Monthly Archive for March, 2008

CBC joins Mininova, distributing TV show for free

Published
by
Niek
on March 27, 2008
in Mininova-related news
. 70 Comments

Hi all!

Good news: Canada’s public broadcaster CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) joined Mininova’s recently launched Content Distribution service in order to distribute the new TV Show Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister.

The show, which premiered last Sunday, will be published annualy on Mininova one day after the TV airtime. The copies are of high quality (720×486 XViD) and come without any DRM restrictions. The choice for BitTorrent as distribution protocol is obvious: the distribution costs are practically zero.

Interested in the show? Check out CBC’s user page or subscribe to their RSS feed. Make sure to download an episode and leave your comments.

For more information, check the coverage of TorrentFreak on this story.

We’re very much looking forward to other broadcasters following CBC’s example. Stay tuned for updates!

Video Streaming + Upcoming changes

Published
by
Erik
on March 19, 2008
in Mininova-related news
. 58 Comments

Hi all,

Here’s a small blog post to keep you all up to date on our latest developments:

Video streaming

SwarmPlayer

The coming weeks Mininova together with The Tribler team will be starting a closed beta for Tribler’s new video streaming software. The software is developed by the The Tribler team at the Technical University of Delft/Netherlands.

The first beta release of this software will be invitation-only for a small group of Mininova members. Because of various reasons it will only work with Featured torrents. Some statistics will be gathered by the application, but no personal information will be included in these reports. In addition, the application is open source so everybody can exactly see what is going on.

We are looking for people who would like to be in the first testing group who test the software, report suggestions and bugs you find. Please reply in this topic if you want to participate in this closed beta.

Upcoming changes

For people who are wondering what else we have been working on and what the future might hold. We are…

  • …still improving our funny-videos website Snotr
  • …working on some changes of the front-page to allow for better promotion of the featured torrents
  • …making Mininova faster by optimizing things like he source code, database and hardware
  • …thinking about improving the design of Mininova. This is actually a point were everyone can help by suggesting your improvements in this new sub-forum: Feature requests & Design suggestions

Thanks for your attention, and as always: stay tuned for updates!