Re: BitTorrent and streaming media

There is actually quite a lot of research going into streaming media.
Last year I did my dissertation on P2P Streaming Media, using a similar 
concept to BitTorrent, this is found here: www.lancs.ac.uk/ug/brampton/fyp/

However this year I'm doing a PhD in the topic, and I can point you to a few 
papers on the topic, but the most impressive is these guys:
http://esm.cs.cmu.edu/

They have been streaming video for a while now. I've only taken part in one 
of their networks, but video quality was good on my home ADSL, and even 
better on my university machine.

If you are interested in more links google for:
SplitStream, NICE, ZigZag, PROMISE, ScatterCast
(these are all P2P Streaming Networks of some kind)

I have a private wiki that I'm collecting all my research on, I'm willing to 
give you access if you want to know more. But its very researchy, and may 
not be useful to a normal user (unless of course you like reading papers)

Andrew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mieke Banderas" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 5:34 PM
Subject: [BitTorrent] BitTorrent and streaming media


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> 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?
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> 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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