🚀 Webtor Update — Seek is finally fixed + Live Torrent Stats (Patreon)

We’ve just shipped two updates that remove one of the most annoying problems in torrent streaming and make things way more transparent.

🎬 Session-based Transcoder — 

seek finally works properly

We’ve fully switched to a session-based transcoder.

The key change:

you can now seek instantly without waiting for FFmpeg to catch up.

Before:

• seeking meant waiting until the transcoder processed the stream up to that point

• painful on long videos

Now:

• a single FFmpeg process per session

• proper seek support

• near-instant jumping to any position

The old mode is gone — this is now the only path.

📡 Live Torrent Status — no more guessing

The resource page now shows a real-time torrent status.

You can see:

• how much of the torrent is cached

• how many peers are connected

• is it vaulted or not

So instead of guessing:

“is it downloading or stuck?”

—you just see it.

💡 Why this matters

• Seek → removes a major UX pain

• Status → removes uncertainty

Together, this makes Webtor feel much less like a black box and more like a predictable tool.