Guide

Guide for using Powder Web. (work in progress)

Fastest Way to Start Playback for Torrents

Powder Web is made to support the web, it's also made to stream torrents to your browser. But the fastest way to start torrent playback is to use a local video player (whichever video player you wish).

This is because streaming to your browser includes additional tasks that take time, while streaming to a normal video player is done with minimal (and fast) tasks.

To make Powder Web's Play Buttons always start with a local video player instead of the web player go to the Settings Panel and set "Play Button" under "User Interface" to "Download Playlist" instead of "Web Player".

You can use a local video player on any device. (either phone, tablet, PC, etc)

Private Torrent Trackers not Working

Most private torrent websites have a whitelist (others have a blacklist) of torrent clients that are allowed to use them or not. Powder Web is a new torrent client, although it seeds well and protects against torrent poisoning, which should get it whitelisted on private torrent websites when and if it will is something that we can't predict.

Until it gets famous enough to be considered to be taken into account by private trackers, users can spoof their Peer ID from the Settings Panel to mimic a different torrent client.

For example: setting the Peer ID to "UT3530" tells trackers that you're using uTorrent v3.5.3, which IS whitelisted by one private tracker that I know and thus downloads the torrent successfully.

Please be sure to check the websites whitelist or blacklist, which is usually visible in the footer of the website.