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I'm sure there is some huge technical hurdle that someone will educate me about, but how is bittorrent streaming of live content not a thing yet? All these woul
by mrgriscom 11y ago
I'm sure there is some huge technical hurdle that someone will educate me about, but how is bittorrent streaming of live content not a thing yet? All these would-be cord-cutters say that sports is the only thing holding them back. Why can't content be made available for torrenting in small chunks as they become available, with the swarm prioritizing the chunks chronologically biased way? Seems achievable that you'd only be lagging a few minutes behind live.
- eru 11y agoYou could do bittorrent-like streaming of live content. The bittorrent protocol itself isn't aimed at getting the content of a file in any particular order. (In fact, it works best in random order.)
- dhess 11y agoThere is Acestream, which the authors claim is based on BitTorrent. Unfortunately, the client software is allegedly a bit dodgy, and nobody can tell for sure as it's all closed-source.