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https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/democracy/browser/tags/Miro-2.0.4/tv/portable/frontends/widgets/prefpanel.py#L287

Since many distributions don't have it in their repositories yet, you might want to grab the source and build it yourself.

democracy in svn runs fine on feisty

blog post:
http://www.getdemocracy.com/news/2007/04/feisty-su pport-on-the-way/
how to get/build from svn:
https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/demo cracy/wiki/GTKX11BuildDocs

[AC because having an account here would encourage me to post more]

This idea has been had before. There is already a free service that provides a simple and usually fast way to share and watch video torrents. Check out http://participatoryculture.org/ for a player and a broadcaster of your very own.

It doesn't support proxy yet : https://develop.participatoryculture.org/democracy /ticket/1165

Actually, the channel guide URL is currently setable, but only as an environment variable. The documentation for the API to use on your website to make it work with Democracy is at https://develop.participatoryculture.org/projects/ democracy/wiki/ChannelGuideToDtvApi

I believe the plans are to make the channel guide settable through the GUI. If nothing else, I think a gconf key is in order.

You can also submit your channels to the main channel guide. I'm not sure what our policy is on things like porn, but I'm positive that you definitely won't be filtered out for political reasons.

And one of the things to note is that the Participatory Culture Foundation is a non-profit. There's no profit margin for us to sell out to.

Our mission is to build an open and democratic television platform.

  Television is the defining medium of our culture. There's now an opportunity to create a television culture that is fluid, diverse, exciting, and beautiful. Built by people working together.

  The platform is open-source and built on open-standards. This matters because it keeps video flowing freely. When you lock people in to closed, proprietary services, you lose everything that makes the internet work.

  Television is moving online. Will it be the same narrow, top-down cultural stagnation that we see on traditional television? All the major media and computer companies are clamoring to control video online. If they succeed it will be a disaster.

  We don't have to spend years playing catch-up. Open-source and open- standards can lead this fight for the future of video online.

Have a look at the DTV project, also covered on Slashdot.

Those new platforms integrate digital video with RSS and BitTorrent for widespread distribution. The DTV UI is also well-adapted for easy browsing and viewing. And Broadcastmachine provides simple creation and distribution of content.

DTV and Broadcastmachine are open source software (mostly Python and PHP). Right now, they have a preliminary Macintosh version and are working on Windows. They need help with Linux.

Are there any companies like that and (more importantly) are they hiring? web developer wanted: http://participatoryculture.org/jobs/ not-for-profit, supports independent media, free and open source software, good technology.

http://participatoryculture.org/bm/ is somehow able to do that with torrents.
also not exactly what you asked.

with azuerus, if it's multiple files, you simply set a priority on the first file, and those chunks will come first (in the view files in the torrent section.)

It would be much more useable if that was included in the torrent seed file (possible?).

You can subscribe to video podcasts in iTunes, but I kind of prefer having a separate application to do it with...

The best one so far is DTV (mac-only beta right now). The biggest feature this has that iTunes doesn't have is the ability to receive the video podcasts in .torrent form initially, and automatically download the videos via bittorrent.

Unless iTunes provides some kind of automatic caching for the video files, having just a moderate amount of popularity could kill aspiring video podcasters.

Another app is FireANT, which without the bittorrent feature makes me hate it.

DTV also has a built-in directory to find video podcasts, which is pretty cool. They do a good job of making the process easy to use, although their beta is still a little wonky at times.

Hopefully this will encourage even greater participation in the DTV / Broadcast Machine projects. Broadcast Machine does all the RSS work for posting video and DTV is a f/oss client that mimics the iTunes interface. Democratized video is imminent.

I find windows MCE a curious choice... with plenty of good extentadble or open source 3rd party PVR software solutions out there. *Shrug*

Someone has pointed out movielink... beyond media has it integrated into it's frontend... I believe Meedio does or would have a plugin for it. Meedio has a ton of HTPC/home automation stuff that might be worth investigating fruther.

it's not hollywood, but creative common's licensed material of interest is Downhill Battle's Particpatory Culture DTV thingie

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Maybe BBC could use torrent-broadcasting systems like DTV?

>DTV http://participatoryculture.org/download.php

I did install the server, pretty easy, a few hickups getting it seeded from another torrent, will be nice to see their client, when it's on something other than mac (and when they actually release the source to sourceforge as promissed)

any torrent seed experts know if the seed can be configured to give priority to the start of the video? I know that can be done in the seed if it is multiple files. That is the only thing I need their client for on my pc.

Am I the only one who thinks that moving TV over to IP is an intresting idea. Either in sort of a pod casting distribution method or in a tradtional method of channels, or maybe both. DTV http://participatoryculture.org/download.php seems intresting but i havent tried it yet (im waiting for the Windows version).

Am I the only one who thinks that moving TV over to IP is an intresting idea. Either in sort of a pod casting distribution method or in a tradtional method of channels, or maybe both. DTV http://participatoryculture.org/download.php seems intresting but i havent tried it yet (im waiting for the Windows version).

there's Our Media ("We provide free storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches."). &if you want to host your own site that lets people upload tagged video and dist via bit torrent, there's BroadcastMachine.

You're only looking at half the picture, which is the viewer/client. The exciting part is the publishing component, i.e., the "broadcast machine".

Surely sorting the data is the job of the client program, RSS is just a way of delivering the information. I'd assume the Participatory Culture Foundation is going to have some way of sorting through the shows you subscribe to. Ways which currently exist include indexing the RSS message "Spotlight" or Longhorn search style or just using the existing HTML Meta Tag systems. (The former being IMO much more flexible and informative than anything Microsoft could come up with in code.)

The Downhill Battle/participatorypolitics.org guys are already doing this.

Broadcast Machine is a similar thing (which I'm sure has been mentioned on Slashdot before), but it's not live. I'm not really sure what the benefit of the live broadcast model is when the Internet can better support a video-on-demand model.

Check out the Paticipatory Culture Foundation's projects.

Not big and commercial, but maybe paired with MythTV or some other kind of box, it could take off... http://participatoryculture.org/

I still prefer the term "nichecasting" for this kind of idea (microcasting implies "small"), and it's particularly cool when you look at it from a Long Tail perspective. So if we can [n]cast for virtually no cost, all we need to do is create stuff for virutally no cost. RvB is still, I think, the best example of that kind project. Does anyone know of any other FOSE[ntertainment] out there?

http://www.ourmedia.org/ is interesting and
http://www.participatoryculture.org/ seems promissing.