BitTorrent
Inc. believes that if you don’t push forward and progress, then you
surely regress. This is why the company is busy launching a new service
in response to an ever increasing demand of live streaming services.
A new service is called BitTorrent Live: it’s an innovative protocol for P2P live streaming, and BitTorrent invites users to contribute to it. The system in question employs the principles of the BitTorrent protocol, which, when applied to streaming, are able to make broadcasting much easier and provides greater freedom.
BitTorrent explained that the more people tune in, the more resilient the stream is. As such, users will be able to share video with a massive audience, online – without any bandwidth costs or infrastructure requirements.
Originating from the BitTorrent protocol, BitTorrent Live is regarded as the ideal instrument to help Internet users share events to the masses in real-time. The main benefit of the live streaming service is that it doesn’t require gigantic bandwidth requirements.
BitTorrent Inc. explains that every viewer joining a swarm is actually extending its reach by sharing pieces of the file to other viewers. In the meantime, media is delivered with stunningly low delay by using a UDP Screamer protocol. As for video and audio, they are transmitted through the industry standards H.264 and AAC codecs, which provided the best quality.
Although the streaming service is still under development, it is only available as a technology demonstration. In other words, the end users are still unable to run a video source. However, when the protocol has been finalized the experts expect BitTorrent to allow user generation of content. The company admits that the experience may not be perfect in the beginning, but they will strive to improve it, and always welcome users’ input and experiences.
A new service is called BitTorrent Live: it’s an innovative protocol for P2P live streaming, and BitTorrent invites users to contribute to it. The system in question employs the principles of the BitTorrent protocol, which, when applied to streaming, are able to make broadcasting much easier and provides greater freedom.
BitTorrent explained that the more people tune in, the more resilient the stream is. As such, users will be able to share video with a massive audience, online – without any bandwidth costs or infrastructure requirements.
Originating from the BitTorrent protocol, BitTorrent Live is regarded as the ideal instrument to help Internet users share events to the masses in real-time. The main benefit of the live streaming service is that it doesn’t require gigantic bandwidth requirements.
BitTorrent Inc. explains that every viewer joining a swarm is actually extending its reach by sharing pieces of the file to other viewers. In the meantime, media is delivered with stunningly low delay by using a UDP Screamer protocol. As for video and audio, they are transmitted through the industry standards H.264 and AAC codecs, which provided the best quality.
Although the streaming service is still under development, it is only available as a technology demonstration. In other words, the end users are still unable to run a video source. However, when the protocol has been finalized the experts expect BitTorrent to allow user generation of content. The company admits that the experience may not be perfect in the beginning, but they will strive to improve it, and always welcome users’ input and experiences.
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