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

[Sean Silva via llvm-dev]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

+1

-- Sean Silva


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