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

[Chris Lahey]

Yes, I'm a curler now.  Still a beginner, but I'm working on it.

There's actually a number of clients that support RSS with bittorrent
links.  In particular, most bittorrent apps.  We just concentrate on
making a nicer UI for it.

And it's not a special URL.  It's an http url that links to a .torrent file.

ttyl,
   Chris

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> wrote:
> 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
>