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

[Gwendal Simon]

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 !

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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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