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This may be interesting to some. I recently discovered AllCast.com which has developed a p2p streaming solution. Unfortunately they decided to use WMA due to it's video capability but hopefully they could be presuaded to switch to Vorbis later when Tarkin is available. For audio though, it appears a good way to reduce bandwidth requirements at the broadcasting end and potentially

it could be a bit of a minefield - i seem to remember reading of the requests for some fairly wide patents a couple of years back by um, vtrails, on anything that involves browsers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/isoc-ny/message/20 the most effective multicast sevice i've seen is swarmcast - a slashdot thread on the topic of software distro has recent words from the author http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/29/1647255&mode=thread and the fruits of his labors are on http://onionnetworks.com/components.html Ross Levis wrote: > This may be interesting to some. > >...

...be a bit of a minefield - i seem to remember reading > of the requests for some fairly wide patents a couple of years > back by um, vtrails, on anything that involves browsers > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/isoc-ny/message/20 > > the most effective multicast sevice i've seen is swarmcast - > a slashdot thread on the topic of software distro has > recent words from the author > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/29/1647255&mode=thread > and the fruits of his labors are on > http://onionnetworks.com/components.html > > Ross Levis wrote: > > > T...

A friend and I were recently talking about the possible downfall of Internet radio, and as everyone seems to these days, decided that a nice solution would be to set up a P2P broadcasting solution. However, streaming has a completely different set of requirements than file sharing, with bandwidth and QOS become much larger issues. As such, we started to realize that a new audio compression scheme