[cma-l] DAB Switchover

[Tony Bailey]

If you want a peer to peer system, try Streamer, it's a tree based daisy
chain and the only downside seems to be an effective bit rate reduction
caused by sharing the stream around - it simply means using less bits,
if your listeners are watching their bills, something you would need to
do anyway if you are paying for the bandwidth on a shoutcast server.

It's very easy to set up and runs happily alongside your primary audio
server.  It's only windows, although I run it on a Linux server using
Wine.  It doesn't even need a fixed IP address, although if you have a
router it works better if you set up port forwarding.

http://www.streamerp2p.com/


Tony Bailey


London Chinese Radio wrote:
> With regards to economies of scale, I agree that most internet streaming is
> one-listener-one-stream. But multicast technologies are available, and also
> - dare I say it? - Bit Torrent offers a really workable solution. The
> problem is, there are too many pirates on the net (ie most "normal" people)
> who downloaded too much illegal music/video with Bit Torrent, and now it is
> associated with this, and treated as a pariah.
> 
> But Bit Torrent DNA <http://www.bittorrent.com/dna> offers a real solution,
> with free, secure, content delivery which does give you economies of scale.
> It also gives you stats and more. It's just such a pity that things like DAB
> have been funded when other solutions have received little attention.
> 
> The impression I get is that the govt/big cheeses/bbc/commercial radio *don't
> want* the internet to be the medium of content delivery, because if that
> happens, suddenly it's a level playing field, and they can't price us out of
> the competition by building expensive multiplexes and regulating it with
> expensive application processes, or restricting available frequencies.
> 
> Maybe I'm wrong, it would be nice.
> 
> 
> Peter Vautier
> London Chinese Radio
> 



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