XBMCtorrent: Torrent Streaming for XBMC - Paris Tech Talks

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1. XBMCTORRENT Torrent streaming for XBMC
2. HI • twitter, github: @steeve • freelance (always for hire) • pythonista (Celery, lz4) • go-ista, ruby-ista, clojure-ista, whatever-ista • wingsuiter
4. NETFLIX • Available in few locations • there are ways to circumvent this: Mediahint • Catalog is meh (seriously, lots of Direct to DVD titles) • HD quality isn’t very good (== sucks) • Silverlight (eww) • On the bright side, it’s cheap: $7/mo
5. HTTP STREAMING • 1channel, Icefilms • Quality sucks • No HD (sometimes 720p if you are lucky, still sucks) • Websites get busted, go down (Megaupload) • Slow/outdated sources • Catalog is okay
6. BITTORRENT • Huge catalog, everything is on BT • Decentralized nature: doesn’t get down/busted • It’s fast (thanks to uTP, caps my 30mbps) • Quality is A++ • 720p, 1080p, AC3, DTS, Dolby, Blu-Ray, <keyword> • It’s geeky
7. • Created in 2003 • ~1.9M installs • 52k likes, 28k followers • 450 contributors • Python addons • Runs on everything, high W.A.F. • Supported by the XBMC Foundation
8. XBMC + BITTORRENT = <3 ? • XBMC can stream files over HTTP • XBMC can read everything (seriously, VLC style) • XBMC has Python addons • BitTorrent doesn’t stream. feelsbadman.jpg
10. XBMCTORRENT • XBMCtorrent XBMC addon written in Python • torrent2http current torrent client written in Go • Exposes torrent data over HTTP • Uses libtorrent-rasterbar (C++), so it has everything • github.com/steeve/xbmctorrent • Released 6 weeks ago on XBMC HUB: 29 pages thread, 190 daily users (from 30 on Oct. 15th)
11. DEMO (all hail to the demo gods) ... it’s okay though, I have a video
12. XBMCTORRENT • Windows 32 bits / 64 bits • Linux 64 bits (32 bits soon) • Mac 64 bits • Raspberry Pi (fuck yeah) • $35 HTPC
13. XBMCTORRENT • Soon: Android • $60 TV dongles • Quad Core 1.6Ghz ARM • Quad Core GPU • 2GB DDR3 RAM • 8GB FLASH • Built-in USB (Host, OTG), Ethernet, Wi-Fi a/g/n
15. XBMCTORRENT + PLEX MEDIA SERVER • Best UPNP/DLNA server • Automatic Transcoding • Streams to virtually anything • Addons in Python (wee!!) • Translation layer XBMC API => Plex API
16. XBMCTORRENT + PLEX MEDIA SERVER
17. THANK YOU http://j.mp/xbmctorrent @XBMCtorrent facebook.com/xbmctorrent github.com/steeve/xbmctorrent