantly.
Webtor - Download and play torrents with free cloud BitTorrent client