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zootella edited this page Sep 12, 2010 · 3 revisions

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Welcome to the sflimetracker wiki! You should probably look at the JIRA issue tracker or the QuickStart! The project wiki for the LimeCast may be of interest as well. There’s also a list of open questions if you feel interested enough. A user created a list of user questions.

Download and Install

Download the latest release from Downloads. please see the QuickStart for install instructions.

Try it out…

Features

The features for sfLimeTracker are:

  • Easy to install: The user can just ftp a bunch of files to a shared web host account. I think we can assume the user has access to phpMyAdmin, but probably doesn’t have shell access.
  • Web interface: Navigate to it, set an admin password, log in.
  • Feeds: Supports multiple feeds and sets of feeds. For instance, a video podcast might have one feed with content in Windows Media, while another with the same shows but encoded in H.264.
  • BitTorrent Tracker: It’s a BitTorrent tracker.
  • Makes Torrent: The user can make a torrent of a file using the url. LimeCast hashes the file, and creates a .torrent.

How end-users will get LimeTracker:

  1. Download a .zip file
  2. Unzip it on your personal computer
  3. Upload the folder of files to your web host
  4. Navigate your browser to install.php, where you will set the administrator password and enter the control panel

Control panel features

  • make a feed
  • fill out all the feed metadata
  • feed settings, like when to retire episodes
  • post a new episode in a variety of formats, fill out metadata
  • make a link for a single file, outside of a feed
  • create torrents by url to file or a torrent
  • progressive hashing
  • upstream feed, a feed from wordpress, etc.
  • remove links, episodes, and feeds
  • log out, change password

Platform

  • Apache
  • PHP 5.2.0+
    • works as fast-cgi
  • UNIX-like operating system; verified:
    • Linux
    • Mac OS X
    • OpenBSD