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| Author: | ahronzombi [ Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Bittorent XMLTV grabber |
hey wouldnt it save bandwidth costs if we had a alternative to schedules direct that used p2p. i know some hosting would still be involved with bittorent to run a tracker but i just wanted to bring up the idea to maybe inspire someone. 20$ is a great price for 1 year of eztv but id really like to see work on free alternatives. let me know if i can help anyone |
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| Author: | grante [ Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bittorent XMLTV grabber |
ahronzombi wrote: hey wouldnt it save bandwidth costs if we had a alternative to
schedules direct that used p2p. i know some hosting would still be involved with bittorent to run a tracker but i just wanted to bring up the idea to maybe inspire someone. 20$ is a great price for 1 year of eztv but id really like to see work on free alternatives. let me know if i can help anyone First, where are you going to get the data? If there was a free, redistributable source of data do you really think we'd all be paying for it? Second, am I going to have to download schedule data for every TV station and cable distributor in the US and then filter out the 99.999% of the downloaded stuff that I don't need? That sure wouldn't save bandwidth. As it works now, I only download a fraction of the data available for my area, so even if you seeded a separate file for each zip code, it would more than double the amount of data I'd have to download. Or, are you going to seed a different file (every day!) for every TV station and cable channel in the US? That would save bandwidth, but it would be a pretty large undertaking. |
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