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P2ptv
P2PTV refers to peer-to-peer (P2P) software applications designed to redistribute video streams in real time on a P2P network; the distributed video streams are typically TV channels from all over the world but may also come from other sources. The draw to these applications is significant because they have the potential to make any TV channel globally available by any individual feeding the stream into the network where each peer joining to watch the video is a relay to other peer viewers, allowing a scalable distribution among a large audience with no incremental cost for the source. Technology and use In a P2PTV system, each user, while downloading a video stream, is simultaneously also uploading that stream to other users, thus contributing to the overall available Bandwidth (computing), bandwidth. The arriving streams are typically a few minutes time-delayed compared to the original sources. The video quality of the channels usually depends on how many users are watching; the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zattoo
Zattoo is a TV platform which states that it can be used for IP-based transmission of television channels and video on demand content to different devices. The company headquarters are located in Zurich and it has an additional office in Berlin. Zattoo states that the business operates in two business areas: TV streaming operations for customers in countries including Germany and Switzerland and also a business to business service which works with telecommunication companies. History Zattoo was created to stream the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. On 20 April 2007, Zattoo launched in Denmark with ten channels and started piloting in the United Kingdom. On 4 October 2007, Zattoo reached one million registered users in Europe. Since June 2015, Zattoo Germany integrates an on-demand TV function, which enables viewers to watch a broadcast up to seven days after their TV broadcast in full length. The UEFA Euro 2016 provided Zattoo with a new user record: a total of 1.8 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miro (software)
Miro (formerly named Democracy Player or DTV) is an audio player (software), audio, Video player (software), video player and Internet television application developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation. It runs on Microsoft Windows, macOS, FreeBSD and Linux and supports most known video file formats. It offers both audio and video, some in HD quality. The Participatory Culture Foundation no longer develops Miro. The last version (6.0) was released in 2013 and is no longer functioning correctly because of changes to the YouTube API. Miro is free software, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, GPL-2.0-or-later. Features Miro can automatically download videos from RSS-based "channels", manage them and play them. The application is designed to mesh with other Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) products such as Video Bomb, a Folksonomy, social tagging video website, and the Channel Channel, a TV guide for Internet television. Miro integrates an RSS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypp
Gnav is a traditional Danish and Norwegian social game that has been played with either special cards or wooden pieces with similar motifs. Gnav packs appeared after 1820 and the game was popular until c. 1920.Jensen (1980), pp. 128–129. The game can be played by 20 or more players, and a minimum of two. Today, only the playing card version is available in Norway. Gnav descends from the 18th century Italian card game of Cuccù, played with bespoke packs, which, in turn is based on a much older French game called Mécontent, the precursor to Coucou. History The origins of Gnav lie in the French children's card game of Mécontent (''Malcontent'' i.e. "unhappy") whose first references date to the early 16th century.Depaulis (1981), pp. 23–24. This game had migrated to Italy by the mid-16th century where it was named "Malcontento" but it was in the early 18th century that the first dedicated decks for what became known as Cuccù (Cuckoo) appeared; the pack consisting of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funshion
Funshion is a Chinese peer-to-peer streaming video network software and website. Target users are on the Chinese mainland. The vast majority of content is from East Asia, mostly Mainland China, Japan, Korea. It provides a free streaming service and also has its own brand of smart TV. Company Beijing Funshion Online Technology Co Ltd was established in 2005. The company initially focused on broadcast, content search and distributing streaming media. Funshion Online was officially founded on September 28, 2005, with headquarters in Beijing, China. The company later partnered with SMG's BesTV. In January 2016, Luo Jiangchun was Funshion's CEO, and the company was working on product development with other companies such as Shanghai Oriental Pearl Media Co Ltd, Shenzhen MTC Co Ltd, Haier, Panda Electronics Group, and Gome Electrical Appliances Holding Ltd. On December 10, 2016, Funshion released its first smart TV model. Applications Funshion Online Technologies Ltd devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afreeca
SOOP, previously known as AfreecaTV (, short for "Any FREE broadCAsting") (), is a video live-streaming service. It is owned and operated by Soop Co., Ltd. in South Korea, which was rebranded from Nowcom's AfreecaTV Co., Ltd, itself split with ZettaMedia in 2011. Launched in 2005, the platform was listed 4th in the "Asia's 200 Best Under A Billion" list by Forbes in July 2019. Initially focused on Korean viewers, it began offering an English-language interface for international users in 2012. In 2024, with its parent company's rebrand, AFTV was relaunched as SOOP, offering two distinct services for Korea and Global users. History SOOP initially started as a W beta service on May 11, 2005, and was officially named "AFREECA” on March 9, 2006. The site mainly re-transmits TV channels but also allows users to upload their own videos and shows. Functions such as broadcasting, viewing, channel listing, live chatting, and discussion boards are provided. Users are required to instal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribler
Tribler is an open source decentralized BitTorrent client which allows anonymous peer-to-peer by default. Tribler is based on the BitTorrent protocol and uses an overlay network for content searching. Due to this overlay network, Tribler does not require an external website or indexing service to discover content. The user interface of Tribler is very basic and focused on ease of use instead of diversity of features. Tribler is available for Linux, Windows, and OS X. Tribler has run trials for a video streamer known as SwarmPlayer. History The name Tribler stems from the word ''tribe'', referring to the usage of social networks in this P2P client. The first version of Tribler was an enhancement of ''ABC'' aka ''Yet Another BitTorrent Client''. In 2009, the development team behind Tribler stated that their efforts for the coming years were focused on the integration of Tribler with television hardware. In 2014, with the release of version 6.3.1, a custom built-in onion ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PULSE (P2PTV)
PULSE is a P2PTV application developed by the European FP7 NAPA-WINE (Network-Aware P2P-TV Application over Wise Networks) research consortium. PULSE stands for ''Peer-to-Peer Unstructured Live Streaming Experiment'' and is a peer-to-peer live streaming system designed to operate in scenarios where the bandwidth resources of nodes can be highly heterogeneous and variable over time, as is the case for the Internet. History The principles and basic algorithms of PULSE were proposed by Fabio Pianese. The prototype was developed by Diego Perino and released with a LGPL The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers and companies to use and integrate a software component released under the LGPL into their own ... Software License. The development has been taken over by the NAPA-WINE consortium in 2008, and version 0.2.2 can be downloaded via anonymous svn from the NAPA-WI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ace Stream
Ace Stream is a peer-to-peer multimedia streaming protocol, built using BitTorrent technology. Ace Stream has been recognized by sources as a potential method for broadcasting and viewing bootlegged live video streams. The protocol functions as both a client and a server. When users stream a video feed using Ace Stream, they are simultaneously downloading from peers and uploading the same video to other peers. History Ace Stream began under the name TorrentStream as a pilot project to use BitTorrent technology to stream live video Video is an Electronics, electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving picture, moving image, visual Media (communication), media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, whi .... In 2013 TorrentStream, was re-released under the name ACE Stream. References Computer networking Applications of distributed computing Cloud storage Distributed algorithms Distributed d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FOSS
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software modified or not to everyone free of charge. FOSS is an inclusive umbrella term encompassing free software and open-source software. The rights guaranteed by FOSS originate from the "Four Essential Freedoms" of '' The Free Software Definition'' and the criteria of ''The Open Source Definition''. All FOSS can have publicly available source code, but not all source-available software is FOSS. FOSS is the opposite of proprietary software, which is licensed restrictively or has undisclosed source code. The historical precursor to FOSS was the hobbyist and academic public domain software ecosystem of the 1960s to 1980s. Free and open-source operating systems such as Linux distributions and descendants of BSD are widely used, powering millions of servers, desktops, smartphones, and other devices. Free-software licenses and open-source li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akamai Technologies
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American company specialized in content delivery networkJ. Dilley, B. Maggs, J. Parikh, H. Prokop, R. Sitaraman, and B. Weihl. (CDN), cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, and cloud services. It is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. History The company was named after '' akamai'', which means 'clever', or more colloquially, 'cool' in Hawaiian. Co-founder Daniel M. Lewin found the term in a Hawaiian–English dictionary after a colleague's suggestion. Akamai Technologies entered the 1998 MIT $50K competition with a business proposition based on their research on consistent hashing and was selected as one of the finalists. By August 1998, they had developed a working prototype, and with the help of Jonathan Seelig and Randall Kaplan, they took steps to incorporate the company. Akamai Technologies was incorporated on August 20, 1998. In late 1998 and early 1999, a group of business professionals and scientists joined the founding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streaming Media
Streaming media refers to multimedia delivered through a Computer network, network for playback using a Media player (other), media player. Media is transferred in a ''stream'' of Network packet, packets from a Server (computing), server to a client-server model, client and is rendered in real-time; this contrasts with file downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains an entire media file before consuming the content. Streaming is more commonly used for video on demand, streaming television, and music streaming services over the Internet. While streaming is most commonly associated with multimedia from a remote server over the Internet, it also includes offline multimedia between devices on a local area network. For example, using DLNA and a home server, or in a personal area network between two devices using Bluetooth (which uses radio waves rather than Internet Protocol, IP). Online streaming was initially popularized by RealNetworks and Microsoft in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
