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BitTorrent Live – A New Peer-To-Peer Live Video Streaming Solution

March 13, 2013
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BitTorrent the peer-to-peer exchange network has launched the beta version of a new video streaming service dubbed BitTorrent Live.Originally announced back in February 2012, at MusicTech, San Francisco. The beta version of BitTorrent Live has just made live online.

How it works

First of all, this is a live streaming. The functioning is decentralized, so the data flows from one user to another via peer-to-peer BitTorrent network, each viewer re-broadcasts your live stream so with every new viewer, your stream is amplified  Therefore, the more viewers, the better your stream.

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All this reduces infrastructure costs and opens up many possibilities for streaming, such as an alternative to allow television channels to broadcast their programs with lower overheads. Eventually, users will be able to share a stream from their webcam, or from another computer application, even from smartphones and tablets. BitTorrent Live is in open beta so anyone can join in and start streaming live web casts.

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BitTorrent Live has the ability to become a fantastic new live streaming system for TV shows, concerts, video bloggers of even an alternative to Google Hangouts. What do you think about BitTorrent Live? Is it a great new string to your bow, or is it just another technology that will fall by the way side? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below.

BitTorrent Live – A New Peer-To-Peer Live Video Streaming Solution
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By Kevin François Bile Ebelle
Kevin François is a student of Medicine in Cameroon. He is a geek, and is passionate about everything related directly or indirectly to Opensource. You can find him on Google+, and on Linux Mint Social Network.

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  • https://refu-archive.kevquirk.com/ Kev Quirk

    Pretty cool! I think this will fill a very large niche in the market. Having a free, open peer-to-peer live streaming system will benefit many video bloggers.

    However, the “amplification” worries me. What if you only have a couple of viewers? Does that mean the stream will be poor? I suppose there’s only one way to find out…

    • Bob

      Yes that would be the case – very well seeded stuff would stream well, whereas if you only had a few seeds you could encounter a lot of buffering. Ideally more ‘official’ content providers would be wise to set up several high speed dedicated seeds, to ensure content remains available.