[vlc-devel] [Videolan-devel] Bittorrent VoD

[Marijn Swenne]

Hi,

2009/12/22 Juan Cristóbal Olivares <cristobal at cxnet.cl>:
> 2009/12/22 Rémi Denis-Courmont <rem at videolan.org>
>>
>>        Hello,
>>
>> Le mardi 22 décembre 2009, Marijn Swenne a écrit :
>> > I'm looking into making a Bittorrent VoD integration for VLC. So in
>> > other words, being able to open a BT metafile in VLC as you would a
>> > HTTP file and start viewing it before the whole file is downloaded.
>> > Obviously you'de need a BT client that supports VoD. I was looking
>> > into using http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/ which has a
>> > BSD-license and modifying it to become a VoD client.
>>
>> In my understanding, the BitTorrent protocol is fundamentally
>> incompatible with video on demand. VoD requires data to be fetched
>> linearly. BitTorrent fetches file chunks starting from the scarcest to
>> the most commonly available. This enables users to trade chunks, thus
>> maximizing the bandwidth usage. But then, you need to fetch the
>> complete video file before you can play it with a media player. Then,
>> VLC will be just worse than a dedicated BitTorrent client.
>>
> AFAIK, there's a variant for streaming (.tstream files). Take a look:
> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/27/eztv-allows-bittorrent-streaming/

Thanks, they make use of Tribler, which is the best effort for P2P
streaming up untill now. Except that it's not compatible with BT. I
was aiming for an implementation that is compatible with mainline BT.

>>
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>> Rémi Denis-Courmont
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