[vlmc-devel] TeamCollab patch for VLMC

[Hugo Beauzee-Luyssen]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:25 PM, mattbrun05 at gmail.com
<mattbrun05 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks all for your support! It's very encouraging :D
> We also look forward to integrate our patch in the main stream, and
> why not, maybe make some more improvements to the basic idea (see
> later).
>
> @Hugo: The irc guy is me, Matteo (ostix). About the video fetching I
> think you are right. We actually didn't implement it since we didn't
> have so much time, and we focused on proving that our idea was
> "doable". As I'll mention below, it's one of the improvements we
> already thought about that is missing in our implementation.
>
> @Ludovic: yep, libTorrent is used by the rTorrent BitTorrent client,
> but we used the libtorrent from rasterbar
> (http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/), which is behind at
> least Deluge and qTorrent clients. We used this library since it's
> multi-platform, written in C++, fast and quite easy to use, and one of
> our goals was to be cross-platform (that's also one of the reasons why
> we chose VLMC :) ). With this platform it is still possible to make
> both client and server. Moreover, it can be mainline DHT capable
> (that's one of the features behind the file distribution without
> trackers). So in theory it might be used to make the video
> distribution transparent to the user, but the implementation should be
> studied a little bit more than what we did...
>
> To make the things short, these are some of the big improvements we
> thought might be implemented in the future:
> - trying to understand how to better manage the conflict cases;
> - transparent multimedia files distribution implementing a
> client/server class in VLMC, thanks to libtorrent library;
> - increase version control systems support;
> - go further with our idea, trying to implement a real-time sharing
> system: XML project file distributed over a chat (i.e. XMPP) or P2P
> communication protocol, and multimedia files automatically shared
> through the internal implemented BitTorrent client/server, when VLMC
> recognises that the media library has changed (all this obviously
> transparent to the final user ;) ).
>
> Again thanks for your opinions! If you have anything else to tell us,
> just let us know :D
>
> Best regards,
> Matteo and Martin

Nothing else but "good luck" for the time being !
Naturally if you have any question regarding vlmc don't hesitate to
contact us again !

Best regards,


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Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen