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   1 <h1>P2P-Next</h1>
   2 <p><a title="P2P-Next" href="http://www.p2p-next.org/">P2P-Next</a> is an integrated FP7 EU project involving more than 20 partners, including <a title="University Politehnica of Bucharest" href="http://www.upb.ro" ref="nofollow">University Politehnica of Bucharest</a> (UPB).</p>
   3 <p>P2P-Next aims to build the next generation Peer-to-Peer (P2P) content delivery platform.</p>
   4 <p>This site provides information on UPB's contribution to the P2P-Next project activities. We are currently part of WP4 (Work Package 4 - IPvNext Networking Fabric) and WP8 (Work Package 8 - Living Lab Trials).</p>
   5
   6 <h1>NextShare Video Plugins</h1>
   7 <dl>
   8         <dt><a href="http://www.tribler.org/trac/wiki/BrowserPlugin" target="_blank">NextSharePC</a></dt>
   9         <dd>a media-player browser plugin which uses <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/" target="_blank" ref="nofollow">VLC</a> libraries for video rendering and incorporates P2P technology for VideoOnDemand (VoD) and LiveStreaming content delivery. The plugin is currently working with Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows.</dd>
  10 </dl>
  11 <dl>
  12         <dt><a href="http://www.tribler.org/trac/wiki/SwarmPlayer" target="_blank">SwarmPlayer</a></dt>
  13         <dd>a browser plugin which uses the new HTML5 rendering and incorporates P2P technology for VideoOnDemand (VoD) and LiveStreaming content delivery</dd>
  14 </dl>
  15
  16 <table>
  17         <tr>
  18                 <th></th>
  19                 <th>Video Rendering</th>
  20                 <th>Operating Systems</th>
  21                 <th>Web Browsers</th>
  22         </tr>
  23         <tr>
  24                 <th>
  25                         <a href="http://www.tribler.org/trac/wiki/BrowserPlugin" target="_blank">NextSharePC</a>
  26                 </th>
  27                 <td>
  28                         <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/" target="_blank" ref="nofollow"><img src="<?php echo site_url('img/vlc-icon.png') ?>" alt="win" /> VLC</a>
  29                 </td>
  30                 <td>
  31                         <p><img src="<?php echo site_url('img/windows-icon.png') ?>" alt="win" /> Windows</p>
  32                         <p><img src="<?php echo site_url('img/macosx-icon.png') ?>" alt="win" /> Mac OS X</p>
  33                 </td>
  34                 <td>
  35                         <p><img src="<?php echo site_url('img/firefox-icon.png') ?>" alt="win" /> <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/" target="_blank" ref="nofollow">Mozilla Firefox</a> 3.5 or greater</p>
  36                         <p><img src="<?php echo site_url('img/ie-icon.png') ?>" alt="win" /> <a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/products/ie/home" target="_blank" ref="nofollow">Internet Explorer</a> 7.0 or greater</p>
  37                 </td>
  38         </tr>
  39         <tr>
  40                 <th>
  41                         <a href="http://www.tribler.org/trac/wiki/SwarmPlayer" target="_blank">SwarmPlayer</a>
  42                 </th>
  43                 <td>
  44                         <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/" target="_blank" ref="nofollow"><img src="<?php echo site_url('img/html5-icon.png') ?>" alt="win" /> HTML5</a>
  45                 </td>
  46                 <td>
  47                         <p><img src="<?php echo site_url('img/windows-icon.png') ?>" alt="win" /> Windows</p>
  48                         <p><img src="<?php echo site_url('img/linux-icon.png') ?>" alt="win" /> Linux</p>
  49                         <p><img src="<?php echo site_url('img/macosx-icon.png') ?>" alt="win" /> Mac OS X</p>
  50                 </td>
  51                 <td>
  52                         <p><img src="<?php echo site_url('img/firefox-icon.png') ?>" alt="win" /> <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/" target="_blank" ref="nofollow">Mozilla Firefox</a> 3.5 or greater</p>
  53                         <p><img src="<?php echo site_url('img/ie-icon.png') ?>" alt="win" /> <a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/products/ie/home" target="_blank" ref="nofollow">Internet Explorer</a> 7.0 or greater</p>
  54                 </td>
  55         </tr>
  56 </table>
  57
  58 <h1>Video Assets</h1>
  59 <p>To take a look at the NextShare plugins in action, all you have to do is <a href="<?php echo site_url('install-plugins'); ?>">install them</a> and then watch any video asset from this site.</p>
  60 <p>Through the use of P2P technology, you will be able to stream movies from various categories:</p>
  61 <ul>
  62         <li>from <a href="<?php site_url('catalog/category/1') ?>">feature films</a></li>
  63         <li>from <a href="<?php echo site_url('catalog/category/2') ?>"><em>TechTalks</em> technical presentations</a></li>
  64         <li>or from <a href="<?php site_url('catalog/category/3') ?>">various events</a> from our faculty</li>
  65         <li>from <a href="<?php site_url('catalog/category/4') ?>">karaoke parties</a> in <a href="http://acs.pub.ro/" target="_blank" ref="nofollow">Automatic Control and Computers Faculty</a></li>
  66 </ul>
  67 <p>All available movies are currently seeded by 5 peers with high bandwidth (1Gbit) kindly provided by the<a title="NCIT-Cluster" href="http://cluster.ncit.pub.ro/" target="_blank" ref="nofollow"> NCIT-Cluster</a>. Anyone that watches a movie will take part in the swarm and ensure greater availability to provided content.</p>