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+       <item>
+               <title>Web browser integration of VLC with Bittorrent support</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_browser_integration_of_VLC_with_Bittorrent_support.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_browser_integration_of_VLC_with_Bittorrent_support.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2018 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Bittorrent is as far as I know, currently the most efficient way to
+distribute content on the Internet.  It is used all by all sorts of
+content providers, from national TV stations like
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt;, Linux distributors like
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, and of course the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/&quot;&gt;Internet archive&lt;/A&gt;.
+
+&lt;p&gt;Almost a month ago
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc-plugin-bittorrent&quot;&gt;a new
+package adding Bittorrent support to VLC&lt;/a&gt; became available in
+Debian testing and unstable.  To test it, simply install it like
+this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+apt install vlc-plugin-bittorrent
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Since the plugin was made available for the first time in Debian,
+several improvements have been made to it.  In version 2.2-4, now
+available in both testing and unstable, a desktop file is provided to
+teach browsers to start VLC when the user click on torrent files or
+magnet links.  The last part is thanks to me finally understanding
+what the strange x-scheme-handler style MIME types in desktop files
+are used for.  By adding x-scheme-handler/magnet to the MimeType entry
+in the desktop file, at least the browsers Firefox and Chromium will
+suggest to start VLC when selecting a magnet URI on a web page.  The
+end result is that now, with the plugin installed in Buster og Sid,
+one can visit any
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft1080p&quot;&gt;Internet
+Archive page with movies&lt;/a&gt; using a web browser and click on the
+torrent link to start streaming the movie.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Note, there is still some misfeatures in the plugin.  One is the
+fact that it will hang and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/13&quot;&gt;block VLC
+from exiting until the torrent streaming starts&lt;/a&gt;.  Another is the
+fact that it
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/9&quot;&gt;will pick
+and play a random file in a multi file torrent&lt;/a&gt;.  This is not
+always the video file you want.  Combined with the first it can be a
+bit hard to get the video streaming going.  But when it work, it seem
+to do a good job.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For the Debian packaging, I would love to find a good way to test
+if the plugin work with VLC using autopkgtest.  I tried, but do not
+know enough of the inner workings of VLC to get it working.  For now
+the autopkgtest script is only checking if the .so file was
+successfully loaded by VLC.  If you have any suggestions, please
+submit a patch to the Debian bug tracking system.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       

        <item>
                <title>Release 0.2 of free software archive system Nikita announced</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_2_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html</link>
        <item>
                <title>Release 0.2 of free software archive system Nikita announced</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_2_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html</link>


@@ -583,76 +645,6 @@ Is there an alternative?  I&#39;m not interested in giving money to people
 requiring me to accept &quot;privacy terms&quot; to allow myself to measure my
 own health.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 requiring me to accept &quot;privacy terms&quot; to allow myself to measure my
 own health.&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
-&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Sharing images with friends and family using RSS and EXIF/XMP metadata</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sharing_images_with_friends_and_family_using_RSS_and_EXIF_XMP_metadata.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sharing_images_with_friends_and_family_using_RSS_and_EXIF_XMP_metadata.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;For a while now, I have looked for a sensible way to share images
-with my family using a self hosted solution, as it is unacceptable to
-place images from my personal life under the control of strangers
-working for data hoarders like Google or Dropbox.  The last few days I
-have drafted an approach that might work out, and I would like to
-share it with you.  I would like to publish images on a server under
-my control, and point some Internet connected display units using some
-free and open standard to the images I published.  As my primary
-language is not limited to ASCII, I need to store metadata using
-UTF-8.  Many years ago, I hoped to find a digital photo frame capable
-of reading a RSS feed with image references (aka using the
-&amp;lt;enclosure&amp;gt; RSS tag), but was unable to find a current supplier
-of such frames.  In the end I gave up that approach.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Some months ago, I discovered that
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/&quot;&gt;XScreensaver&lt;/a&gt; is able to
-read images from a RSS feed, and used it to set up a screen saver on
-my home info screen, showing images from the Daily images feed from
-NASA.  This proved to work well.  More recently I discovered that
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://kodi.tv&quot;&gt;Kodi&lt;/a&gt; (both using
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.openelec.tv/&quot;&gt;OpenELEC&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://libreelec.tv&quot;&gt;LibreELEC&lt;/a&gt;) provide the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/grinsted/script.screensaver.feedreader&quot;&gt;Feedreader&lt;/a&gt;
-screen saver capable of reading a RSS feed with images and news.  For
-fun, I used it this summer to test Kodi on my parents TV by hooking up
-a Raspberry PI unit with LibreELEC, and wanted to provide them with a
-screen saver showing selected pictures from my selection.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Armed with motivation and a test photo frame, I set out to generate
-a RSS feed for the Kodi instance.  I adjusted my &lt;a
-href=&quot;https://freedombox.org/&quot;&gt;Freedombox&lt;/a&gt; instance, created
-/var/www/html/privatepictures/, wrote a small Perl script to extract
-title and description metadata from the photo files and generate the
-RSS file.  I ended up using Perl instead of python, as the
-libimage-exiftool-perl Debian package seemed to handle the EXIF/XMP
-tags I ended up using, while python3-exif did not.  The relevant EXIF
-tags only support ASCII, so I had to find better alternatives.  XMP
-seem to have the support I need.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I am a bit unsure which EXIF/XMP tags to use, as I would like to
-use tags that can be easily added/updated using normal free software
-photo managing software.  I ended up using the tags set using this
-exiftool command, as these tags can also be set using digiKam:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-exiftool -headline=&#39;The RSS image title&#39; \
-  -description=&#39;The RSS image description.&#39; \
-  -subject+=for-family photo.jpeg
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I initially tried the &quot;-title&quot; and &quot;keyword&quot; tags, but they were
-invisible in digiKam, so I changed to &quot;-headline&quot; and &quot;-subject&quot;.  I
-use the keyword/subject &#39;for-family&#39; to flag that the photo should be
-shared with my family.  Images with this keyword set are located and
-copied into my Freedombox for the RSS generating script to find.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Are there better ways to do this?  Get in touch if you have better
-suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;
-

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