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BitTorrent starts streaming DJ sets to test live P2P
- JoshTriplett 15y agoI look forward to seeing more technical information on the streaming P2P protocol. Seems like it would require significant changes to the basic torrent protocol to get the next bits needed without a huge buffer and time lag.
- lwat 15y agoI noticed that my BT client (µTorrent) already has a 'STREAM' button on downloading torrents.
- JoshTriplett 15y agoThat would violate the bittorrent protocol, which explicitly says that clients must not bias their choices of chunks. And consider that if all clients did so, the peer-to-peer mechanism would stop working for the later chunks.
- nl 15y agohttp://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-p2p-live-streaming-110119/ http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-p2p-live-streaming-110119... has a longer story (from earlier this year). I hesitate to say it has more details though...
- nl 15y agohttp://www2.bittorrent.com/dna/guides/dna-integration-guide/getting-started-what-is-dna/video-streaming http://www2.bittorrent.com/dna/guides/dna-integration-guide/... I don't really understand how it works though.
- radarsat1 15y agoInteresting. I heard that spotify uses some P2P technology, but since it's got such a huge database and people are listening to different things, then I guess they just leverage the users to basically send files to each other. In this case everyone is receiving the same stream live, so I guess it requires quite complex messaging management. I'm imagining that clients check the tracker to find other clients, select a pool of peers, and then divides up a sequential list of stream blocks, requesting one from each. Still, this would depend on connecting to peers that are not too many hops away from the source, so some kind of tiering must be managed as well.
- atomical 15y agoBitTorrent Inc has been around forever. Is this a new product or new marketing?
- nitrogen 15y agoA new product. They've developed a reasonably low latency P2P streaming protocol for delivering live events.
- atomical 15y agoI thought they had something similar a few years ago that they were licensing.
- ethank 15y agoNew product that Bram worked on I believe. My sister is doing marketing on it.