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

[Christopher Blizzard]

On Apr 3, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>
>> On Apr 2, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>>
>>> Does Miro actually make use of BitTorrent to *distribute* video,  
>>> or does it just figure out how to download *from* BitTorrent?
>>
>> Check with willg for the right person to ask.  But their goal is  
>> for distribution as well as downloading.  Every Miro client is a  
>> bittorrent client.
>
> Clearly the answer here is for me/others to get Miro running on my/ 
> y'alls systems (somehow) and see how it might work in practice.
>
> Any idea how far out gstreamer support is?

There are comments from Dean in my blog about it:

http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=346

Sounds like the code is in there and it's a pref switch.  No idea how  
stable/good it is, though.

--Chris