Wikimedia Cooperation: Swift

Trial Website

• Please visit  http://swarmplayer.p2p-next.org/3000/ for rc3 software and test links.

TODO

• Expand mwEmbed such that:

  if (typeof tswiftTransport != 'undefined')
  {
           // contact url2torrent.p2p-next.org
           // generate <video> <source> element based on 'swift' key
           // in JSON reply
  }
  if (typeof swarmTransport != 'undefined')
  {
           // contact normal url2torrent, etc.
  }
  

• Autoseed more?
• More permanent solution to 99% bug = fuzzy len.
• Good quality video of Swift-on-Android
• Good quality video of Swift-on-iPad
• Update 3000 website with Swift enabled Sintel Wikipedia page.
• Watch seeder.log growth

(* Report bug: upload.wikipedia.org returns 200 on invalid Range request (> actual content-length), not 416)

Known Issues

• Seeking is currently not supported. The Swift HTTP gateway presently doesn't handle/accept HTTP range requests. Video controls do allow seeking, but that doesn't work well. Seeking without range requests not properly supported in FF? I also cannot find a way to disable seek at the GUI for the default firefox controls :-(

DONE

• HTTP fallback implemented in XPI's JavaScript?:
  • Fallback to 2nd <source> if swift.exe no start or no data (swift exits).
  • Fallback to HTTP URL if swift.exe delivered data.
• Setup own url2torrent on  http://url2torrent.p2p-next.org that generates tswift:// URLs in 'swift' response field.
• Made trial code independent of normal SwarmPlayer, i.e. tswift:// and tswift@…
• Fix for Linux not commencing playback (=rc2)
• swift.exe as Windows app, not Console
• Turn off autoswiftization for other videos, or set failover time to shorter (currently 5 s)
• Logging Mac version

Software

•  .xpi code
•  Arno's swift code (this is currently in the closed project repos, open stuff via www.libswift.org.)
•  url2torrent code tweaked for trial

• Please visit  http://swarmplayer.p2p-next.org/3000/ for binaries.

OLD

Test pages

• Visit  http://wikipedia.p2p-next.org/swift/sintel.html for an end-to-end test using url2torrent.p2p-next.org. (updated not to autogenerate a new page, just inline a new video element)
•  Classic BBC weather man
•  Episode from "330 Squadron" from NRT
•  Sintel 2K (buggy, swift stalls on first play)

Links

•  P2P-Next internal page on M36 trial