On Feb 19, 2011, at 5:32 PM, David Barrett <dbarr...@quinthar.com> wrote:
> Is p2p video stream doing quite well?
>
> I remember there were a few options back in the day (PPLive?, Octoshape?
> I can't remember the names). And I know that Akamai is quietly doing
> a *lot* of P2P video streaming. And I keep hearing rumors of
> progressive download/playback Torrent clients (I know we did this at
> Swoosh with rather disappointing results).
>
> Adam - I don't think Littleshoot does live streaming, but does it do
> progressive download and playback of audio/video?
I vested a good a amount of time on the littleshoot codebase. It offers no
streaming solution. It can only "download" over http and play the buffer from
disk.
>
> So the technology is definitely available and has been for some time.
> But I sorta agree with Abhishek that it hasn't really taken off. Like,
> even the torrent apps that do support it only do so as a rather hidden
> or experimental feature. Why hasn't it become the default mode?
>
> -david
>
> On 02/19/2011 07:43 AM, Henry Sinnreich wrote:
>> Naively speaking, P2P video seems to be doing quite well.
>> Maybe the problem is with the p2p forums?
>>
>> Henry
>>
>>
>> On 2/19/11 12:52 AM, "abhishek desai"<abh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> When I go through the many of p2p streaming software forums I find
>>> very little activity happening. A number of p2p streaming softwares
>>> are dead, many dont have a website anymore. Is the p2p video streaming
>>> technology dying ? Any reason why this has happened ? What is the
>>> future of P2P video streaming technologies ?
>>>
>>> rgds,
>>> abhi
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