[development] very slow Drupalcon videos?

[Laura Scott]

This would necessitate some evangelizing and education regarding  
torrents in general (which I am not against). If we go this way, I'd  
be happy to draft up a "torrent tips" handbook page to point to  
background info links. I'd need some help collecting names/links of  
good clients -- my torrential experience is limited to Azureus/Vuze.

However, another consideration might be that some ISPs like Comcast  
and many universities are (rumored to be) blocking torrent packets  
(under the assumption that if it's a torrent, it *must* be illegal).

Laura

On Sep 28, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Robin Monks wrote:

> 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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> -- 
> Robin Monks
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