File-sharing service VIPeers has released an upgraded version of it’s peer-to-peer media discovery and sharing tool PUMP, as reported on TechCrunch France. PUMP is touted as the “iTunes for video”, but it’s exactly much more than that and rather similar to apps like Miro and Joost. Update: and Vuze.
Update: forgot to mention that you need an invite code to download the software for now. Fortunately, we get to give away no less than 15,000 for TechCrunch readers. Code: PUMP-TECHCRUNCH-USA-15000.
PUMP is a desktop application that lets you search for and download the Flash versions of videos from a variety of services, including YouTube, Dailymotion, BitTorrent search engine Mininova, Jamendo, LegalTorrents and Google Torrent, and the results are presented in orderly tabs. You can even opt to include any other search engine you think is missing from the list. Videos can be played in practically any format and shared from within the interface on a multitude of social networks like Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed. The app even doubles as a full-fledged Web browser and podcasting tool thanks to the ability to import RSS feeds into the system.
It makes for easy management and discovery of videos, but what I really dig about the service is that is able to sync and convert content from both your imported iTunes and local PUMP libraries to your iPhone, iPod Touch or other mobile phones. It’s also a full-fledged BitTorrent client, which is little surprising considering VIPeers is also the company behind torrent sharing client Podmailing. Of course, we would never suggest that you’d be using PUMP to download any copyrighted content or anything.
The downsides: only available for Windows Vista and XP for now (it also uses IE for browsing), an uninspired UI and a bit of a memory drain. But don’t let that spoil the fun.
Chawesome name and logo/mascot thingy
Great video application. Yes, I too like the mascot thing. PUMP truly rocks.
Is it just me or is this thing an exact clone of VUSE… – http://www.vuze.com
Vuze is the original..This product is only a copy with the same features and stability. This compagny want only make money by copying technology
Its an EXACT clone and rip of open source technology.
I am going to enjoy wiping out crap developments just like this.
Stop scamming VC money and make something revolutionary.
TC, your getting soft.
Right, updated the post.
If it has task bar one-click control over bandwidth usage, automatically downloads BitTorrent RSS feeds, automatically synchronizes with my Archos, uses not too much RAM on the system, minimizes to tray, then great!
Perhaps they could add some type of plugin for peer-to-peer hosting of .torrent files so centralized tracker sites like like mininova wouldn’t be required for it to work, with tracking happening using DHT technology mostly and a list of decentralized tracker servers. This way MPAA can go after sites like thepiratebay, torrentspy and mininova all they want, that type of decentralized search would make it useless. Then add support for some type of encrypted BitTorrent that works through proxies even though it would be slower, that would make it totally impossible to stop it.
Though if pump is made by a commercial company and not as open source, they might not see the incentive to develop such features.
Their forum has a PUMP software, Feedback & suggestions thread. You could add all the above and see what happens.
You are welcome on the VIPeers forum of course, but let me react here:
* auto BitTorrent RSS with sync on mobiles including support for Archos -> yes, PUMP lets you do that, with filtering on the RSS feeds if you need
* bandwidth control from systray icon -> good idea, added to roadmap + we have to fix a stupid issue where downloads are suspended while in systray, duh
* RAM usage is admittedly heavy compared to some lightweights, but RAM is so cheap these days…
* we run a BitTorrent hosting service on vipeers.com and it will soon be integrated with PUMP. It is not fully decentralized as you suggest, but PUMP is open, so this service can be developed by anyone and integrated with PUMP. APIs in the works here: http://blog.vip...ipeers/api.html
Let’s talk directly: what is different/better ion Pump regarding Vuze ?
Hi M.Choquel,
Why won’t you answer me and tell us what is better or diffrent in PUMP vS Vuze ?
Maybe nothing to tell us ?
Pump is designed to let you manage your video library, not just your video downloads.
Pump lets you browse any web-site for content by simply entering its URL.
In comparison with classic BitTorrent clients, Pump is less focused on BitTorrent but also allows to search Web video sites and download using http as well as BitTorrent.
Pump is also very powerful on feeds management: podcasts, blogs, torrentcasts are all supported
+ Pump can detect content linked from each post + you can set powerful filtering on those feeds.
+ the number of Mobile devices supported for syncing content
bywifi also supports the features. Bywifi (Video Streaming Downloader) is a free program for downloading, transcoding and accelerating video streaming. It supports downloading, transcoding and P2P accelerating videos from all video websites, such as Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, MySpace, Yahoo, Justin.tv, etc.
it is a shame it is only for PC and IE, but the application sounds very good!
want these on mac !
I just signed up without any sort of code, do we need one? o.0
Nevermind, signing up is for an account, code is needed for download.
Switzerland apps rocks.
What David said. I could REALLY use something like this for work, but I’m on a Mac.
As the creator of PUMP and a Mac user since 1984, I must say I would have really loved to make it for Mac too, so I’m really sorry guys. Actually I use it on Parallels Desktop everyday!
what is this built on?. installs, looks and behaves like a .net app but i am really not sure.
You got it right AvatarX, it’s based on .net
well, then you could simply adjust it for Mono and have it working for Mac and Linux too in no time. and it should not be tricky to install in windows 7. maybe it lacks a digital signature or certificate.. make it fully clickone enabled and it will update and install in XP, Vista and 7 without a problem.
i have tested hundreds of .net apps.. so i should know.
Doesn’t work on WINE. =/
What about on mono?
Anyone got this to work on windows 7?
No it’s not working on Windows 7 for me.
In fact, it does work on Windows 7. It’s strange though. The trick is to try to install it several times. In the beginning, you get a blanc square window and it fails. But after a few times you get a warning and if you confirm, then the install works.
Really, insist and then Windows 7 allows you to install PUMP.
I got past this bit, but then an error comes up when trying to run it. You then have the option of continueing, it works for about 5 more secs, then windows says it has stopped working a insists on closeing it. I couldnt get compatability mode to work either.
It looks like it may be fun, so if you have any ideas i am willing to try them.
Jeez, a NSFW would have been nice on the video. I’m sure it comes as a shocker that some bosses don’t like to walk into a employee’s office and see bikini clad chicks on a beach.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that TechCrunch is getting paid to run this article? The referral code makes it obvious.
This program is a direct copy of Vuze which launched this functionality 6 months ago with a slicker interface. Plus it works on Macs.
Congrats on being the first obnoxious ‘TechCrunch is getting paid for this post’ claiming moron on this comment thread.
Too bad it’s based on VLC – that’s just a giant patent mindfield right there.
myVidster.com does all of this expect for the syncing feature. myVidster also give users the option to backup the video to myVidster’s servers for safe keeping. Now beat that!!!
Isn’t it illegal and against youtube TOS to archive copies of their content? Is their some API I don’t know about PUMP is using?
As Jim Carlton said this software is a breech of the YouTube ToS:
4 C: You agree not to access User Submissions (defined below) or YouTube Content through any technology or means other than the video playback pages of the Website itself, the YouTube Embeddable Player, or other explicitly authorized means YouTube may designate.
The point is also revisited in a few other sections.
On top of that, if people redistrubute what they download it’s also illegal as a breech of copyright.
There are reasons most video players don’t have a “download video” button. The videos are owned by the creator, which the exception of videos that are already copyright infringements.
I will be contacting youtube about this, although I’m sure they’re already aware of it by now.
ah nice. it is like Fireant reborn!!.. it never got able to relaunch as Odeo Player. this is like a evolution of that.
given it installed so fast and the way it looks and behaves.. is this done in .net?
the creator must make it a fully ClickOnce app so it works correctly in windows 7. should also adjust it for mono so it can be used in linux and the mac. by the look it was obviously not made in Expression Studio..
. a .net app mainly for windows with a Mac look?…..weird.
but even then i like it.. it got great potential.
vuze copy. why use this.