Bram Cohen, the inventor of the BitTorrent protocol, has come up with another potentially pathbreaking P2P protocol. This time to stream media realtime and to kill TVs off for good. He demoed it at SF MusicTech Summit and aims to shoot down Television business with this apparantly cheaper alternative.
BitTorrent Live
BitTorrent Live will let you stream video over the internet, transferring bits of data from one peer to another and reassembling the bits into a stream. This will vastly reduce the resource utilization at the broadcaster end and can reach a far larger audience compared to streaming options available today. There will practically be an amount of latency, but in effect BT Live can provide you with a real time broadcast. Here is a demo video from SF MusicTech Summit:
A beta release has been made available for all desktop platforms and stream can be viewed from a webpage where it is embedded in flash. Bram Cohen has stated that his aim is to kill off Television with BitTorrent Live and that he is already talking to broadcasters.
Trying it out
Here is how you can try out BitTorrent Live:
- Install the BTLive programme.
- Install Flash 11 if you do not have it yet.
- Start the BTLive application and move on to view streams at live.bittorrent.com in your browser.
There could be potential hiccups. An upload speed of 2Mbps is prescribed. Also remember, BTLive is still in Beta stage !!
BTLive being really cheap and an openly available technology, could be really big for both broadcasters as well as the audience. Lets hope it takes off.
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