Fedora TV, the video quandary, and a request for advice (fwd)

[Luis Villa]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
>  So help me understand, someone who uses Miro:
>
>  Does Miro actually make use of BitTorrent to *distribute* video, or does it
> just figure out how to download *from* BitTorrent?
>
>  Something that combines RSS and BitTorrent seems potentially awesome -- but
> frankly, I'm still not sure how Miro works.

As I understand it, the miro RSS feed contains torrent:// links where
the average RSS feed contains http://. So each client is getting
notified of new episodes via rss, and then pulling those episodes via
torrent. Makes it hard to use any client other than miro with the
content, unfortunately.

I've cc'd Chris Lahey, who I hope can clarify/correct me (he's with
Miro, ex-Ximian, still rocking. And apparently curling?)

Luis