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Title: decentralized video live streaming, is there such thing ?
Post by: SalimNagamato on December 10, 2014, 11:04:45 AM
is there ?
the bandwidth and server resources to live stream to thousands of people is very big
what if it could be decentralized to share bandwidth usage among many nodes ?


Title: Re: decentralized video live streaming, is there such thing ?
Post by: Snail2 on December 10, 2014, 01:58:28 PM
As far as I know no such thing yet. It's a good idea, but if you want bandwidth sharing you'll have to implement QoS and some of the more advanced routing protocols. Maybe a torrent like thing would be easier as in that case you have to store only links to the content and the streaming would be an independent dataflow.


Title: Re: decentralized video live streaming, is there such thing ?
Post by: gatra on December 10, 2014, 03:22:12 PM
yes, there is
https://popcorntime.io/ (https://popcorntime.io/)


Title: Re: decentralized video live streaming, is there such thing ?
Post by: pedrog on December 10, 2014, 04:42:11 PM
There are a few: http://alternativeto.net/browse/search?q=popcorn+time


Title: Re: decentralized video live streaming, is there such thing ?
Post by: DrGrid on December 10, 2014, 11:00:13 PM
is there ?
the bandwidth and server resources to live stream to thousands of people is very big
what if it could be decentralized to share bandwidth usage among many nodes ?
I think the Zennet Team will focus on building a decentralized streaming service as soon as their protocol has been finished.


Title: Re: decentralized video live streaming, is there such thing ?
Post by: mrlupin on December 11, 2014, 04:17:36 AM
Storj coin?


Title: Re: decentralized video live streaming, is there such thing ?
Post by: e-coinomist on December 11, 2014, 12:31:01 PM
There is decentralized video live streaming but the problem is that everyone is getting the stream at different times and the offset becomes too high, the later a person joins.
Does not matter.
Doubtfull if I would even mind if one far away leaflet on the distribution tree will watch with 60 seconds latency.

This might be usefull tech for web radio stations.