How is this different from the popcorn time app that was posted here a couple days ago? Any reason this is better?

Disclaimer: I'm the author

Well, apart from the fact that it existed way before, it also serves a different purpose:

- Last version has 8 providers (as opposed to 1)

- Appart from Win/Mac/Linux, it works on Android and Raspberry Pi

- Tailored for TV (because XBMC)

- You can send "magnets" to it via Chrome (see FAQ in post)

- Leverages a better bittorrent library (enhancing the swarm healthiness)

Would it be very hard to make this work with MediaPortal? I know that the two packages started out quite similar but have forked rather drastically over time. I only ask because despite trying to change over to XBMC a number of times (almost every major revision) I've never been able to make it do what I need it to do and MePo has a much higher WAF when setup well.

XBMC is probably the biggest media centre software package in the world. It has a huge audience and is incredibly expandible via plug-ins.

care to share why? I've been using it for a couple years now.

Care to share why? I've always loved coding in object oriented programming languages.