Category: Streaming and Multi-Media

BitTorrent based distribution services under fire


MPAA to serve lawsuits on BitTorrent servers | The Register
The title is a bit misleading. These aren’t BitTorrent servers but websites hosting Torrents to illegal (copyrighted) material. It is good news that the MPAA is differentiating the technology used from the content. In some strange twisted way I think that this will be a boost for independent media bittorrent distribution as the popular content just won’t be available. Perhaps people might even open their eyes.

AOL’s A/V Search

Singingfish – the audio/video search engine
I think I have linked to this in the past but in light of Yahoo’s new video search, I figured I should mention it again. Been around a while but they recently did a relaunch. I like the ability to see the recent searches and the most popular searches. Seems people are searching for standard TV like content still.. Perhaps this will change over time…?

Phasors Built My Hot Rod

NIME documentary, ‘Phasors Built My Hot Rod” Fall 2003
NIME, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, is a class at ITP taught by Gideon D’Arcangelo. NIME2 is an offshoot of people from that class and anyone else that is interested. They have been playing individually and as a group around world. Evan did a great documentary about some of the instruments, performances and the concepts of NIME in general.

Archive.org – Movies

Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
Everything from the Prelinger Archives to Open Source Movies (created and uploaded by the community).
From the site:
About the Movie Archive
This collection is free and open for everyone to use.
Our goal in digitizing these movies and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival films.
By providing near-unrestricted access to these films, we hope to encourage widespread use of moving images in new contexts by people who might not have used them before.

Linksys WVC11B Redux

In an earlier post here and on unmediated I talked about how I hoped that Linksys WVC11B and WVC54G wireless cameras that claim MPEG-4 support lived up to their promises.

Well, I was given one as a gift and sadly out of the box they don’t support true MPEG-4 streaming. What they have is an Active X control that displays some variant of Microsoft’s MPEG-4 codec. After doing some port scans, as suggested in the comments of one of the posts, I can confirm that they do not have any network services running other than httpd (port 80). Also strange is that I am unable to view the streams from Windows Media Player on the Mac or PC but I am able to view the stream via mPlayer on the Mac.. Otherwise, IE on the PC is the only other way to view the streams (no Mac support for the ActiveX control).

Thankfully the firmware is open source! Let the hacking begin!