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by pascoej 2169 days ago
I've experimented with using youtube-dl as a backend before for my own music player. The latency to start is only about 2-3 seconds, slower than "webtorrent --mpv <torrent>" is for video.

You might want to mess around with the piece picker, there's options specifically for streaming. http://libtorrent.org/reference-Core.html#set_piece_deadline