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   1 <h1><a id="p2p-next">P2P-Next</a></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" rel="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 threw through the <a id="next-share"><strong>NextShare</strong></a> technology which enables video-on-demand and live streaming for both computers and digital set-top-boxes (STB).</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><a id="next-share-video-plugins">NextShare Video Plugins</a></h1>
   7 <dl>
   8         <dt><a id="nextsharepc" 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" rel="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 id="swarmplayer" 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" rel="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" rel="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" rel="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" rel="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" rel="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" rel="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 echo site_url('catalog/category/movies') ?>">feature films</a></li>
  63         <li>from <a href="<?php echo site_url('catalog/category/tech-talks') ?>"><em>TechTalks</em> technical presentations</a></li>
  64         <li>or from <a href="<?php echo site_url('catalog/category/events') ?>">various events</a> from our faculty</li>
  65         <li>from <a href="<?php echo site_url('catalog/category/karaoke') ?>">karaoke parties</a> in <a href="http://acs.pub.ro/" target="_blank" rel="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" rel="nofollow"> NCIT-Cluster</a>. Anyone that watches a movie will take part in the swarm and ensure greater availability to provided content.</p>
  68
  69 <h1>The Platform</h1>
  70
  71 <p>The P2P video distribution platform used by this site is written in <a href="http://www.php.net/">PHP</a>. It makes use of the excellent <a href="http://codeigniter.com/">CodeIgniter</a> web application framework.</p>
  72
  73 <p>To install and configure the platform on your local system, please download <a href="http://p2p-next.cs.pub.ro/gitweb/?p=living-lab-site.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz">the latest tarball</a> and follow the instructions in the INSTALL file or the wiki (<strong>TODO</strong>).</p>
  74
  75 <p>We welcome contributions to the development and testing of this platform. If you would like to contribute, we recommend you <a href="https://p2p-next.cs.pub.ro/redmine/account/register">register on the Redmine development site</a> and ...
  76 <ul>
  77         <li>... ask questions or provide answers on the <a href="https://p2p-next.cs.pub.ro/redmine/projects/site/boards">forums</a>;</li>
  78         <li>... add issues to the <a href="https://p2p-next.cs.pub.ro/redmine/site/issues">issue tracker</a>, signaling problems and absent features;</li>
  79         <li>... clone the <a href="http://p2p-next.cs.pub.ro/gitweb/?p=living-lab-site.git">Git repository</a>, do code reviews and send patches;</li>
  80         <li>... <?php echo safe_mailto('p2p-next-contact@cs.pub.ro', 'ask us') ?> for write access to the <a href="https://p2p-next.cs.pub.ro/redmine/site/wiki">wiki</a> and update pages.</li>
  81 </ul>