Popcorn Time

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

Visit the project's website at https://popcorntime.io.

Getting Involved

Want to report a bug, request a feature, contribute or translate Popcorn Time? Check out our in-depth guide to Contributing to Popcorn Time. We need all the help we can get! You can also join in with our community to keep up-to-date and meet other Popcorn Timers.

Getting Started

If you're comfortable getting up and running from a git clone, this method is for you.

If you clone the GitLab repository, you will need to build a number of assets using grunt.

The master branch which contains the latest release.

Quickstart:

npm install -g grunt-cli bower
npm install
grunt build
grunt start

If you encounter trouble with the above method, you can try:

npm install -g bower grunt-cli (Linux: you may need to run with sudo)
cd desktop
npm install
bower install
grunt lang
grunt nodewebkit
grunt css
grunt start

Optionally, you may simply run ./make_popcorn.sh if you are on a linux or mac based operating system.

Full instructions & troubleshooting tips can be found in the Contributing Guide

Community

Keep track of Popcorn Time development and community activity.

Follow Popcorn Time on Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
Read and subscribe to the The Official Popcorn Time Blog.
Join in discussions on the Popcorn Time Forum
Connect with us on IRC at #popcorntime on freenode (web access)

Versioning

For transparency and insight into our release cycle, and for striving to maintain backward compatibility, Popcorn Time will be maintained according to the Semantic Versioning guidelines as much as possible.

Releases will be numbered with the following format:

<major>.<minor>.<patch>-<build>

Constructed with the following guidelines:

A new major release indicates a large change where backwards compatibility is broken.
A new minor release indicates a normal change that maintains backwards compatibility.
A new patch release indicates a bugfix or small change which does not affect compatibility.
A new build release indicates this is a pre-release of the version.

If you distribute a copy or make a fork of the project, you have to credit this project as source.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ .