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Monday, October 19, 2009

New video player

If you have already tried video streaming via bitlet, you might be interested in this post as well. If you haven't yet, well, this is the time!

A few weeks ago we silently released a new version of our video player, which leverages the new HTML 5 video tag supported by the most recent browsers (such as Firefox 3.5+). This should, eventually, result in a better experience for you.

You can give it a try it by selecting the links underneath each thumbnail in the video section.
As usual, feedback is welcome.

Have fun!

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5 Comments:

Blogger Hannes said...

It appears it's just direct links to ogv-files, not torrents.

October 20, 2009 10:48 AM  
Blogger Alessandro Bahgat said...

That's because the applet works in a slightly different way: it still retrieves the video via bittorrent (downloading and seeding at the same time), but it makes it available to the browser as a video stream on your local machine.

October 20, 2009 11:22 AM  
Blogger Hannes said...

So what does this mean? That the server providing the ogv-file downloads through bittorrent and the end user just stream everything from that server?

October 20, 2009 12:23 PM  
Blogger Hannes said...

Oh, now I see. For example http://s3.amazonaws.com/ttv/TheMusicBoy.ogv?torrent provides a torrent file.

October 20, 2009 12:28 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks because it is the useful fact.

November 23, 2009 9:57 PM  

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