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reeplay.it coming to an xbmc near you...

stay tuned...

you can find reeplay.it here,

for those of you who don't know XBMC (possible ???), I link the relevant Wikipedia page; just a quick info: it's a very complete and free mediacenter available for Apple TV, Mac, Windows, Linux and Xbox

I must really thank very much the community and especially Big Belly Billy for the fantastic implementation he's done and all the others for the localizations in finnish, german, swedish (of course italian and english are supported).

P2P Filesharing - responses to the consultation - BERR

P2P Filesharing - responses to the consultation - BERR.

P2P Filesharing - responses to the consultation None of the options highlighted in the consultation won widespread support. Rather there was a marked polarisation of views between the rights holder community and consumers and the ISPs over what action should be taken.

total disagreement amongst stakeholders, I'd say.

perhaps the most relevant thing to note is BSkyB position:

Sky considers it fundamental to any solution that it is not imposed on ISP’s either through legislation or regulation. Any artificial interference with the business models of ISP’s is likely to jeopardise the development of the ISP industry and reduce incentives for investment in infrastructure etc. - BSkyB

I guess that being vertically integrated from the author to the STB somehow allows them to say they don't want extra burden of controlling users. I wonder if they'd replied the same if the didn't have NDS..

VWM ^ -1

A Virtual Windows Manager (such as spaces on the mac) is very useful when you have limited screens and need to define many virtual screens. It was fundamental when the limited resource was the pixels.

But now we have large monitors and often we spend time laying windows on the screen one adjacent to the other, so that we can read all of them.

Something we'd need is the opposite of the VWM, a Virtual Monitor Manager that, on the same physical screen, allows to define N virtual monitors.

For example, like in this picture, so that bringing a window in one of the areas and hitting the "maximize" button, the windows gets maximized and occupies all the designated area.

Does someone know if such a tool exists ?

Reeplay.it introduces APIs for third parties applications

Reeplay.it is a transcoding and playback utility we are working on since nearly two years now.

with reeplay.it you can bookmark any "free to web" video you find on the Internet and play it back on any device or download it to your media player (iPod, iPhone, PSP, apple tv etc..)

next week we are going to release some videos that easily illustrate various functions of the system.

we will release an important application update with new bookmarking plugins for Firefox and Internet Explorer. The underlying identification mechanism has changed and it has been totally revisited.

today we introduce the website to support developers, which documents the APIs with which third parties applications can interface. for example to easily build integration between Reeplay.it and set top boxes. APIs will progressively be extended to add new functionalities which are supported at the core level but not yet present in the user interface.

If you are interested, please contact   info (at) reeplay.it