Broadcast Machine: Publish your Video in Channels
by cman | Wed, 07/13/2005 - 00:12
The folks over at Participatory Culture are working on some really cool stuff. They are developing an application called Broadcast Machine that leverages BitTorrent to allow people to publish video streams online resulting in a TV-like viewing experience for the end user. Best of all, it is open source.
From the Broadcast Machine website:
"Broadcast Machine is software you install on your website to easily publish video files. It gives you the option of using torrent technology to reduce or eliminate bandwidth costs, even when you are posting high quality video to thousands of people. Broadcast Machine is free, open source software, and is designed for easy installation. It features an intuitive interface, integrated torrent creation, and flexible channel management. Broadcast Machine also creates a browsable archive of videos on your website. But the real purpose of the software is to be the perfect publishing tool for our video player that will be released in July-- Broadcast Machine creates channels that, when viewed in the player, give people a TV-like viewing experience."
Installation is very simple and involves no databases - just files. The development version is currently at Preview Release 10, and supports Creative Commons licenses.
There is a demo on the site.
Go Participatory Culture and Downhill Battle!
