AceStream is P2P, its primary use is to stream pirated live sports though. But looking it up, it seems to have been infected by "blockchain!" geniuses.
Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?
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Re: Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?
#12Isn't this what https://webtorrent.io/ is?
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
looks interesting! surprised something like that never caught on. I looking for something like Twitch basically. It has really good quality and is live. But obviously Twitch is just losing money and using all Amazons resources so I wanted to see if there's a more sustainable p2p approach
What do you mean by never caught on? It's 'live' at https://joinpeertube.org/ where you can either go to https://joinpeertube.org/browse-content and put something into that search form, or limit that search to specific 'instances' under https://joinpeertube.org/instances Or to get back to your original question: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/create-upload-video edit: Your'e not limited to these addresses, for one…
Thanks! i will just check it out.
I just meant like never caught on as in like it's not super popular, but looks like it's on the come up. would be nice to have a real youtube competitor lol
Re: Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?
#14Isn't that what multicast is for?
Multicast doesn't work on the Internet.
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#15Tribler has had video streaming over BitTorrent for a bit less than two decades. https://www.tribler.org/StreamingExperiment/
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#16The only entities that could use such a thing are major streaming platforms, and projects trying to stream copyrighted content without consent.
The former don't want to use it as it degrades their control over the content, and the later don't want to make a new system cause systems that are built on torrents are good enough.
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#17This tech has been developed several times but ultimately CDNs are now so cheap that P2P is pointless. You can't ignore development cost since it dominates all other costs in this case.
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#18What does PeerTube do?
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#19Isn't this what https://webtorrent.io/ is?
kinda but i think that's for files. I am specifically thinking for live content like twitch
Re: Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?
#20There was Joost in 2008, from Skype founders. Skype was originally P2P until Microsoft acquisition and killing this legally questionable feature - need to feed the big brother (:
Joost raised ~$50M.
I remember it as it was one of rare apps built in XUL, the same framework as Mozilla apps (Firefox).