MonoTorrent 0.4 and Monsoon 0.15

MonoTorrent 0.40 has been released. There weren't many changes feature-wise, but there's been quite a lot of under the hood changes. Details can be found on www.monotorrent.com

Also, Monsoon 0.15 has been released. The release notes are available and your packages can be gotten from here.

Fun times, eh?

MonoTorrent 0.50 is slated for a few weeks time (don't hold me to this). There are a bucket load of features in the works which will definitely kick some ass. I've been getting some great patches recently from Olivier Dufour, which he has detailed in his post. These should all make 0.50. I've also been getting some awesome work from Karthik Kailash, and his friend David (whose second name i can't find now), implementing a fancy debugging GUI which exposes all the internals in a nice GUI to make it easy for me to detect bugs/issues. He's also implementing Ono support, which helps get faster transfers; Bit-tyrant like unchoking which prioritises peers who reciprocate data resulting in faster transfers along with a new Piece Picking algorithm which allows you to stream a media file via torrent efficiently.

I'm unsure how many of those features will hit 0.50, it depends on when they hit SVN and how much testing i can get in. But hopefully a few of them will get there.

MonoTorrent - Expanding your universe

As i'm sure everyone has heard at this stage, Banshee 1.0 has been released. It's a huge step up from the old 0.13.x releases, and well worth checking out!

So, now that banshee has some kickass podcast support, along with video support, wouldn't it be nice if you could download video podcasts which have a .torrent payload?

Wouldn't it be awesome if there as a .NET based torrent library, that maybe was exposed via a DBus service that could be integrated with banshee with just a few lines of code. Of course, once you've integrated the actual torrent downloading, how do you make banshee realise that .torrent files need to be handled specially? Well, write another few lines of code.

So all in all, because of banshees awesome extension framework, i wrote less than 200 lines of code of banshee code to enable banshee to download torrents. I was surprised by how easy everything was. I was up with creating the new extension within about 10 minutes. So, if you're interested in this extension, attach yourself to the bug report and you'll be able to keep up-to-date with the latest happenings.

After all this, what exactly does it look like when you download a torrent podcast? Well, it looks exactly like it does for a regular podcast download. You don't have to do anything special, it's all just MAGIC! Check out the screencast.