There have been some attempts at standardizing p2p streaming, http://tools.ietf.org/id/ppsp http://goalbit.sourceforge.net/
And the NextShare project (based on tribbler) by P2P Next Consortium is another step towards it. I am not sure of how successful it has been as there is no much news about it lately and their current status is not publicly available. but considering the reducing costs of CDN bandwidth year after year, does p2p streaming and p2p VOD offer significant savings ? other than PPLive and PPStream in the chinese market there is sopcast which I believe is popular outside china, but i see very little activity on the forums. -abhi On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Wang Danqi <beyond...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you look at the situation in Chinese, you will see that p2p video > streaming is really successful. There are two major P2P video streaming > provider, PPLive and PPStream, and many other similar companies, such as > Thunder (a.k.a xunlei), Funshion. They support both live streaming and > video-on-demand. Their clients, especially those most popular ones, like > PPLive, PPStream and Thrunder, are installed on nearly every PC in China. > They have attracted a large population of users and their solutions are > definitely cheaper than those using CDN only. > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 6:32 AM, 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 > > > > -- > Best wishes, > > Wang Danqi > > _______________________________________________ > 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
