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- keitaro1984, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I'm really excited about the idea of using BitTorrent for streaming media. And I've been waiting for a Unix version of uTorrent since I first switched to my Mac back in May. What's great is, the more popular BitTorrent gets the better the download speeds. I always thought that was ironic.
- NoOneButMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9uTorrent is HEAVILY integrated into the w32 API, so you'll be waiting for the OS X and Linux rewrite's of uTorrent for awhile. And thats what will have to be done - rewrite a majority of the code to work with Cocoa/GTK.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I wish you people would check the ***** links before posting them. Oh, wait.. but then someone might beat you to posting it.. oh, wait, who cares.
403 Forbidden. - ccheath, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10BT won't necessarily work with streaming (because you can't get the file in order), but it would work well to distribute the content quickly between users of a system (like the xbox360 or appleTV)
I'm not sure why this concept hasn't caught on quicker with major content distributors... oh well - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8***** them then!
You DON'T offer your customers an all you can eat service if you don't want to lay on the pipes and hardware to let them do it! If its eating into their margins then they need to charge more, not throttle data simply because they're cheap-ass bastards who won't pay for proper infrastructure!!
ISPs really piss me off with this kind of thing.
I pay my $X/month for Y-speed and Z-download limit, if the ISP is unwilling to let me use my connection in whatever way I see fit within the framework of what connection I pay for then they shouldn't offer such plans, or in the least, include a statement like "We will cut your bandwidth to next to 0 if we want to", lets see how many new subscribers they get then. - cbergeron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Didn't he also write Dracula?
- RawShark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"ISPs have historically thought that all P2P traffic is illegal, which most definitely is not the case today."
ISP's also (perhaps rightly) claim that P2P eats up their operating cost and cuts into their profit margin.
That is what mine told me when they told me to quite file sharing and throttled my upload speed down. I am glad to hear that they are becoming more amenable to the idea of file sharing. Mine told me that the contract more or less states that they aren't selling bandwidth that I can eat around the clock, they were selling the convenience of high speed for the limited time that I am directly in front of the computer. Whatever.
The best deals are in Japan for bandwidth. - hexydes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7He means that they should make it so that the torrent compresses temporally.
- MrDarkSim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I want to leech your torrents!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Great. I've been wanting something to compress my temporals for some time now!
- Jassman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8OMG they interviewed the CREATOR of Bit Torrent everybody panic!!!
Don't click on stories that you don't care about.
Idiot. - And0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I miss the days of the original BitTorrent client opening pop-up pages with Bram sporting a lovely leather jacket and dashing ponytail, all while begging for donations.
- noerrorsfound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I, for one, welcome our BitTorrent co-founding overlords.
- bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@cceath
Although the same principle has been utilized for well over sometime now.
Check out stuff like ppstream, tvants and sopcast. - skater2968, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Exquisitely written interview on the part of torrentfreak. I'm glad to see that good content like that is still available on the Internet. This cleared up a lot of question's I had regarding BT.
- geodescent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Temporal compression
Certain CODECs use an additional type of compression that makes the assumption that frames that are next to each other look very similar. The first frame is spatially digitized in its entirety. For the next frame, only the information that has changed is digitized. During playback, the computer must create the second frame.
The frames that are digitized in their entirety are called key frames. The rate at which key frames are captured can be set in some CODECs. Increasing the number of key frames used increases the quality of the picture, but increases the movie file size. QuickTime will automatically generate a key frame any time more then 90% of the picture information changes. - noerrorsfound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@keitaro1984
It is possible to run µTorrent under Wine and Cedega. According to µTorrent's site, it works "very well" in Wine, although there are a few issues in Cedega. The creators of µTorrent say a GNU/Linux and Mac OS X port are planned for the future. - reconflux, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Thank you for finally cutting the ponytail! Welcome to the 21st century.
- AustinLucas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2care to explain?
- tony134340, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2NoOneButMe: Not sure about OSX but uTorrent works great under Wine. But still, glad to hear about them wanting to do a native port.
- ahthrift, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2WTF at some of the previous comments about there being no good clients for Linux. Transmission is a GREAT client for GTK and an even better one for KDE is ktorrent.
Ktorrent performs as well as uTorrent/Azuereus on speeds. - noerrorsfound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Okay, I admit my previous comment was lame.
You were going to mod it down anyway but I just wanted to let you know that I've realized my stupidity. If there was a delete button, that comment would be gone already. - ashwinmudigonda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3they should adapt the torrent to do temporal compression.
- TheLastGnu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3ponytails own...
- crazybrit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'd love a native port of uTorrent. I've been holding off on downloading stuff on Linux because there aren't really any good clients that run natively, and I heard that you can get kicked off private trackers for using them.
- benoror, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"co-founder if BitTorrent Inc."
- DataWraith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I guess what he means is that BitTorrent should compress files on the fly.
For example, .iso-files usually can be compressed quite a bit, but if you seed a compressed archive ("example.iso.rar") only few will bother to keep the rar-file around for seeding purposes. So if BitTorrent would compress files on the fly, that might save bandwidth and speed up transmission.
eMule does it that way, but I doubt it would be as easy to do with BitTorrent. - gnarbuckets, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Further proof for my theory that if your last name is Cohen, you're inherently really really ridiculously smart.
- jman8888, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2I for one welcome bittorent
- ml7667, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2http://www.duggmirror.com
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