Calling All Broadcasters

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Post by marioestrada » Wed, Nov 21, 2012, 7:27 PM UTC

Do you have a Ustream channel? A justin.tv following? A webcam, and a dream? Do you want to help invent the next generation of live streaming? Cool. We’re looking for people like you.

Calling All Broadcasters
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Re: Calling All Broadcasters

#2

Post by kzahel » Wed, Nov 21, 2012, 7:32 PM UTC

There's a lot of times that I'm watching something on YouTube that's broadcast live (like presidential debates) when I wish there was a less corporate, ad infested version where it was available. I think a P2P solution for events like this would be really cool. I've seen BitTorrent live evolve over the last few years and it's really beginning to mature. It still hasn't seen a swarm at that kind of scale, though.

Re: Calling All Broadcasters

#3

Post by chadfarth83 » Wed, Nov 21, 2012, 7:39 PM UTC

This seems like a very useful tool for people who cannot afford big servers.

Re: Calling All Broadcasters

#4

Post by joeguilmette » Wed, Nov 21, 2012, 7:46 PM UTC

I hope YouTube et al are asleep at the wheel long enough for this to take control of large scale live events away from them - the Baumgartner jump, the debates, it'd be nice to see these handled by P2P technology...

Re: Calling All Broadcasters

#5

Post by thebutter21 » Wed, Nov 21, 2012, 7:46 PM UTC

Seems like a viable solution for a lot different content producers. NASA included:

http://nasaweb.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Cut-Costs-By-Using-BitTor...

Re: Calling All Broadcasters

#6

Post by hack_edu » Wed, Nov 21, 2012, 7:49 PM UTC

This would be perfect for massive scale streaming events, like the Felix Baumgartner skydive record jump or the Mars Rover landing.

Youtube estimated that the skydive record's live stream used at least 10% of all Internet traffic while it was streaming and they were hard pressed to keep up. The only way they said they could scale further would be some sort of P2P option.

Re: Calling All Broadcasters

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Post by marshray » Wed, Nov 21, 2012, 7:59 PM UTC

joeguilmette wrote: post #4

I hope YouTube et al are asleep at the wheel long enough for this to take control of large scale live events away from them - the Baumgartner jump, the debates, it'd be nice to see these handled by P2P technology...

Well, maybe. In reality they really only need their hands on the control channel (whatever that is here) and can leave the bulk data delivery to peer-to-peer routing like the internet was designed for.