Motivation Recently I found myself trying to watch an Ace Stream video with the URL format acestream://{channel_id} on my Mac and was overwhelmed by the installation requirements for any existing client. I looked around online and found some solutions [1] that work, but most of them required installing unnessesary, complicated, or closed source software on my machine.
While this is mostly personal preference, I know that there are likely others out there who would try to minimize this installation as well.