This update re-introduces our transcoder to the TorBox service. This allows you to play any media file on your browser, just like you would for YouTube. We previously introduced this feature very early on, but it wasn’t very popular, and there were too many technical challenges due to using GoFile as storage (crazy days), as well as lacking the time and skill to be able to build out a comparable feature to other services. Now that we have more control, we are able to add awesome, nice-to-have features like this!

This allows you to stream anywhere, but also allows developers to also tap into this new feature, powering a new wave of apps, built on TorBox, for streaming video. Transcoding is extremely fast, and you are able to seek anywhere in the timeline without having to wait for buffering. Eventually adaptive bitrate streaming will be added, once we have determined requirements and finished testing, allowing users on lower bandwidths to scale down their video dynamically to a lower resolution for buffer-free playback.

Website

• Introduces the ability to stream video files directly to your browser by clicking the stream button on the download page for compatible videos. This takes you to the stream page, which is the brand new TorBox video player.

  • There are all the controls you need, as well as changing subtitles and audio, even viewing the nerdy stream info about the video as well.

  • If detected, there will be shown a “Skip Intro” button. More information can be found in this help document about the new “Skip Intro” feature.

    

  • There are too many small things to talk about in this change log (where they will be forgotten), so we created an article for you to further understand the player and how it works, and how to use it (the most important part).

  • A fun and nostalgic screensaver has been added to this page, if you stay idle for too long…

  • This is a Pro only feature for the time being.

• Adds “Wait for uncached Usenet downloads” and “Wait for uncached Torrent downloads” options under the Stremio addon section. Read more about these options under the Stremio Addon section.

• New login page. Refreshed to include fancy animations, as well as Single Sign On (SSO)! This allows you to sign in using Google or Apple, making logging in easy as a single click.

  • Your account must match the Google or Apple account email otherwise, it will create a new email.

  • You are able to both sign in, and sign up with these buttons.

  • You still must pass the captcha before logging in.

  • TorBox will show you what you last logged in with on this device if you have ever used SSO. This makes it easy to remember which button to click when logging in.

    

• Adds cancellation reason before cancelling your subscription. This allows us to collect necessary information on why you are cancelling your subscription, to better improve our services.

API

• Brings back the streaming API where you can develop your own player to use with your TorBox files! Developers can use this API to create streams, and gather metadata about video files on a users TorBox account, allowing them to stream their content on the browser, or any video player, without any worry about compatibility. API DOCS.

  • These streams are usually faster to start, as well as has the least amount of buffering, which can be very valuable for users on weak connections.

• API is now much faster for routes with API keys (nearly every single request). This can result in over 200ms savings!

Service

• Long running downloads via the CDN have been fixed.

• Improves downloads speeds via CDNs. Ramp up speeds have been majorly improved.

• Allows sending properly formatted webhooks to Pushcut.io.

  • This requires the Pushcut Pro subscription to be used properly.

• Referrals are now only valid for the first payment on a user’s account, but buying a year long subscription will now give you 84 days. Similarly, you will get 7 days for every month purchased with your referral code active. You can read more about it here.

Web Downloads

• Fixes Vikingfile downloads.

• Fixes Hitfile downloads.

• Fixes Turbobit downloads.

• Fixes Mediafire downloads.

• Handles GoFile downloads with subfolders.

• Fixes RedGifs downloads.

• Fixes Hexload downloads

Stremio Addon

• Searching via the addon should be much faster than before with heavy optimizations made.

• Allows search Your Media by using Stremio search to find items in Your Media Catalogue.

• When enabled in the settings, the addon can now wait for uncached Usenet downloads to be completed on TorBox and directly streamed to Stremio without forcing you to view the “TorBox is downloading” video, and having to click back on the file once completed.

  • This allows you to simply “buffer” for a short amount of time while you wait for the Usenet download to be completed. Once the video is available from TorBox, it will start streaming the video.

  • Streams with this enabled are labeled “Cache & Play”.

  • This works with torrents as well, but Usenet downloads much faster, so it will be more useful in Usenet downloads.

  • The Stremio addon will only wait for up to 90 seconds for the video to download, otherwise it will return the common “TorBox is downloading” video to you, and you will have to return to the stream once the file is complete.

• Improves stream start times, reducing the amount of buffering time necessary.