P2P Streaming Television

All streaming media players buffer segments of audio/video streams before actually showing them. After buffering a segment a media player shows it, and at the same time the media player starts buffering the next segment. Ideally there shouldn't be any sound or video frame freezes. Unfortunately in reality internet servers and internet channels often get overloaded and users get sound and/or video frame freezes. That is where peer-to-peer (p2p) technology can help. Software like PPLive, PPStream, Coolstreaming, QQLive, SopCast, Feidian, TV Ants allows users to watch streaming media (TV channels) based on BitTorrent (BT) p2p technology.

PeerStreaming is an on-demand peer-to-peer (P2P) media streaming system. The behavior of a PeerStreaming client is very much like an ordinary media player: it streams and plays whatever media the user desires, starting at whatever point he/she desires. However under the hood, the media is delivered from multiple peers to the client. The serving peers can be the media server, but more commonly are the clients that have received the media in a previous streaming session.Leveraging the network and storage resources of the P2P network and retrieving a majority part of the media from nearby peers, PeerStreaming greatly improves the streaming media quality, reduces the server load, and eases the traffic on the network.

There are many kinds of software program , based on P2P technology, allow you to watch streaming television or other media on your PC via the Internet.Users take a closer look at the program and its capabilities. The software is available for free download on the site.