decentralized video live streaming, is there such thing ?

[SalimNagamato]

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 ?

[Snail2]

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.

[gatra]

yes, there is
https://popcorntime.io/

[pedrog]

There are a few: http://alternativeto.net/browse/search?q=popcorn+time

[DrGrid]

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.

[mrlupin]

Storj coin?

[e-coinomist]

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.