Feature requests

[mysoogal]

i'm user of HFS great little video server,   

i have one request, can you please add support for http user peering something like tiny CDN to cut the bandwidth and allow my users to share their bandwidth over http.

you already have HFS server, so next mission maybe should be small client which distributes the same file to all other connected peers connected to HFS server. i hope this can be done it will be really interesting to have this feature for everybody.

 

i've done little research for opensource code which maybe you can use for the client and little change in HFS for this to work together.


http://sourceforge.net/projects/distvidsys/
DVS (Distributed Video System) is an open source project with all necessary tools (servers, monitors, etc) for the creation of a Content Distribution Network (CDN) with live video and video on demand streaming


Distributed Videostreaming
Peer-to-Peer Videostreaming System. A normal p2p client can only download the file by using http or ftp. This System uses streaming (RTP) so that you can watch the video during the download.

something like Distributed Video System over http with |HFS 

there is also this old cdn over http open source project called dijjer.org right now its dying maybe should be added to HFS ?

also bittorrent but no streamming support over http ? :O no idea

[rejetto]

welcome!
it doesn't seem to be quick to make, i don't plan to work on it at the moment.

And maybe this site provides what you need with no effort: www.coralcdn.org

[mysoogal]

yeah i know this edu project, i believe its based on a cache system and web based. not really a true cdn.

i hope in the near future a cdn over http can be added. 

havn't checked hfs that much, but if its open source, i might ask some other developers to maybe add cdn support, just like what bittorrent is doing with the DNA client tool 

[TSG]

I have stated this before but when it comes to media one thing HFS is missing is a UPnP Media Server. It is probably on the to-do... This would allow HFS to stream to many devices running on the technology within a home network. Consoles, Mobile Phones, PDA's... Media Centers... anything that has the capability. It probably is on the to-do and I wish I had the programming experience to work on such things, but I don't so I must be patient I think it would require an unprotected folder, with access and visibility only via UPnP, this folder would then be broadcast through the LAN to all devices via the technology. For the time being I am running a secondary server on my system for my consoles.