RSS for Torrent downloads?

[Spaceomega]

Basically this: I'd really appreciate if there were RSS for torrents (specifically the HD Quicktime), so that you could subscribe to an RSS in something like uTorrent that would pick up the torrent for the HD Quicktime. Think this is possible?


Also, no, I do not want to use the Rev3 Miro player, it uses extra memory that I'd rather not give up.

Thanks.

P.S. Sorry if this is in the wrong place.

[tokenuser]

Every show on the revision3.com webpage has a big button that looks like this:



That will open the subscription tab (that is also located under the flash player) and give you the feed options for the show yo are interested in. From there you are on your own. All the feed URLs are in place ... so just copy them into your RSS feed manipulator ofd choice and go for it.

[Spaceomega]

Originally Posted by tokenuser

Every show on the revision3.com webpage has a big button that looks like this:



That will open the subscription tab (that is also located under the flash player) and give you the feed options for the show yo are interested in. From there you are on your own. All the feed URLs are in place ... so just copy them into your RSS feed manipulator ofd choice and go for it.

Yes, I understand this. The thing is that there is no RSS feed that has links to the TORRENT files for HD-QT/WMV/XVID/Etc, only RSS feeds that have links to the HD-QT/WMV/XVID/Etc.

The RSS feed would normally look like this for HD-QT:

http://revision3.com/diggnation/feed...igh-definition

Diggnation - Diggnation Live in Amsterdam
Friday, April 04, 2008 6:00 PM

Photoshop Users are Pirates, Having Sex With A Patio Table, Mr. T Saves Boy, Victory for the Topless Front, 3G iPhone Coming in Months, Redheads Have More Sex, Rats Use Miniature Rakes.
Media files
diggnation--0144--amsterdamnation2--hd.h264.mov (QT video, 547 MB)

When what I'd like a RSS for the TORRENT of HD-QT to look like this:

Diggnation - Diggnation Live in Amsterdam
Friday, April 04, 2008 6:00 PM

Photoshop Users are Pirates, Having Sex With A Patio Table, Mr. T Saves Boy, Victory for the Topless Front, 3G iPhone Coming in Months, Redheads Have More Sex, Rats Use Miniature Rakes.
Media files
diggnation--0144--amsterdamnation2--hd.h264.mov.torrent (QT video, 547 MB)

Understand now?

[tokenuser]

I understand that.

You might want to do some searching ... OK, I get you dont want to use Miro, but what player do you use that doesn't accept a file you can direct download?

[Spaceomega]

Originally Posted by tokenuser

I understand that.

You might want to do some searching ... OK, I get you dont want to use Miro, but what player do you use that doesn't accept a file you can direct download?

The past three things that I downloaded via torrent on here went quite smooth, actually. No problems, so I think they've got that fixed.

It's not that I can't download directly, it's that I would like to torrent the episodes of my favorite shows automatically with uTorrent, a program I already have and use a lot (therefor leaving it open most of the time). I don't see why Rev3 doesn't have this already, seeing as how it could save them bandwidth.

[MAD_JIHAD]

Yes offering torrent files in an RSS feed (at least a torrent of the High Definition file) would be awesome because i don't want to waste revision3s bandwidth.

[KichigaiMentat]

Agree'd. I actually just set up an old computer running KTorrent and a uPnP server, and dumping in .torrents via RSS would be nice. My biggest problem is that I can never find seeds or peers even. These things seem to have a ridiculously short shelf-life, and many of us have to deal with Comcast throttling down our bandwidth for use of BitTorrent (even legal applications like this).

Still, if the RSS is out there, everyone's machines would automatically download the file, and hopefully seed it out automatically (I set my defaults to a 3.00 seeding ratio, but for you, Rev3, I'll bump it up to the big five-oh. I already redistribute Diggnation on the local campus network), which hopefully will make the torrents more attractive, which should reduce your bandwidth load.

It can't hurt to make a Torrent RSS feed, can it?

[Spaceomega]

Originally Posted by KichigaiMentat

Agree'd. I actually just set up an old computer running KTorrent and a uPnP server, and dumping in .torrents via RSS would be nice. My biggest problem is that I can never find seeds or peers even. These things seem to have a ridiculously short shelf-life, and many of us have to deal with Comcast throttling down our bandwidth for use of BitTorrent (even legal applications like this).

Still, if the RSS is out there, everyone's machines would automatically download the file, and hopefully seed it out automatically (I set my defaults to a 3.00 seeding ratio, but for you, Rev3, I'll bump it up to the big five-oh. I already redistribute Diggnation on the local campus network), which hopefully will make the torrents more attractive, which should reduce your bandwidth load.

It can't hurt to make a Torrent RSS feed, can it?

That's another reason RSS torrents would be great: Torrents would actually be fast for those early downloaders.

I hope someone who can make this possible will see this.

[Whatever Fits]

Originally Posted by Spaceomega

That's another reason RSS torrents would be great: Torrents would actually be fast for those early downloaders.

I hope someone who can make this possible will see this.

Oh, please bring back those torrent feeds! I have the torrent feeds automatically downloaded and moved into the movie folder on my server for my MythTV box. Beautiful system. Fully automated. I just watch these shows on my TV just like a DVR.

[chuckles]

Originally Posted by Spaceomega

Basically this: I'd really appreciate if there were RSS for torrents (specifically the HD Quicktime), so that you could subscribe to an RSS in something like uTorrent that would pick up the torrent for the HD Quicktime. Think this is possible?


Also, no, I do not want to use the Rev3 Miro player, it uses extra memory that I'd rather not give up.

Thanks.

P.S. Sorry if this is in the wrong place.

We're looking into bringing RSS feeds for our torrents back, but as of right now we do not have an ETA on when that might be. In the meantime, please use our direct down RSS feeds.

-chuckles-