[development] very slow Drupalcon videos?

[Robin Monks]

With webseeding, it would be ideal.

Robin

On 9/28/07, Tomas J. Fulopp <tomi at vacilando.org> wrote:
>
>  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> 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> 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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