July 21, 2008
Net TV technology seeks testers
Testers are being sought for technology that may help TV migrate to the net, writes the BBC.
"In a bid to create a system that can support huge audiences, P2P Next's SwarmPlayer draws on the widely used BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology.
In such a system those watching a video share the data they are downloading with others, peers, who want to watch the same show.
The SwarmPlayer lets people download TV shows to watch later, lets them watch video as it is being downloaded and can even cope with live broadcasts.
The P2P Next project now wants thousands of people to install the software to see how it handles large audiences and whether picture quality suffers as the numbers of users rises.
... The EU has put 19m euros into the project hoping the software the team creates will become a Europe-wide standard for broadcasters."
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