Re: FW: [backstage] CoolStream/PPLive

[Angelo]

Well from my limited knowledge and actual experience of the actual platform itself, the more users that logon to a certain programme the highier the quality the stream should be since they share the stream and then grab the missing bits from other computers. The poor quality may be in part due to my 1mg (which isn't sdsl) broadband connection at home. This is something which levels out after about 10-15 minutes of streaming though.

I should note that I dont have any problems with the sopcast programme so I assume it is just that the sopcast platform (sopcast.org/download) provides a better form of streaming then the pplive one.

On 02/11/05, Murray Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

do you know if ppllive is worse because of the technology itself, or just because it's more popular and hence with more people using it the capacity bottlenecks?

 

(namely, for most of us europeans, upload is a tiny fraction of download...)

 

ps. honestly : no hidden agenda or anything, just curious....

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Angelo
Sent: 01 November 2005 19:31
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Subject: Re: [backstage] CoolStream/PPLive

Hmm not sure if I should be talking about this but ...

While the PPlive platform is pretty impressive, the quality of streams are poor considering some are broadcast over an 800k stream. Just to illustrate most of the streams are only at a quality which is viewable in a quater size real player screen. Even then, there are considerable breaks in the stream, and you need to log roughly 10 mins before the programme starts, in order to allow the stream to synchronise. A slightly better platform is the sopcast programme (www.sopcast.org). While the channel list for this platform is a lot more limited the streams are consistent.

On 31/10/05, Tom Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

cos we're looking at scalable & legal ways to broadcast live TV on
the internet, and while persuading network providers of the benefits
of multicasting is the obvious long term answer, I'd like to make
sure we're keeping an eye of other options... however (seeminlgy)
dodgy their current manifestations!


Why do you ask Tom?

On 27/10/05, Tom Loosemore
<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoolStreaming> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoolStreaming

<http://www3.pplive.com/english/> http://www3.pplive.com/english/

anyone played with these?

(no, this isn't a trick question...)




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