Sounds like providing the videos (or any larger files) using the
bittorrent is the most advantageous approach. Why not using it since
Drupal already has a very good module developed for it?
Tomas
Christopher Bradford wrote:
Hello,
The bittorrent module has an integrated tracker and supports the
web-seeding extension. This means two things:
a) The tracker will not have to be run from the command line
b) Should no seeds be available the torrent clients would pull data
from the server over HTTP (should the client support it)
There are two quasi-standards for webseeding (Azureus supporting both).
One is the BitTornado spec, which uses a PHP file to retrieve the
necessary bytes from the file thus allowing fine grain access control
and the ability to throttle. Since it sounds as though the videos would
be available to download directly from the server anyway, I would go
with the GetRight implementation which uses HTTP byte ranges to query
the server directly, eliminating the "middle-man" PHP file, but it
loses the access control.
The documentation for the module is a bit lacking at the moment, but
this should be fixed shortly.
~Chris
On 9/28/07, mark burdett <
mfburdett@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
for bittorrent you just need a tracker, which you can run from the
command-line on a server, and then a .torrent file for each video (to
generate the torrent file you just need the video file itself and the
tracker url, and pass that into e.g. maketorrent-console).
I'm not particularly motivated to create the torrents at the moment
since download time for a video seems to be ~30 minutes, or shorter
than the video itself.
but at least for next time, it would be a good idea to post .torrent
files simultaneously with the videos..
--mark
On 9/28/07, Gerhard Killesreiter <gerhard@killesreiter.de>
wrote:
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> Does anybody have experience in setting these up? I've asked
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> they have no experiecne with these things. Neither have I.
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> Cheers,
> Gerhard
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Christopher P. Bradford