Start peerflix + vlc from nw.js

I’m developing app on nw.js, for start peerflix + vlc i do

var exec = require('child_process').exec, child; child = exec(nwDir + '\\nw.exe '+ nwDir +'\\peerflix\\app.js "' + link + '" -v -- --meta-title "' + theTitle + '"');

Is there another way to do this? (if i will use peerflix as module)

[jaruba]

You can include peerflix as a node.js module to get the streaming URL, see: https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix/issues/211#issuecomment-116320318

Then you can either start a child process with VLC and the streaming URL, or maybe generate a playlist file with all the streaming URLs and start that.

Or maybe you want to play it directly in NW.js, in which case you’ll need to rebuild NW.js with full video support, so you can play the streaming URL with the <video> tag directly.

An alternative to rebuilding NW.js with full video support is using WebChimera.js, and either create your own player or use an already built player (WebChimera.js Player). As WebChimera.js uses libVLC internally, it will support any media that VLC would.

[jaruba]

@mafintosh This looks like it’s simply missing from the code because someone forgot to add it. Can you or @webkitten push it to the project.

I’m still using my peerflix fork in some projects, so I can’t. 😃