[llvm-dev] Euro LLVM videos finally online - proposal to use torrents for sharing

[Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev]

On Sep 8, 2015, at 12:26 PM, Renato Golin via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> On 8 September 2015 at 19:20, Tanya Lattner <tonic at nondot.org> wrote:
>> Youtube has been discussed in the past but we have usually defaulted to
>> mainly hosted on llvm.org and then a copy could potentially be on YouTube. I
>> would want this to be an official posting though.
> 
> Youtube is used by many foundations and conferences out there as the
> official channel for their presentations, tutorial videos, outreach,
> etc.
> 
> It can also be embedded in web pages, and there are good builtin
> plugins for all mobile platforms and browsers. It's not as easy to
> make an mp4 work out of the box in a way that you hope it would.
> 
> I don't see a problem in hosting the videos *in addition* to having
> them in a CDN, but especially because Youtube is free and ubiquitous,
> anything else (maybe apart from Vimeo) would be less ideal, especially
> if they require plugins for browsers or mobiles, even if they're free.

Anything that doesn’t *offer* a download option (breaking ToS is not an option) shouldn't be considered as the primary hosting IMO, which disqualify Youtube IIUC their ToS.

Tanya's proposal seems nice: having the video hosted by llvm.org and mirrored to Youtube would be a good tradeoff.

— 
Mehdi