Comments on: Fabchannel experiments with BitTorrent-powered concerts

By: Mario van Breda

Mario van Breda — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:06:26 +0000

RTV Channel concentrating on British American music, culture and entertainment.
Pointing primarily at the 16 – 24 age group. RTV Channel, streaming live a online.
RTV Channel broadcasts very popular Music Videos.

By: alan

alan — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:09:35 +0000

Hi all!
I found a music concert site which is pretty cool: YouSwitch.tv
You can look at four video streams simultaneously with 4 different camera angles during a live show. You just have to choose the stream you want to watch. (if you want to see the drummer, the guitarist during a soloâ€¦) The nice thing is, switching allows you also to create a mixture of individual streams, and thus, you build your own montage of the pre-recorded concert and keep it. It seems that they are only in the beta testing version of the site and the final design will be available soon with more exclusive artist performances. It’ll be cool to direct your favourite band concert footage, you don’t need to have a production truck.
Cheers
http://www.youswitch.tv
Al.

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» Fabchannel experiments with BitTorrent-powered concerts — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:49:44 +0000

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By: Matt Oakes

Matt Oakes — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:18:10 +0000

Wow thats a really nice website. I love it. Nice one TorrentFreak :D

By: clowny

clowny — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:46:01 +0000

Interesting.
Being able to share files that are not yet completed does have potential use in the bittorrent world, not only for streaming video or audio.

For example, individuals on the east coast who capture popular HDTV shows and encode them in XviD/x264 formats could potentially start sharing these files as soon as the encoding starts (on the fly). This would be a much more efficient way to distribute these shows among top sites, which would also mean a much quicker public release.

However, this seems like a major change from the bittorrent protocol, considering bittorrent is mainly based on the analysis of an entire file or files, doing a hash check, and splitting this up into smaller pieces to distribute.

This brings up the question of error checking with “streaming” data. Since there is no torrent which contains hash data to error check pieces, I wonder how the integrity of the data would be preserved?

Anyways.. just ramblings of an uniformed clown…

Here is some info on “tribler streaming”:

http://www.tribler.org/test_streaming/index.php?n=Site.Algorithm
http://tribler.org/test_streaming/pub/tribler_streaming_explained.pdf

btw, Ernesto, when are we going to get a good article covering the HR HDTV scene from you!? Keep up the good work.