sagz/popcorn-app

An experiment using the peerflix module of nodejs and connecting a bunch of APIs.

#Popcorn time

Idea

To allow any computer user to watch movies easily streaming from torrents, without any particular knowledge.

Status

Under development (RC1) for Mac OSX - Windows - Linux.

APIs

Currently used:

• RottenTomatoes for movies metadata.
• PirateBay Recent popular movies list.
• YIFY movie torrents API.
• OpenSubtitles for subtitles
• TheMovieDB for movies metadata.

In discussion:

• SubtitleSeeker for subtitles.

Building

Dependencies

You will need nodejs and grunt:

$ npm install -g grunt-cli

Build

Install the node modules and fix dependancies issue:

$ npm install
$ patch -p1 node_modules/moviedb/node_modules/superagent/index.js superagent-fix-node-webkit.patch

Build with:

$ grunt nodewkbuild

By default it will build for your current platform however you can control that by specifying a comma separated list of platforms in the platforms option to grunt:

$ grunt nodewkbuild --platforms=linux32,linux64,mac,win

You can also build for all platforms with:

$ grunt nodewkbuild --platforms=all

Any problem?

Regarding Video, MP4 H264 Playback

• Info: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/Support-mp3-and-h264-in-video-and-audio-tag
• Needed to build a custom build of node-webkit that adds h264 support (or you can download ready-to-go builds from https://file.ac/s4Lt3Vo6rls/)
• Alternatively, we can replace a .so and .dll file from the correspondent Chrome build to node-webkit and node-webkit.exe

Development

• Run compass watch --css-dir css in Terminal for CSS compiling and listen to future changes.
• How to build with SublimeText
• Currently Gaze to watch all files and reload the app is disabled due to memory leaks and unstability.
• Run node-webkit from the root directory with --debug to enable debugging mode like so node-webkit . --debug