[mythtv-users] Zap2It - isn't this a two part problem?

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Sat Jun 23 07:16:10 UTC 2007


> > However, I'm wondering about the distribution problem.  NNTP seems  
> > to be the direction the conversation is heading.  What about  
> > BitTorrent? Perhaps a torrent for each service provider... i.e.,  
> > one for Bell ExpressVu, Direct, whatever the various carriers are.

BitTorrent is meant for manually downloading very large files.  What's
needed here is a way to automatically distribute small files. 
BitTorrent really isn't a good fit.  Just the overhead of talking to a
tracker and finding peers would probably take longer than downloading
the whole file.


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