[development] very slow Drupalcon videos?

[Tomas J. Fulopp]

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 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mfburdett at 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 at killesreiter.de
>     <mailto:gerhard at killesreiter.de>> wrote:
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>     > Steven Peck schrieb:
>     > > Isn't it called bit torrent? :)
>     >
>     > Does anybody have experience in setting these up? I've asked
>     OSUOSL and
>     > they have no experiecne with these things. Neither have I.
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     >         Gerhard
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> -- 
> Christopher P. Bradford
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