Bringing Peer-to-Peer Streaming to the World.

Re:Bringing Peer-to-Peer Streaming to the World. by streptomycin on Thursday February 27, 2014 @04:32PM (#7315249)

The most common use of p2p streaming today is pirating live sporting events. Will there be any problems with using Swirl for that purpose?

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Re:Bringing Peer-to-Peer Streaming to the World. by jsonified on Thursday February 27, 2014 @05:12PM (#7315571)

Hi, I'm the author of swirl, such as it is. In principle there's nothing stopping you from streaming anything with PPSPP. The current erlang implementation could run on an android tablet for example. And if you had a pcell nearby http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/20/steve-perlman-pcell-is-rea... then b/w really wouldn't be a constraint.

There's a fair bit of work remaining, in particular browser/client support is something I've not even considered, it's not my speciality.

I'm sure VLC and Firefox etc would be awesome clients, but one step at a time.

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Re:Bringing Peer-to-Peer Streaming to the World. by scrym on Thursday February 27, 2014 @04:38PM (#7315292)

What's the difference with a mobile peercast ?

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