Re: BitTorrent and streaming media

I have seen P2P radio applications ... sort of like Shoutcast. I have 
yet to see video streaming technologies like that.

I supposed if you set up an automatted bittorrent system of some 
kind, you could transfer chaptered blocks of audio or video quite 
easily.

I'm sure there are protocols developing... why not start your own? ;)


--- In [email protected], "Mieke Banderas" 
<miekebanderas@G...> wrote:
> Could some future adaption of BitTorrent be used for distributing
> streaming media? If not by the end listeners/viewers, then by bigger
> networks wanting to share bandwidth between them for streaming media
> purposes.  
> If such scenarios are indeed not possible, what are the current
> (technical) obstacles to this?
> 
> I know there is something called Coopnet, but I have yet to see an 
actual
> implementation of it. If you know where I can find projects and
> technology of this type, I'm all ears offlist (unless you think the
> BitTorrent subscribers can benefit from the info).





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