BitTorrent Live Beta

**DEAD_MAN_WALKING** · 02-12-2011, 18:04

BitTorrent Live Beta

About

While in Beta, BitTorrent Live requires that you update to the latest version of the client before continuing. Please do so by clicking the link below and following the on screen instructions.

BitTorrent Live is a new peer-to-peer live streaming protocol. It allows content creators to scale their reach to audiences of millions with near-zero latencies and minimal infrastructure investment.

Leveraging the lessons of the original BitTorrent protocol, BitTorrent Live has been designed from scratch as the perfect means of sharing events to the masses in real-time, but without the astronomical bandwidth requirements that traditionally constrain content creators. Every viewer that joins a swarm extends its reach by sharing pieces of the video to other viewers. Media is delivered with stunningly low delay by utilizing a UDP Screamer protocol. Video and audio are transmitted using the industry standard H.264 and AAC codecs, providing the highest quality.

BitTorrent Live is still under heavy development, and as such, is available as a technology demonstration only. The ability to run a video source is not currently available to end users. Once the protocol has been finalized we expect to allow user generation of content. The experience may not be perfect yet, but we strive daily to improve it, and welcome your input and experiences.

Video

A old video of BitTorrent Live in action but things have changed alot since then.

BitTorrent Live Download

Windows - http://s3.amazonaws.com/live-installer/BTLive.msi
Mac - http://s3.amazonaws.com/live-installer/BTLive.pkg
Linux - http://s3.amazonaws.com/live-installer/BTLive.tar.gz

Watch - http://live.bittorrent.com/stream.ht...bittorrent.com

Home Page - http://live.bittorrent.com/

**Admin** · 02-12-2011, 18:33

Made it a sticky, they're testing for a while now so hope it will be usefull in the future

**actonbhoyrob** · 04-12-2011, 18:51

I downloaded this and when i go to open it it dosent open

**DEAD_MAN_WALKING** · 04-12-2011, 19:50

Originally Posted by actonboyrob

I downloaded this and when i go to open it it dosent open

It just sits in you system tray mate there is no GUI to open its all run from your web browser...

**actonbhoyrob** · 05-12-2011, 20:58

Originally Posted by DEAD_MAN_WALKING

It just sits in you system tray mate there is no GUI to open its all run from your web browser...

AHHH now i see it LOL silly me thanks dmw

**algi** · 12-12-2011, 16:20

Link,and leave it on for helping the seeds

http://live.bittorrent.com/stream.ht...bittorrent.com

**algi** · 04-02-2012, 09:06

Keep on helping.In my opinion it's extremely important

- http://live.bittorrent.com/

**algi** · 03-05-2012, 18:25

...stay informed!

**DEAD_MAN_WALKING** · 04-05-2012, 13:22

Im starting to give up on this project now its been in the works now for years and still nothing plus it uses soon to be defunct flash...

**algi** · 06-05-2012, 11:03

C'mon,we have to trust Bram Cohen,haven't we?!
There is an option for letting the program working on background for helping.I use it,the CPU involved is "nothing".

**Stes** · 15-06-2012, 23:02

Does it work the same way as StreamTorrent?

**DEAD_MAN_WALKING** · 15-06-2012, 23:32

Originally Posted by Stes

Does it work the same way as StreamTorrent?

Read this....

BitTorrent Live is a new peer-to-peer live streaming protocol. It allows content creators to scale their reach to audiences of millions with near-zero latencies and minimal infrastructure investment.

Leveraging the lessons of the original BitTorrent protocol, BitTorrent Live has been designed from scratch as the perfect means of sharing events to the masses in real-time, but without the astronomical bandwidth requirements that traditionally constrain content creators. Every viewer that joins a swarm extends its reach by sharing pieces of the video to other viewers. Media is delivered with stunningly low delay by utilizing a UDP Screamer protocol. Video and audio are transmitted using the industry standard H.264 and AAC codecs, providing the highest quality.

BitTorrent Live is still under heavy development, and as such, is available as a technology demonstration only. The ability to run a video source is not currently available to end users. Once the protocol has been finalized we expect to allow user generation of content. The experience may not be perfect yet, but we strive daily to improve it, and welcome your input and experiences.

**Stes** · 17-06-2012, 13:41

I tried to search for it and it doesn't seem to be mentioned whether Bittorrent Live is p2p (serverless) or centralized (with server)? If it is not serverless it will not be better than StreamTorrent since StreamTorrent is pure p2p, it will just be another client like SopCast and totally controlled.

**algi** · 12-10-2012, 16:57

BitTorrent Live required an upload speed of 2Mb. If you're having issues watching the stream, this could be the problem.

This is a good reason to give it a try...mainly thinking of nowdays...

**algi** · 15-10-2012, 11:14

C'mon!There are also jobs available!

**algi** · 22-10-2012, 16:58

Catchup,you might find something more interesting of what you thought

**DEAD_MAN_WALKING** · 23-10-2012, 12:52

Originally Posted by algi

Catchup,you might find something more interesting of what you thought

Dont hold your breathe algi mate still no sight of a client side broadcaster for this or if there will ever be...?

Quote from Aaron Cohen a software engineer on the BitTorrent Live project.

Originally Posted by Aaron Cohen

For those not yet familiar, how would you describe BitTorrent Live?

BitTorrent Live is an entirely new protocol. It’s totally new from the ground up, but it uses some of the same basic concepts as the original BitTorrent protocol including the distributed peer-to-peer network – except that it’s specifically designed for low-latency video streaming. That (last part) necessitated, more or less, an entire re-write.

How long have we been hearing this sh!t now, the way it looks at the moment is if your a DJ and want to promote your music...?

**algi** · 23-10-2012, 18:54

I am afraid you're right,but I still hope(I wrote to him

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**Rokec** · 27-01-2013, 13:25

BitTorrent Live is a powerful new live web streaming technology. Designed to eliminate barriers to broadcast, Live leverages parts of the BitTorrent protocol to deliver high quality video to large audiences - with significant reductions of infrastructure costs and network delays.

BitTorrent Live is currently under development in Beta. Do you regularly webcast? Do you want to help us invent the future of live streaming? See if you qualify to participate in our Beta program.

Contribute to our Beta Program: Become a Live Broadcaster

We are currently testing and refining our technology with a small group of live broadcasters. Beta broadcasters are given a BitTorrent Live account, allowing them to stream content to large audiences across the web, at no cost.

Want to join our Beta program? We're looking for broadcasters who:

Stream video content constantly
Have a large audience
Are interested in shaping a new powerful streaming service

Sign up to see if you qualify.

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I don't know, I have mixed feelings, they want to have some information about streamer and stream. This probably indicating that they will be under the influence of DMCA.
I hesitate a lot, I don't want to send information they want. Something tells me that this doesn't smell as it should

**DEAD_MAN_WALKING** · 27-01-2013, 14:01

It would be nice if someone could set up a dodgie account to test it...

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