<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-01-29 17:02 GMT+01:00 Rémi Denis-Courmont <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:remi@remlab.net" target="_blank">remi@remlab.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Le jeudi 29 janvier 2015, 16:03:58 Jonathan Calmels a écrit :<br>
<span class="">> This set of patches allows the streaming of torrent files and magnet links.<br>
> The module depends on the following library: libtorrent-rasterbar.<br>
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</span>I don´t think the benefits of this outweigh the bad press and the cost of carry<br>
a hot potato. This is very likely to get VLC banned in many places, and as a<br>
developer I would rather not have my name associated a tool that sports such<br>
feature.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well that's one point of view. I personally think that it's a great feature to add.</div><div>I don't see why VLC would get banned for the implementation of a new protocol.</div><div>Sure, the Bittorrent protocol is often known for its use in piracy but I don't blame say HTTP for serving illegal content.</div><div>Moreover there are some nice initiatives out there that would benefit from it (e.g <a href="http://kck.st/1wUW4gy">http://kck.st/1wUW4gy</a>).</div><div>Also, what do you mean exactly by the association of your name with this feature ?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Besides the Torrent protocol is optimized for downloading before playing.<br>
Sure, you can abuse the protocol to perform sequential live reading, but what<br>
is the point, over using HTTP then?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>HTTP was not designed to stream multimedia content either and Bittorrent is built with decentralization in mind.</div><div>Sure, it's not optimal and there are few tricks we could do to improve things, but tools like uTorrent have been doing that for years now (featuring VLC as a backend :) ).</div><div>I'm not saying it's perfect but it's worth considering ...</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
This is not very different from the ed2k plugin that was intently never merged.<br>
IMSNHO, this too is better left as a separate plugin. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
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Rémi Denis-Courmont<br>
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