Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by streptomycin 4491 days ago
The most common use of p2p streaming today is pirating live sporting events. Will there be any problems with using Swirl for that purpose?
2 comments

Hi, I'm the author of swirl, such as it is. In principle there's nothing stopping you from streaming anything with PPSPP. The current erlang implementation could run on an android tablet for example. And if you had a pcell nearby http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/20/steve-perlman-pcell-is-rea... then b/w really wouldn't be a constraint.

There's a fair bit of work remaining, in particular browser/client support is something I've not even considered, it's not my speciality.

I'm sure VLC and Firefox etc would be awesome clients, but one step at a time.

What's the difference with a mobile peercast ?