<div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/22 Rémi Denis-Courmont <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rem@videolan.org">rem@videolan.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello,<br>
<br>
Le mardi 22 décembre 2009, Marijn Swenne a écrit :<br>
> I'm looking into making a Bittorrent VoD integration for VLC. So in<br>
> other words, being able to open a BT metafile in VLC as you would a<br>
> HTTP file and start viewing it before the whole file is downloaded.<br>
> Obviously you'de need a BT client that supports VoD. I was looking<br>
> into using <a href="http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/" target="_blank">http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/</a> which has a<br>
> BSD-license and modifying it to become a VoD client.<br>
<br>
In my understanding, the BitTorrent protocol is fundamentally<br>
incompatible with video on demand. VoD requires data to be fetched<br>
linearly. BitTorrent fetches file chunks starting from the scarcest to<br>
the most commonly available. This enables users to trade chunks, thus<br>
maximizing the bandwidth usage. But then, you need to fetch the<br>
complete video file before you can play it with a media player. Then,<br>
VLC will be just worse than a dedicated BitTorrent client.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div>AFAIK, there's a variant for streaming (.tstream files). Take a look:</div><div><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/27/eztv-allows-bittorrent-streaming/">http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/27/eztv-allows-bittorrent-streaming/</a> </div>
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Rémi Denis-Courmont<br>
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