Download Window Make Up

Today we updated the UI of the download window: although it is still quite as simple as before, hopefully it will be a lot easier to understand.

In addition to that, we also added one of the features you asked about most frequently: you can now pause your torrents.

Post on the feedback forum or let us know if you have any question or issue.

Path selection on Mac: small fixes

If you are among our friends who use a Mac, you might have experienced some issues with the torrent saving process.

This was due to a bug in Apple's implementation of file selection dialogs, but eventually found a way to avoid the problem by switching to different controls.

Please let us know if you experience any problem. Any time.

Major updates are on their way. Stay tuned!

New video player

If you have already tried video streaming via bitlet, you might be interested in this post as well. If you haven't yet, well, this is the time!

A few weeks ago we silently released a new version of our video player, which leverages the new HTML 5 video tag supported by the most recent browsers (such as Firefox 3.5+). This should, eventually, result in a better experience for you.

You can give it a try it by selecting the links underneath each thumbnail in the video section.
As usual, feedback is welcome.

Have fun!

BitLet plugin for WordPress bloggers

Those of you that use WordPress will certainly appreciate this: loixiyo created a BitLet plugin for Wordpress that allows you to link torrents so that they will be directly downloaded using BitLet.

Kudos!

Streaming video via BitTorrent!

We just relased a new applet that can be used to stream video content using Bittorrent, just as we do with the music player.

The applet is meant to let video publishers distribute their content without having to
all the distribution costs themselves.

Point your browser to bitlet.org/video to see a selection of sample videos to watch.

For now, the player applet itself is quite experimental and is able to play only torrents containing exactly one theora/vorbis-encoded video.

A couple of news

1. We added the seeders/leechers statistics in the download window.
2. We are working on quite a big feature. We hope to release something new in the next days, in order to gather your feedbacks and impressions. Stay tuned for the next updates.
   

Seeders and leechers in the download UI, and other news

Good news!
We recently updated the download window in order to show the number of seeders and leechers. (The ones which are currently connected to your client, to be precise.)
You should see the figures if you leave your mouse over the little led icon on the bottom right corner of the window.

Although we're happy about adding that feature (that was the second most voted open issue!), we think the visualization we're presently using is not the best way to present such information.

The download window is quite small and screen estate is scarce, but we thought about a couple other alternatives.

option 1: bottom right corner
The numbers are always visible right near the led icon. Seeders and Leechers are abbreviated.

option 2: top
Numbers appear on top of the page the third time you click on the statistics area (just like upload/download stats). They are not visible by default.

Which one do you prefer? Have you got any other great idea?
Don't hesitate to let us know!

Mock-ups were created with Balsamiq Mockups, an awesome tool for UI prototyping (and one of the few outstanding AIR applications out there).

If you want to play with the original mock-up, you can download it from here. If you want to send us back the results of your experiments, mail them back to us -_^.

As a side note, here are some other updates we hope you'll appreciate:

• We fixed a bug in the download code that made the applet attempt to establish connections on the wrong ports. Download performance should be better now :)
• We added support for the "key" announce parameter, as suggested by Marco Túlio Pires from dattebayo.com.
  
• We signed all the applets using a brand new certificate, and that's why your browser may have presented you with one of those cryptic security-related message windows (read more about certificates)