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Guys guys hear me out ... the solution is to use "middle in" (not to be confused with middle out from Pied Piper). If you download from front and back simultan
by rawnlq 10y ago
Guys guys hear me out ... the solution is to use "middle in" (not to be confused with middle out from Pied Piper).
If you download from front and back simultaneously only the middle blocks would be scarce and you still get at least half your original streaming rate. And no weirdo will stop watching midway through a movie.
- Retr0spectrum 10y agoThat doesn't solve the problem, it just moves it around. A reasonable compromise would be to use any "spare" bandwidth to fetch random blocks.
- striking 10y agoAnd unfortunately, that's not what happens. Clients instead linearly download an hour's worth of content. That being said, though, do streaming clients make much of a contribution to the amount of seeded data?