Saturday, February 27, 2010

Wow, it's been that long huh.

First of all, please accept my apologies for just disappearing from the Vista Media Center development. During summer 2007 things got a bit crazy in real-life (crazy as in busy). So what happened there was that Aufero ended up being shelved. Unfortunately.

I had promised myself that I'd open source it if I ever stopped development. But you know how it goes, the code is never "clean enough" to publish. Now with a few years of it all collecting dust, I am considering throwing it out there.

That is, unless there are already really compelling alternatives out there that does BitTorrent and/or a movie-library bundled with it. And of course, there would have to be some kind of interest in it since it would take some work to go through the code and at least write some basic documentation on what is what. It's written in C# and the BitTorrent client used is MonoTorrent (which has grown to become quite a kick ass application, I see). If you are interested in taking the lead of this project, drop me a mail at aufero.vmc@gmail.com.

I realize I might be open sourcing this waay too late for it to be (or stay) relevant.

I completely stopped with Media Center development when I stopped with Aufero so as a disclaimer I'd like to add: I have little to no idea how well this code base would work on Windows 7 Media Center (but I imagine someone who is developing for Media Center might be able to tweak it to fit in).