shamu726 Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 (edited) Cinefi is a brand new service that allows users to stream movie and TV-torrents directly to their browser, with no external torrent clients, plugins or video players needed. The unique "patent pending" technology streams videos on-the-fly, and works on pretty much any device that has a browser.A few weeks ago a new piece of software called “Popcorn Time” made headlines around the world.The key to this success was the app’s sheer simplicity, something that was missing from most of the earlier torrent streaming services. Today, a new torrent streaming service launched, one that’s just as simple, but doesn’t require any extra software.Using only HTML5 technology, Cinefi can stream video torrents directly to a browser. There is no need to install any software or plugins and it works on every platform. This is not limited to PCs and laptops either, since it also includes mobile devices and game consoles.TorrentFreak caught up with the main developer Rich, who says that the main motivation to develop the service was to see if it was possible to make a torrent streaming tool without any additions.“We started the project for the sheer challenge of seeing if we could stream torrents directly to the browser without any other software,” Rick explains to TF.The result is a web service that looks awfully simple, but works as advertised. Similar to Popcorn Time, it taps into a database of YTS movies, but users can also stream other videos by pasting a magnet link into the search box.“Right now you can search for movies, which come from YTS, but Cinefi will play any torrent or magnet link, except videos encoded in AVI. Just paste and click,” Rich says.As can be seen below, a trailer of the fourth Game of Thrones season plays just fine after a few seconds of loading time. As with any torrent streaming service, the playback is the smoothest for files that have relatively many seeders.Cinefi: Game of Thrones Trailer Cinefi is closed source and uses a “patent-pending technology” which blends several HTML5 technologies. According to the developer, this makes it the first torrent streaming service of its kind, and since it doesn’t depend on extra software, it can be used by pretty much anyone, anywhere.Of course, the entertainment industries are not going to cheer on this development, but the technology itself isn’t infringing on any copyrights according to the Cinefi team. In fact, they advise people not to use the service in any way that might break the law.“As stated on the site, the site is legal to use, but downloading illegal torrents isn’t. We don’t encourage any illegal activity on the site. We do not host or store any torrents,” Rich tells TF.“We merely provide the technology and it is up to the user’s discretion,” he adds.Those who are interested can head over to Cinefi.com and take the service for a spin, with this torrent for example. It’s free to use, and will remain so for the foreseeable future.Update: Cinefi appears to have some trouble loading every now and then, probably due to the sudden increase in vsitors.Source: TorrentFreak Edited April 16, 2014 by shamu726 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMan Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 I just tried this and it seems to work pretty well. The funny thing is that IDM had a 'download this' button or whatever and.. ..it worked. XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackieo Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 (edited) what browser? FF not working?Firefox, Waterfox Cyberfox all fail. click stream it ..nothing happensInternet Explorer 11 (win7) fails. player loads, but then nothing happens, no activity in task mgrbest method is still downloading and watching Edited April 15, 2014 by jackieo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEngEE Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 (edited) Important typo : the domain ends with i -- that is cinefi = www.cinefi.comTrust someone (maybe:Torrent Freak) to confuse the heck out of a name. Even the screenshot shows "i".---Edit: Well what do ya know, typos have been fixed in the OP and at Source, excerpts remain in the Source comments tho ;) Edited April 16, 2014 by BEngEE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackieo Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 the site is dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMan Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 I'm using Opera and got it to work once. After that, I couldn't get the site to load. Probably being hammered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 I still say xbmc has all of them beat with the proper addon's. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob1st Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Yes xbmc is the best and the only add on you really need is this one http://www.mashupxbmc.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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