Streaming video example

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+##### Streaming to an HTML5 video element?  Also simple!
+
+```js
+var WebTorrent = require('webtorrent')
+
+var client = new WebTorrent()
+
+client.download(magnet_uri, function (torrent) {
+  // Got torrent metadata!
+  console.log('Torrent info hash:', torrent.infoHash)
+
+  // Let's say the first file is a webm (vp8) or mp4 (h264) video...
+  var file = torrent.files[0]
+
+  // Create a video element
+  var video = document.createElement('video')
+  video.controls = true
+  document.body.appendChild(video)
+
+  // Stream the video into the video tag
+  file.createReadStream().pipe(video)
+})
+```
+
 ##### Browserify
 
 WebTorrent works great with [browserify](http://browserify.org/), an npm module that let's