That's correct, David, LittleShoot does progressive download with an extra copy to the browser but doesn't get into live streaming at all. The progressive download is implemented for BitTorrent, Gnutella, and LittleShoot downloads.
I think Octoshape and even the p2p layer in Flash (with some work on top) are the furthest along, with Bram Cohen's latest forays certainly in the mix! -Adam On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:32 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? > > 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> p2p-hackers mailing list >>> p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com >>> http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> p2p-hackers mailing list >> p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com >> http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > -- Adam Fisk http://www.littleshoot.org | http://adamfisk.wordpress.com | http://twitter.com/adamfisk _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
