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BitTorrent Live stream of Egyptian protests

63 points by pwmckenna 13y ago

hack_edu 13y ago
Can anyone speak to the quality of the stream?
- edwardunknown 13y ago
  Pretty good, not HD but steady
ernesto99 13y ago
To clarify, this is not streamed from the actual location. It's an RT live feed that's being pushed out as a BitTorrent live stream from a safe home, probably nowhere near Egypt.
zodo123 13y ago
It's a 2 megabit stream at 854x480.
at-fates-hands 13y ago
The Reuters stream is live and crystal clear: http://live.reuters.com/Event/World_News http://live.reuters.com/Event/World_News Not sure if this has been posted in another thread, so I apologize if this is already out there.
dakimov 13y ago
Cool.
sciurus 13y ago
The NY Times is doing a good job of keeping their coverage up to date. http://projects.nytimes.com/live-dashboard/egypt-political-crisis http://projects.nytimes.com/live-dashboard/egypt-political-c...
malandrew 13y ago
I would love to see someone familiar with torrents and streaming videos to put together a project that enables decentralized but "bundled video streams" of live video content coming from handheld devices like the GoPro. The reason for bundling the streams is to make sure new streams that have not attracted a swarm can piggyback off the swarm for existing streams. Inclusion in the bundled stream would just require a quorum of the existing streams choosing to update their stream to include the new stream. This would also help discover since you could "flip" through the channels on the same bundled stream.
- rickdale 13y ago
  That's a great idea and an important next step in this type of technology and the world of reporting.
  - malandrew 13y ago
    Another approach would be to let the swarm nominate videos to include in the bundle. Whenever a new stream is added, others in the stream are notified of its inclusion, they can check out that new stream, if they think it is relevant to the original stream, they can start bundling it in as well. As more nodes broadcast the same new stream, it rises in the ranking of nominated streams for inclusion. Once a quorum of swarm nodes thinks a stream should be bundled it is added. Of course other users can specifically avoid certain streams if they think it is spam or if they have limited bandwidth to share. This approach would basically work like a "decentralized" video subreddit. i.e. an "ephemeral" social network with accompanying live video. Streaming of live comments/chat over torrents would also be fascinating.
mladenkovacevic 13y ago
It's incredibly inspiring to see the strength of Egyptian people. I would've thought after the first revolution their energy would've been spent and they simply wouldn't have the numbers to try it a second time. Boy was I wrong. Americans, Canadians, British, Germans, French and all the rest of you NATO puppets, take a look at what real democracy is.

63 points by pwmckenna 13y ago

hack_edu 13y ago

Can anyone speak to the quality of the stream?

edwardunknown 13y ago
Pretty good, not HD but steady

ernesto99 13y ago

To clarify, this is not streamed from the actual location. It's an RT live feed that's being pushed out as a BitTorrent live stream from a safe home, probably nowhere near Egypt.

zodo123 13y ago

It's a 2 megabit stream at 854x480.

at-fates-hands 13y ago

The Reuters stream is live and crystal clear: http://live.reuters.com/Event/World_News http://live.reuters.com/Event/World_News Not sure if this has been posted in another thread, so I apologize if this is already out there.

dakimov 13y ago

Cool.

sciurus 13y ago

The NY Times is doing a good job of keeping their coverage up to date. http://projects.nytimes.com/live-dashboard/egypt-political-crisis http://projects.nytimes.com/live-dashboard/egypt-political-c...

malandrew 13y ago

I would love to see someone familiar with torrents and streaming videos to put together a project that enables decentralized but "bundled video streams" of live video content coming from handheld devices like the GoPro. The reason for bundling the streams is to make sure new streams that have not attracted a swarm can piggyback off the swarm for existing streams. Inclusion in the bundled stream would just require a quorum of the existing streams choosing to update their stream to include the new stream. This would also help discover since you could "flip" through the channels on the same bundled stream.

rickdale 13y ago
That's a great idea and an important next step in this type of technology and the world of reporting.
- malandrew 13y ago
  Another approach would be to let the swarm nominate videos to include in the bundle. Whenever a new stream is added, others in the stream are notified of its inclusion, they can check out that new stream, if they think it is relevant to the original stream, they can start bundling it in as well. As more nodes broadcast the same new stream, it rises in the ranking of nominated streams for inclusion. Once a quorum of swarm nodes thinks a stream should be bundled it is added. Of course other users can specifically avoid certain streams if they think it is spam or if they have limited bandwidth to share. This approach would basically work like a "decentralized" video subreddit. i.e. an "ephemeral" social network with accompanying live video. Streaming of live comments/chat over torrents would also be fascinating.

mladenkovacevic 13y ago

It's incredibly inspiring to see the strength of Egyptian people. I would've thought after the first revolution their energy would've been spent and they simply wouldn't have the numbers to try it a second time. Boy was I wrong. Americans, Canadians, British, Germans, French and all the rest of you NATO puppets, take a look at what real democracy is.