FWIW, LimeWire tries to determine if the file being transferred is previewable, and if so will prefer swarming from the beginning of the file (but also swarm from random sections). For unpreviewable files, or if the computer's been idle for a certain amount of time, the entire process is random (but attempts to keep the number of chunks to a small number, building off 8 or so random sections of the file).
Sam On 10/26/06, David Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Red Swoosh (www.redswoosh.net) does sequential P2P swarming for "on demand" streaming video playback. For example: http://edn.redswoosh.net/www.redswoosh.net/AskANinja.wmv What's the difference between "chunks prioritization within time window" and "sequential downloading"? How can you stream without sequential downloading? -david ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Florent THIERY Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:54 AM To: theory and practice of decentralized computer networks Subject: [p2p-hackers] BT2 & Question http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BitTorrent/message/5481 I don't get why they are not implementing a Bittorrent variant for play-while-downloading (chunks prioritisation within time window). Read a paper once about bittorrent mod, saying that's more efficient than sequential downloading. Ever heard of swarming-enabled p2p protocol for on demand ? _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
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