Broadcast Machine
The Broadcast Machine
Designed to work as the server side of the Democracy TV platform that also included the Democracy Player , a cross-platform desktop media player forked from Mozilla Firefox code, Broadcast Machine was a project of the Participatory Culture Foundation, which still develops the Democracy player software under the name Miro.
Information about the Broadcast Machine was located at http://www.getmiro.com/create/broadcast/ (dead link)
Detailed computer science paper by Broadcast Machine developers Christian Bryan, Greg Opperman, and Drew Wilson.
Interview with creator Steve Holmes at http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2005/06/holmes_wilson_i.html
Blog and news posts mentioning the Broadcast Machine release
- "It's a php tool for your website for publishing / posting video 'channels' (rich metadata rss feeds). It's the easiest way to post torrent files and it's also a really good way to make collections of videos from around the web (or to make channels out of stuff that you've posted elsewhere, eg archive.org or ourmedia.org). The goal of the software is to help people make channels of video that will be browsable, downloadable, and watchable in our video player." - BoingBoing
- "User-produced media takes another step forward with the release of Broadcast Machine, an open source application that streams your video as a BitTorrent from your web server. A viewer is also being released. The software is beta and not ready for prime time yet, but it just shows how close we are to bypassing traditional media altogether" - Stephen Downes
- "Backed by tech veterans Andy Rappaport and Mitch Kapor, the PCF is looking to do for video what podcasting has done for audio. Publishing over the Internet using standard RSS feeds, the aptly named Broadcast Machine software includes a companion DTV viewer that lets users subscribe and manage different broadcasts." - XBiz