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There is a chinese program SopPlayer (SopCast) which lets you P2P stream video in digital TV quality, works pretty well and is basically unknown. People here us
by guard-of-terra 15y ago
There is a chinese program SopPlayer (SopCast) which lets you P2P stream video in digital TV quality, works pretty well and is basically unknown. People here use it to watch football and other sports tv via internet. I think it basically lets you broadcast anything from your PC and other people to watch it, but without having to produce all the traffic.
They didn't even need a loud name to make the technology work.
- newhouseb 15y agoAnother similar program is PPLive (also primarily Chinese). From a technical perspective it's quite cool stuff (if you google around you can find papers on the implementation and how they deal with buffering, etc) and I'm surprised it hasn't taken off in the US sooner - a great example of China innovating in software (as opposed to the constant copying pointed out by others).
- Ravir 15y agoSopcast is great for P2P streaming, but only works on Windows (or wine).
- guard-of-terra 15y agoThat's what you get with Chinese. I guess they just don't see the problem with that. But the underlying tech is very impressive.
- fungi 15y agoi used it on linux a couple of years ago to watch world cup (took a bit of fucking around) http://www.google.com.au/search?q=sop+player+linux http://www.google.com.au/search?q=sop+player+linux http://code.google.com/p/sopcast-player/ http://code.google.com/p/sopcast-player/