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Re:Show HN: CuriosityStream – Netflix for non-fiction by sawyerjhood on Thursday February 25, 2016 @10:59AM (#11175238)
The product looks great, I am a huge fan of documentaries myself and have always wanted a service like this. I have always been interested in small streaming sites and how they keep the costs down, your plans are very well priced. Have you guys ever thought about using P2P sharing with WebRTC to reduce bandwidth prices?
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Re:Show HN: CuriosityStream – Netflix for non-fiction by MPetitt on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:19AM (#11175412)
We've looked into it, but it works a lot better with live streams then on demand since the amount of people watching the same piece at the same time are pretty low. But we did just start experimenting with a product from Hola that does some pretty cool stuff with adaptive streaming. http://holacdn.com/
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Re:Show HN: CuriosityStream – Netflix for non-fiction by fpvracing on Thursday February 25, 2016 @05:35PM (#11178384)
Do you know of any good resources for learning about using P2P and WebRTC to cut down on livestreaming bandwidth costs? This is highly relevant to something I'm working on at the moment.
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Re:Show HN: CuriosityStream – Netflix for non-fiction by MPetitt on Monday February 29, 2016 @12:53PM (#11196907)
Unfortunately most tech in that space seems to be proprietary but here are some companies we have found doing cool stuff in the space.

Hola CDN Streamroot Peer5 Conviva Cedexis

I think some have some whitepapers, but I'd be surprised if they give much away.

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Re:Show HN: CuriosityStream – Netflix for non-fiction by eldod on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @03:14AM (#11201393)
Hey, Nikolay from Streamroot here.

We also have whitepapers easily accessible on our website, and a free dashboard where you can test our technology in a few clicks. In terms of open-source projects, there are some projects like Bem.tv but they lack robustness when you try to scale.

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Re:Show HN: CuriosityStream – Netflix for non-fiction by whadar on Monday February 29, 2016 @02:09PM (#11197427)
Hadar from Peer5 here. We'd be happy to share whitepapers and case studies about our p2p cdn. Feel free to contact us :)
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Re:Show HN: CuriosityStream – Netflix for non-fiction by MPetitt on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:20AM (#11175417)
Also if you haven't checked it out we wrote a whole post on how we tackled streaming from a tech perspective.

https://medium.com/@CuriosityStream/how-to-roll-your-own-str...

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