[SGVLUG] Anyone want to embrace and extend AOL?

[Mike Fedyk]

Emerson, Tom wrote:
> Some key concepts I noted as I skimmed the first one
>
>    -- uses a peer-to-peer model
>    -- uses a "plug-in" to ensure DRM safety and compliance
>    -- it will be "streaming" video, not download-and-play-at-will.
I went to an interview at a content streaming hosting company, and after 
walking out I couldn't help thinking that bittorrent should be combined 
with streaming.

Even for live events you could split the stream into chunks and then 
distribute those chunks with standard bittorrent distribution.  Of 
course adding a bit of smarts to bittorrent for streaming content would 
probably make it work even better than that.  Not to mention it would 
use Vorbis and Theora as the standard codecs. :)

I know there are already some open source streming projects, but I have 
not researched that problem space at all.  Anyone know what's happening 
there?