[p2p-hackers] Live P2P Video State of the Art

[David Barrett]

Wow, that's a great paper.  Is Fabio on this list?  If not, can you 
invite him?  Another paper that gives a nice overview:

	http://www.ebu.ch/en/technical/trev/trev_303-octoshape.pdf

Took a look at the Octoshape stuff; any idea on how it works?  Erasure 
coding?

-david

Gwendal Simon wrote:
> The following page may be of interest for you: 
> http://pulse.netofpeers.net/wiki/index.php/Publications
> 
> In his master thesis document, Fabio makes a rigorous bibliographic work 
> on P2P live streaming. He also gives some hints of the system he is 
> currently conceiving. This project, namely Pulse, considers live 
> "infinite" data streams, very sensitive to delay.
> 
> In the "netofpeers" initiative, such studies usually result in free 
> python softwares (see Solipsis and Maay).
> 
> Obviously, comments are welcomed !
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Gwendal Simon
> http://solipsis.netofpeers.net
> 
> 
> 
> David Barrett wrote:
> 
>> cefn.hoile at bt.com wrote:
>> > In contrast to the single-source, multiple recipients model, tvoon in
>> > Germany have been exploring a multiple-source, multiple recipients
>> > model for live streams.
>>
>> Ahh, interesting, do you have any links to more technical information on
>> how it works?  The website stays fairly high level.  I like the idea of
>> multiple sources / multiple recipients, but I'm curious if the
>> complexity pays for itself in the real world.  For example:
>>
>> - Can a node simultaneously receive and broadcast the same stream, or
>> need I receive the whole thing before I broadcast?
>>
>> - Are the streams "live" in the sense that they have no predefined
>> length, or is it merely "streaming" pre-recorded (fixed-length) video?
>>
>> - How does a node splice feeds from multiple sources together in
>> realtime to produce a single unified feed for playback?
>>
>> Basically, is anyone doing anything like this, is it possible, and is it
>> worth the effort?
>>
>> -david
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