Best Torrent Download Program Windows

OpenSource Application which has a Complete set of Tools to organize, get info and Download torrents of Tv-Series. REQUIREMENTS:.WINDOWS (vista or newer, 32/64 bit auto);.UTORRENT or Similar Torrent Client.INTERNET EXPLORER ready to deal with Torrent and MagnetLinks. Test IE (at magnetdl.com) before running. Sep 24, 2020 Deluge is another fantastic choice for those looking for one of the best torrenting programs for Windows 10. Like qBittorrent, it’s one of the oldest torrent client on Windows, dating back to its original release in September 2006. Both offer torrent download, media playback and support for magnet file links, but Vuze Plus adds integrated virus protection and the ability to preview media files. One of Vuze's key selling.

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qBittorrent is based on Qt4 toolkit and libtorrent-rasterbar. qBittorrent is developed by volunteers on their spare time. If you like this piece of software, please make a donation and help it survive. Additionally, qBittorrent runs and provides the same features on all major platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD).

Features:

  • Polished µTorrent-like User Interface
  • Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine
    • Simultaneous search in most famous BitTorrent search sites
    • Per-category-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Movies)
  • All Bittorrent extensions
    • DHT, Peer Exchange, Full encryption, Magnet/BitComet URIs, ...
  • Remote control through a Web user interface
    • Nearly identical to the regular UI, all in Ajax
  • Advanced control over trackers, peers and torrents
    • Torrents queueing and prioritizing
    • Torrent content selection and prioritizing
  • UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
  • Available in ~25 languages (Unicode support)
  • Torrent creation tool
  • Advanced RSS support with download filters (inc. regex)
  • Bandwidth scheduler
  • IP Filtering (eMule and PeerGuardian compatible)
  • IPv6 compliant
  • Sequential downloading (aka 'Download in order')
  • Available on most platforms: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD

What's New:

It contains various qbittorrent and libtorrent networking fixes. Now most issues with VPNs and SOCKS5 proxies should be fixed.

Best Torrent Download Program Windows 64-bit

ATTENTION WINDOWS USERS: There's a 'qBittorrent' app on the Windows Store which costs money. It isn't an official release nor it is coming from us. The person publicizing it doesn't have permission to use the qBittorrent name/logo.
v4.3.2 changelog:

  • Feature: Allow to add root folder to torrent content (glassez)
  • Feature: 'HTTPS tracker validation' option is available on all platforms with latest libtorrent (Chocobo1)
  • Feature: Option for supporting internationalized domain names (IDNs) (Chocobo1)
  • Bugfix: Fix broken sorting on some columns (Chocobo1)
  • Bugfix: Fix availability per file value (Chocobo1)
  • Bugfix: Fix status of torrents without metadata (sledgehammer999)
  • Bugfix: Don't try to remove folders for a torrent without metadata (sledgehammer999)
  • Bugfix: Lift upper limit of 'Max concurrent HTTP announces' option (Chocobo1)
  • Bugfix: Add links to libtorrent documentation (Chocobo1)
  • Bugfix: Move 'embedded tracker' options to qbt section (Chocobo1)
  • Bugfix: Properly handle 'Append extension' option changing (glassez)
  • Bugfix: Correctly save paused torrent state (glassez)
  • Bugfix: Fix bug of 'move storage job' can be performed multiple times (glassez)
  • WebUI: Add ability to use 'shift+delete' to delete torrents (Chocobo1)
  • WebUI: Allow to attach tags while adding torrents (Jesse Chan)
  • WebUI: Bump version to 2.6.2 (Jesse Chan)
  • WebUI: Remove unnecessary restriction on input length (Chocobo1)
  • Windows: NSIS: Update Russian translation (Andrei Stepanov)
  • Windows: NSIS: Update Italian translation (Alessandro Simonelli)
  • Other: Drop support for building with libtorrent 1.2.11 (Vladimir Golovnev)

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BitTorrent has been around for so many years and it’s still widely being used today. You can find a lot of things including the latest movies and TV series to download on a popular Torrent tracker websites like “The Pirate Bay” which the authorities can’t seem to permanently shut down. Downloading files using BitTorrent is usually done with client software such as uTorrent, Vuze, qBitTorrent or Tixati.

Every torrent client has its own distinct advantages and one very useful feature that is not commonly found is the ability to “stream” which is to start the playback without waiting for the whole file to complete downloading. Just like viewing online videos on YouTube, you get to start watching right away and that saves you a lot of time.

If you’d like to stream a video or movie file from a torrent without waiting for it to download first, here we have 10 options that allow you to do that for free.

Torrent programs for windows 101. WebTorrent Desktop

WebTorrent has fast become one of the best ways to stream torrents and especially videos online. Because it uses WebRTC to exchange data, you will connect with other WebTorrent enabled torrent services or clients and not standard Bittorrent. WebTorrent should still provide good video streaming.

WebTorrent Desktop is an open source torrent client and is dedicated to streaming video and audio. A big advantage of this program is it accepts connections from both WebTorrent and BitTorrent which means you should be able to stream at the best possible speeds. WebTorrent Desktop is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

After launching WebTorrent Desktop all you have to do is drop a torrent file onto the window, press Ctrl+V or go to Edit > “Paste Torrent Address” to add a magnet link. Some free videos are already in the main window for you to test. Press the Play button to open the video window and wait for the video to start. A red bar at the bottom will show the buffer status. If the torrent has multiple video files you can click on it and select to play a specific video.

WebTorrent Desktop won’t directly play all content (such as H265) and if it tries to stream an unsupported video you will be given the option to use an external player. VLC is the default option but something else can be chosen in preferences. Popular players like MPC-HC/BE and Daum PotPlayer will also work. Streaming to AirPlay, Chromecast and DLNA is also supported.

Download WebTorrent Desktop | WebTorrent Desktop Portable

2. Soda Player

Soda Player is a torrent video streaming player that claims to be able to handle all video formats, including the likes of H265 and DTS. Theoretically, you shouldn’t find a video it can’t play. It also has a built in proxy to help with privacy and ISP torrent throttling. This feature is free at the time of writing but is planned to be a paid option going forward.

On launch, Soda Player will accept dropping a torrent file or magnet link onto the window, browsing for a torrent file manually or pasting in a magnet/torrent URL. If there’s a link in the clipboard it will be automatically added. The video will start once enough of it has been downloaded, a marker on the play progress line will show how much has been buffered.

In addition to playing subtitles that are already included with the torrent or video file, Soda Player can automatically download extra subtitles from Opensubtitles.org. There’s support for multiple audio streams as well as the ability to cast the video to Chromecast or Apple TV.

Download Soda Player

An alternative player we tried was Powder Player. It works and looks good but it did seem to stop and buffer the same torrents far more than Soda Player did. There are settings to control things like buffer length but it didn’t help. It may work better for you and is worth keeping in mind as a streaming player.

3. Instant.io / Magnet Player

These two websites are grouped together because they both stream video online from a webpage using WebTorrent instead of BitTorrent. They are very easy to use and require no external tools, however, there are a few drawbacks as opposed to using the WebTorrent Desktop client.

The online services that use WebTorrent do not have the ability to accept both WebTorrent and BitTorrent connections like the desktop client, which potentially means fewer available peers. All you have to do is paste a magnet link/info hash into the box or add a .torrent file, a video window will open on the page and begin playing once enough data has been buffered.

Instant.io and Magnet Player cannot play formats like MKV, AVI or H265 and if you try to play a video with an unsupported format, nothing will happen. They’re fine with H264, AAC and MP4 though so something like YIFY (YTS.am) releases should play quite well.

Visit Instant.io | Magnet Player

4. Webtor

Webtor is different from the online WebTorrent services above because it uses standard BitTorrent. It also has an advantage in what can be played and what can’t. In addition to H264 and MP4, major formats like MKV and AVI are supported along with the increasingly popular H265. If the video format in the torrent is not natively supported by your browser it will be automatically transcoded for playback.

All you have to do is click “Open torrent online” to browse for a torrent file or click the arrow and paste a magnet link into the box. Once the torrent has been parsed, hover over the video file and press the play button. Pressing the download button instead will start the file downloading in your browser like a normal file. After a short wait, it will begin playing.

There are some very useful features available in the web player options menu (cog wheel) such as allowing you to select audio and subtitle streams, although we couldn’t get that to work. The copy stream URL button can be used to copy and then paste the link into video playing software like MPC-HC, PotPlayer or VLC. There’s also a Cast button to send the stream to a Chromecast device.

A Webtor Chrome extension is available that will open a clicked torrent/magnet link directly in Webtor.

Visit Webtor

5. qBitTorrent

Some standard torrent clients have the ability to download torrent videos in such a way that they can be played while being downloaded. The required feature is being able to download torrent data in sequential order. Some clients can do this like Tixati and uTorrent, but the tool we will look at here is qBitTorrent.

Apart from the sequential download option, qBitTorrent has an option to download the start and end pieces of the file first (to help with compatibility) and also to launch the video in an external player from its UI. All you have to do is add a torrent to qBitTorrent in the normal way and check the “Download in sequential order” and “Download first and last pieces first” boxes before starting the torrent.

You can also select those options later by right clicking on the torrent in the list. Watch the progress bar of the torrent and when a sizeable continuous chunk of the start has been downloaded (10%+), right click and select Preview File. This will launch the video in the system default video player. Make sure there are no gaps in the first block of the video in the progress bar or it won’t play properly because there’s missing data.

Another way of launching the video which will work on qBitTorrent, uTorrent, Tixati and other compatible torrent clients is to simply open the downloading video file in your favorite video player.

Download qBitTorrent

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Alexander3 months ago

Watch without installing the program on lightproxy.net

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Dude, this works and is much faster than any other torrent streaming sites, tysm, i hope they never shut this project.

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Laden8 months ago

Yes it is one of the best

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Take a look at miniget, you will not regret it.

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scratchskull12 months ago

Thanks man

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Yes. It is strange that streamdrive.net is not on the list

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Daniel4 years ago

thank you for your good advice,

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Thank you for the Info. I use streamdrive.net . They say that are still in beta but never the less work very nice.

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zeds5 years ago

Don’t forget about stremio!

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Stremio is awesome. It is like the Netflix of torrents! Everything is so organised and well catalogued.

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tarik2 years ago

thanks

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Yeah, stremio is a great option!

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jatedisse11 years ago

thanks raymond you rock

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Super Coolllll Ray. Tnx =3

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Onuoha Charles Enyinnaya11 years ago

Ray, you are undescribably good. keep up the good work

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Actually, he rocks! Thank you so much for all the tips! :)

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taif11 years ago

thanks raymond you are rock

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Nice share Ray.Now it’s your time to find out some bugs ;).

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Sunil Sherekar11 years ago

Thanks Raymond for such a fine share

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Best Torrent Download Program Windows 32-bit

It very modern and it make me more easy for watching. I hope you will try to help us more. Good luck reymond.

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ding-dong11 years ago

very usefull tool ray, thank you for sharing it,

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Thank you Raymond.

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