Here is my vision for a distributed media module which I will not have time to work on so its only a vision.
Start with an RSS schema that has tags for different sources and different formats of a single type of media. This schema can also do some tagging. Make a node type that lets users upload things and attach them. This will generate the RSS. A simple form upload is compatible everywhere, but might not be desirable for that 10mb video. Syndicate. When a node syndicates a process backgrounds and fetches the media (might be triggered by a certain level of interest or inhibited by admin's settings). Bittorrent might be used as a backend for this if it can be made compatible enough. When the item is fetched tell the origional site you have a mirror by XML-RPC. Then the generating site will have the new mirror listed in RSS for sites to syndicate. -Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: ndrumm3 http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~ndrumm
