Comments on: EZTV Trials TV-Torrent Streaming

By: bodhisattva

bodhisattva — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:51:04 +0000

I started tinkering around some myself. Not a lot of seeds on this public torrent at the moment, but quite a few seedboxes. It should be a good display of how things can initially get started. I’m in the US where the seede boxes are located, so it worked for me to my home swarmplayer with no issues at all. I’m sure those who are some distance away will have different results, but if anyone wants to give this a test, feel free:

http://zombtracker.the-zomb.com/tstream.php?id=24354&name=Syd.Barrett.Crazy.Diamond.2008-05-23.BBC4.Omnibus.tstream

By: meh

meh — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:22:39 +0000

I think that technology like this could really only work if you have a big distributor working to seed the files, like a tv company. That way the hit and runners dont matter, yet everyone still helps each other.

Call me old fashioned, but I dont like streaming that much, I like downloading it and having it. Also I hate watching stuff on my computer (I send it over to my HDTV) so if there was a cool interface in which I could choose to stream easily, I would, but im not gonna dig through torrents just to stream them.. im a couch potato.

By: Michaelangelo

Michaelangelo — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:16:56 +0000

Whats is the big deal, AntTV did this years ago.

By: moose

moose — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:55:14 +0000

It’s an interesting concept and I’m looking forward to “next week”, the promised release date for SwarmPlayer for Mac. (I just wonder how for many weeks it’s been “due next week”.)

Even if the technology’s not perfect, it’s a step in the right direction. Television executives are sloooooowly getting on the bandwagon of non-traditional distribution methods, as most networks now stream some or all of their programs online. The problem here, and this is more a problem of antiquated copyright laws, is that legal streams are only available in the country that owns the network. I’d love to legally stream NBC programs from the UK, and when I get back to Canada, I’d love to watch Dr Who on BBC’s iPlayer.

I love to see technology developing to allow global sharing of media, and hopefully as the technology progresses, lawmakers will start to move in a more progressive direction as well.

By: Justin Freman

Justin Freman — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:47:57 +0000

Wow, that was quite an interesting article was it not?

JT
http://www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com

By: quality

quality — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:09:02 +0000

at 100k per second that works out to around half the bitrate of standard torrent files, i wonder how the picture looks?

http://ladysmooth.com/

By: Flabberjack

Flabberjack — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:11:35 +0000

if i were EZTV i would have split the two swarms so that the “normal” torrent users dont mix with the .tstream users

And yes earliest-first in a normal torrent swarm would be less than optimal and it would slow down downloading. But in this case i don’t think its relevant since everyone wants the same pieces and you have the entire length of the movie to download it instead of trying to download it as fast as possible and then watch it.

By: Azriel

Azriel — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:56:23 +0000

zoink.it the site that is hosting EZTV’s tstream files is currently down but will be back online soon apparently.

In regards to some of the comments here. EZTV has a huge initial seeding swarm therefore brand-new torrents will stream fine. Also older torrents with good ratios will stream fine. However, it’s the semi-new torrents with very large numbers of leechers and relatively few seeders that will have difficulties.

By: Flabberjack

Flabberjack — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:38:40 +0000

yes i agree… this will NEVER work on public torrents because there are to many people with to low upload and the rest think just like you!

a program can only be as good as the people using it so don’t blame the software just because people are assholes

on the other hand it would work realy well on a private site since people there actualy seed!.

By: "your response"

"your response" — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:28:27 +0000

@Flabberjack

I think you’ll probably be right there. I hope you are too. It’s just a concern really, and maybe an irrational one. ;)