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I am really curious, why isn't there any popular FOSS P2P for live streaming? It's very easy to get any show, movie, game via torrents but you can't just do the
by the_other_guy 8y ago
I am really curious, why isn't there any popular FOSS P2P for live streaming? It's very easy to get any show, movie, game via torrents but you can't just do the same for a live football match, is there a technical obstacle for this?
- general8bitso 8y agoThey exist, particularly as Kodi plugins.
- the_other_guy 8y agofree? like what?
- dylz 8y agoIt's like a bizarre network of bad pirate streams, when one goes down someone starts another. Kodi plugins in this context generally just refer to pirate streams. Torrents: downloading is a lot easier than simultaneous live streaming to many people; this is why many streaming sites moved from something like RTMP to HLS/DASH/etc - instead of a persistent connected stream, they just upload small video files
- kristofferR 8y agoPlexus and Sparkle are the Kodi plugins you want, it scrapes the *Streams subreddits for Acestreams.
- harlanji 8y agoP2P might not be the best method for live streaming. I build a FLOSS live streaming platform that uses HLS, and latency via Cloudflare CDN matches Twitch. That is just a growing uncachable playlist with timestamped cachable segment files. It can simultaneously syndicate out to multiple networks like Twitch, YT, and FB.
- kristofferR 8y agoThat's not really accurate, Ace Streams (live TV over BitTorrent) are very popular for live sport matches. It's not open source though :/ Tribler offers FOSS P2PTV, but it's not widely used.