- <title>Using VLC to stream bittorrent sources</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_VLC_to_stream_bittorrent_sources.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>A few days ago, a new major version of
-<a href="https://www.videolan.org/">VLC</a> was announced, and I
-decided to check out if it now supported streaming over
-<a href="http://bittorrent.org/">bittorrent</a> and
-<a href="https://webtorrent.io">webtorrent</a>. Bittorrent is one of
-the most efficient ways to distribute large files on the Internet, and
-Webtorrent is a variant of Bittorrent using
-<a href="https://webrtc.org">WebRTC</a> as its transport channel,
-allowing web pages to stream and share files using the same technique.
-The network protocols are similar but not identical, so a client
-supporting one of them can not talk to a client supporting the other.
-I was a bit surprised with what I discovered when I started to look.
-Looking at
-<a href="https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html">the release
-notes</a> did not help answering this question, so I started searching
-the web. I found several news articles from 2013, most of them
-tracing the news from Torrentfreak
-("<a href=https://torrentfreak.com/open-source-giant-vlc-mulls-bittorrent-support-130211/">Open
-Source Giant VLC Mulls BitTorrent Streaming Support</a>"), about a
-initiative to pay someone to create a VLC patch for bittorrent
-support. To figure out what happend with this initiative, I headed
-over to the #videolan IRC channel and asked if there were some bug or
-feature request tickets tracking such feature. I got an answer from
-lead developer Jean-Babtiste Kempf, telling me that there was a patch
-but neither he nor anyone else knew where it was. So I searched a bit
-more, and came across an independent
-<a href="https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent">VLC plugin to add
-bittorrent support</a>, created by Johan Gunnarsson in 2016/2017.
-Again according to Jean-Babtiste, this is not the patch he was talking
-about.</p>
-
-<p>Anyway, to test the plugin, I made a working Debian package from
-the git repository, with some modifications. After installing this
-package, I could stream videos from
-<a href="https://www.archive.org/">The Internet Archive</a> using VLC
-commands like this:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-vlc https://archive.org/download/LoveNest/LoveNest_archive.torrent
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>The plugin is supposed to handle magnet links too, but since The
-Internet Archive do not have magnet links and I did not want to spend
-time tracking down another source, I have not tested it. It can take
-quite a while before the video start playing without any indication of
-what is going on from VLC. It took 10-20 seconds when I measured it.
-Some times the plugin seem unable to find the correct video file to
-play, and show the metadata XML file name in the VLC status line. I
-have no idea why.</p>
-
-<p>I have created a <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/890360">request for
-a new package in Debian (RFP)</a> and
-<a href="https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/1">asked if
-the upstream author is willing to help make this happen</a>. Now we
-wait to see what come out of this. I do not want to maintain a
-package that is not maintained upstream, nor do I really have time to
-maintain more packages myself, so I might leave it at this. But I
-really hope someone step up to do the packaging, and hope upstream is
-still maintaining the source. If you want to help, please update the
-RFP request or the upstream issue.</p>
-
-<p>I have not found any traces of webtorrent support for VLC.</p>
+ <title>Blockchain and IoT articles accepted into Records Management Journal</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Blockchain_and_IoT_articles_accepted_into_Records_Management_Journal.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Blockchain_and_IoT_articles_accepted_into_Records_Management_Journal.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 09:05:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>On Tuesday, two scietific articles we have been working on for a
+while, was finally accepted for publication into
+<a href="https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0956-5698">Records
+Management Journal</a>. Still waiting for the assigned DOI urls to
+start working, but you can have a look at the LaTeX originals here.</p>
+
+<p>The first article is
+"<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2020-02-25-rmj-iot-record-keeping.pdf">A
+record-keeping approach to managing IoT-data for government
+agencies</a>" (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0050">DOI
+10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0050<a/>) by Thomas Sødring, Petter Reinholdtsen
+and David Massey, and sketches some approaches for storing measurement
+data (aka Internet of Things sensor data) in a archive, thus providing
+a well defined mechanism for screening and deletion of the information </p>
+
+<p>The second article is
+"<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2020-02-25-rmj-block-chain-record-keeping.pdf">Publishing
+and using record-keeping structural information in a blockchain</a>"
+(<a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0056">DOI
+10.1108/RMJ-09-2019-0056</a>) by Thomas Sødring, Petter Reinholdtsen
+and Svein Ølnes, where we describe a way for third parties to validate
+authenticity and thus improve trust in the records kept in a
+archive.</p>