Dossy Shiobara writes: > On 2008.03.17, Rene Bartsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That lead me to the idea of integrating Bittorrent (with support of > > Distributed Hash Tables) into Adobe Flash. > > BitTorrent isn't suitable for realtime streaming of media. You cannot > guarantee at the beginning that every block will be available by the > time you're ready to consume it. This will result in a really poor user > experience.
Well, but when you're streaming through a TCP connection, you cannot guarantee at the beginning that every block will be available by the time you're ready to consume it. The biggest difference between TCP and BitTorrent is that TCP delivers data in the same order you sent it, which is the order in which the user wants it, whereas BitTorrent delivers in random order, so you potentially have to wait until the very end of reception. Then again, people's typical response to insufficient bandwidth (slow delivery) is to click on pause until the entire stream has been received. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com | Software that needs Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | documentation is software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-323-1241 | that needs repair. Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog | _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
