Bittorrent Launches Distributed Live Stream

Re:Bittorrent Launches Distributed Live Stream by sabret00the on Saturday November 12, 2011 @10:23AM (#3227954)

P2P Streaming Software:

* StreamTorrent

* SopCast

* TVUPlayer

* Tvants

* Veetle

* PPStream

* UUSEE

* PPlive

* Spvod

Thus BitTorrent is hardly on to a new thing here, but let's hope they can inspire some real improvements as the software is neither perfect nor mainstream.

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Re:Bittorrent Launches Distributed Live Stream by pixelcort on Saturday November 12, 2011 @10:53AM (#3228013)

Don't forget PeerCast.

I actually remember using PeerCast a long time ago. It was based on the Gnutella protocol IIRC.

The term "peercasting" also seems to have not survived to this day.

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Re:Bittorrent Launches Distributed Live Stream by sabret00the on Saturday November 12, 2011 @11:05AM (#3228045)

I purposely left off a lot that has fallen by the wayside. Sopcast and Veetle are by far the most popular today. Veetle is for all intents and purposes Flash based P2P and so it's very popular.

With Adobe's decision to dump support for smartphones, tablets and TVs, we're likely to see a huge push from them in this market, as IIRC they enabled P2P technologies in flash a while back. If Sopcast releases a browser based version, I see no reason why it can't rule the space given it's already overwhelming popularity.

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