On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I can't wait for the day the BBC embrace proper peer-to-peer for streaming > > TV (and the ISPs sort themselves out with a little more of that proposed > > intelligent routing). A TVAnts-esque (BBC branded) app would be bloody > > marvellous. > > > As the BBC News 24/BBC World feeds on http://www.livestation.com/ show. > I don't run anything Microsoft at home (well, not on a regular basis), so therefore haven't seen Livestation. Good that it works for you chaps; sorry I'm clearly missing out. (BBC man in not-running-Microsoft shock, lest I need to make that clear!) I'm not convinced about P2P stuff for live streaming. I've experience with it elsewhere, and it saves little bandwidth costs and adds a whole heap more complication. (It's also possible to hijack streams.) Multicast would be even better: it's far closer to the most sensible way of broadcasting, which is a big stick in a field. Thankfully, for radio, we're already doing it - www.bbc.co.uk/multicast On a separate note, this post is coming to you courtesy of Ubuntu 8.04 on my little Asus Eee. After a little patching for the wifi (which inexplicably works for WPA but not for WEP), it works, and works well. -- http://james.cridland.net/ | http://www.mediauk.com/ Media UK is a Not At All Bad Ltd production. http://notatallbad.ltd.uk/legal_info/
