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Zattoo

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Simon
on May 3, 2008
in Internet and Video
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zattoo.png Wow, Zattoo is amazing…! Thanks popey for the heads up. Zattoo is a peer-to-peer television streaming program. It’s got a selection of UK Terrestrial channels, BBC One, Two, ITV, Channel4 and Five and some other random channels to choose from. It’s quite handy for watching Neighbours without having to go all the way downstairs…! It uses IP Geo-location stuff to deliver you the channels for your country supporting a bunch of other channels in other countries in the EU. It occasionally blips but this the problem with streaming stuff, I suppose the more users who are watching a channel at anyone the better, since it uses magical clever peer-to-peer technologies to distribute the content. It’s another good demonstration of p2p technologies being used for everyone’s benefit :) It’s got clients for Windows, Mac and Linux which means it’s better than other similar projects like Joost which doesn’t support the same channels either.

(p.s. I’m also demonstrating the NextGEN Gallery plugin for Wordpress in this post.. Hence the web2.0 style full-size image if you click it, nice!)

Bambuser

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Simon
on April 12, 2008
in Internet, Nokia and Video
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bambuserWhat’s Bambuser? It’s another random application I found which allows my phone (and 62 others) to stream live video to the Internet. Works best over wifi of course, but I’ve not yet tested it on the GPRS/3G connection. According to the website it shouldn’t be a problem but the quality isn’t going to be as good. The lag from real “real” time to video on the page is around 5-10 seconds which is pretty good.

All live streams are recorded and saved to the site, I’ve put a little demo video below to show the video/audio quality. It’s very quick to install and very simple to use. The site isn’t that widely used at the moment so when you start streaming live, your video is on the main page so basically, make sure you’re doing something interesting. I saw a user on there recording an album and streaming them mixing and editing it live so that was quite interesting to watch.

I read YouTube is to start offering live video this year as well. I wonder if they’ll be using the same sorts of technology?

Maybe I’ll start doing a “vlog” or two.. We’ll see so stay tuned.