I just want to point out the lost art of doing this with .rar files.<p>Multipart rar files are not actually compressed <i>so I heard</i> and if you get the file headers and download them in order then you can stream a video<p>Torrents and the associated scene frequently still pack things as multipart rar files. (a holdover from even more inferior methods of transporting large files)<p>Kodi (XBMC) is still the only client I know that does this, since early 2000s
This seems similar to Popcorn Time (<a href="https://github.com/butterproject/butter-desktop" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/butterproject/butter-desktop</a>).
So the extension implements a torrent downloader and video player together or it's something more sophisticated? There's no explanation of how it works so I'm curious.