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Add Bittorrent support to VLC video player (play-as-you-download)
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  • Posted: Tue, Feb 05, 2013
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VLC is an open, source, cross-platform video player that is one of the world's most downloaded applications:   [obscured]   . Bittorrent is the most popular p2p file transfer protocol.

The deliverable for this project is working patch for VLC that lets a user open a torrent file or "magnet link" in VLC, and start watching any media files within VLC after a minimal delay.

In other words, parts of the file that are close to the VLC playhead position should be prioritized for download, so that playback can begin before the entire download has completed.

A "buffering" delay of several minutes is acceptable, so long as: the user is informed of the delay (with an estimated countdown); playback will usually continue uninterrupted once it begins; and playback can begin at least 10x sooner than waiting for the entire file to download (e.g. in 5 minutes where the file would take 50 minutes to download).

The leading open source Bittorrent library already supports p...

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C++
Job ID: 37545182
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Volodymyr S
 Ukraine  |  
Sponsored Proposal
PLVision is an outsourcing company with over 7 years of experience in software engineering of embedded systems, telecommunication and networking....
Skills: C++, C, Python, Embedded Systems
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Bid ID: 38155868  |  Submitted: Feb 21, 2013 12:55 ET 
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Dan Nissenbaum      
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 United States  |  
Sponsored Proposal
I have 20 years of C++, Java, and PHP experience, and a PhD in computational physics. I do my work in an absurdly detail-oriented, communicative,...
Skills: C++, Algorithms, Java, PHP, Network Programming
10
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 5.0   |  $31,028 Earnings   |  7 Jobs
Bid ID: 37592901  |  Submitted: Feb 6, 2013 12:26 ET 
Proposal SEALED

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 Russia
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Bid ID: 41153975  |  Submitted: May 5, 2013 23:24 ET 
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A Abraham
 Austria
I DONT GIVE UP TILL THE PROJECT SUCCEEDS !
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Bid ID: 40015505  |  Submitted: Apr 8, 2013 05:55 ET 
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 Russia  |  
13+ years on Elance, 16+ years in software development industry. HireRussians provides safe outsourcing services, secure processes, and top...
Skills: C#, XML, PHP, iPhone App Development, ASP.NET
18
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 4.9   |  $1,333,259 Earnings   |  107 Jobs   |  15 verified credential(s)
Bid ID: 38585639  |  Submitted: Mar 4, 2013 12:16 ET 
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Aysen D.
 Turkey  |  
I mainly code in Delphi and C,C ++. I'm expert on SQL Databases. I also code in Java, VB and PHP. More than 16 years experience in Delphi. More...
Skills: Delphi XE2, Delphi2010, MS SQL SERVER, Data Modeling
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Bid ID: 38502189  |  Submitted: Mar 2, 2013 01:02 ET 
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Srinivasan S.
 India  |  
Hi I am Srinivasan S V Saripalli with rich 14+ years of good real-time experience developing Client/Server Application for Windows Desktop as well...
Skills: C++, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, System Programming
1
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Bid ID: 38488805  |  Submitted: Mar 1, 2013 14:33 ET 
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Max Khon
 Russia  |  
Skills: Firewall, Linux System Administration, System Programming, Unix...
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 0.0   |  $0 Earnings   |  0 Jobs
Bid ID: 38138291  |  Submitted: Feb 21, 2013 04:42 ET 
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Sam R.
 Cambodia  |  
I have some experience in software development for more 10 years. My favorite subjects are Linux, C/C++, Java, PHP, C# and so on. I am a team...
Skills: Linux System Administration, C++, Unix, Embedded Systems, Java...
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Bid ID: 38129903  |  Submitted: Feb 21, 2013 00:10 ET 
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GoalBit Solutions
 Uruguay  |  
Nowadays GoalBit-Solutions provides customized solutions to any organization that is looking to deploy their own dedicated video delivery platform...
Skills: Linux System Administration, MySQL Administration, C++
1
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 0.0   |  $0 Earnings   |  0 Jobs
Bid ID: 37933500  |  Submitted: Feb 15, 2013 17:08 ET 
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David Xanatos
 Austria  |  
Skills: 15 years in C++ programming
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Bid ID: 37765684  |  Submitted: Feb 11, 2013 16:25 ET 
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Igor K.
 United States  |  
INVITED
10+ years experience designing, writing and supporting customer oriented software. Strong background in porting application between different...
Skills: Perl, C++, C, SQL Programming, Linux System Administration
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 0.0   |  $0 Earnings   |  0 Jobs
Bid ID: 37684188  |  Submitted: Feb 8, 2013 22:34 ET 
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Ota M.
 Canada  |  
• C/C++ Programming experience over 10 years • Embedded real-time software (assembler, C/C++) 7 years solid • C# &...
Skills: C++, C# Assembler WinForms WPF Networking
1
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 0.0   |  $0 Earnings   |  0 Jobs
Bid ID: 37649704  |  Submitted: Feb 7, 2013 22:21 ET 
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Francois C
 France  |  
Technical dev in a shopbot company. Linux Specialist, RedHat Certified and Solaris admin. Developer on a major open source project.
Skills: PHP5, MySQL Administration, C++
1
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Bid ID: 37621047  |  Submitted: Feb 7, 2013 05:45 ET 
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Yevhen V.
 Germany  |  
Professional with ambition of getting interesting work done. Joy of extreme programming and hardcore programming problems.
Skills: MongoDB, Wowza Media Server, NoSQL, VOIP Administration
3
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 2.1   |  $35,258 Earnings   |  27 Jobs
Bid ID: 37561395  |  Submitted: Feb 5, 2013 18:00 ET 
Proposal SEALED
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