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

[Dimitris Vyzovitis]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, David Barrett wrote:

> With this in mind, do you know of any proven techniques (or new
> research) in grid/swarming delivery of live video?  Which research,
> projects, or products would you say are demonstrating the state of the
> art in scalable, adaptive, high-quality video streaming?

You might be interested in VidTorrent, which is a protocol we are working
on for real time video streaming (the name is more of a tribute to
BitTorrent, than anything else. We are simply using similar ideas and we
write in python, but other than that it doesnt have much to do with bt).

http://viral.media.mit.edu/index.php?page=vidtorrent

We are in early prototype stage, as in it works inside the lab and we can
demo it. We are planning to release the code under the GNU GPL in early
December, but we have already released Peers, the low level distributed
programming environment that we use to develop it.

You can check it out at
http://viral.media.mit.edu/peers

Feel free to contact me or ibmirkin at gmail.com directly if you are
interested in it. There are no papers yet, we'll do that after we get the
code out.

-- vyzo