[Reject.JS 2013] Astro - Bitford: A streaming BitTorrent client for Chrome

RejectJS 2013 - http://rejectjs.org - Berlin, September 12, 2013 Bitford: https://github.com/astro/bitford Talk description: "With Chrome Packaged Apps and Mozilla Open Web Apps, desktop apps can now be written in HTML & JS. Apart from cosmetical distinction, these apps gain a number of privileges over conventional Web apps. This talk focuses on the fileSystem and socket APIs for a polished attempt at bringing the Internet's best media distribution system back to the browser: Bitford, a BitTorrent client running as a Chrome Packaged App. Compared to other Chrome extensions, Bitford does not remote-control a native client behind the stages. It implements the standard BitTorrent wire protocol over TCP, storing data with the fileSystem API exposed by the browser, all in JavaScript. I will detail some practical techniques for processing binary data streams. Necessary information about BitTorrent will be provided. Then I am going to talk about ways to facilitate streaming to HTML5 media elements as soon as particular data is available and verified. That means: load a .torrent and start playback almost immediately!" License: For reuse of this video under a more permissive license please get in touch with us. The speakers retain the copyright for their performances. http://rejectjs.org - http://twitter.com/rejectjs