Comments on: Zattoo to Broadcast World Cup

By: Kyle Mulka’s Weblog » justin.tv still working

Kyle Mulka’s Weblog » justin.tv still working — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:25:52 +0000

[…] It’s only the second day of justin.tv, but I’m surprised its still working. It was posted on TechCrunch last night. I have a feeling it will get really popular, and they won’t be able to support the amount of traffic they will be getting. Looks like its time for Zattoo to step up and help out, (see previous Zattoo post) assuming they are going to have issues. Who know’s maybe they won’t have bandwidth issues and will be just fine. In the style of YouTube, you can embed the live feed right into your blog like I’ve done below. […]

By: rookie

rookie — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:23:08 +0000

The quality of Zattoo is indeed not very exciting, but acceptable I guess (if you have nothing else). There is certainly better out there. However, most other P2P clients are not as easy to use (yet), but that may change.

By: mk

mk — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:13:27 +0000

I doubt whether Zattoo can offer the same quality as Cubiworld, another company based in Switzerland. I have a demo account there, and the quality is just awesome!

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:06:06 +0000

How well does it actually work? There was some comments on the web about some quality issues with one of their channels (SF2). Also, how many users do they currently have, and what is the highest number of users who has watched a channel *at the same time*? Does anyone know how to actually use the system. The invite system apparently doesn’t work for most people (or only for those living in Switzerland?).

By: Kyle Mulka

Kyle Mulka — Sun, 28 May 2006 19:59:44 +0000

I'm not sure on the details of their implementation. I do know that for this to work each client has to be streaming to mulitple people at the same time, but I'm not sure if clients RECIEVE streams from multiple people. I think they have a central server which determines who recieves packets from whom. Or... maybe part of that logic is in the client... not really sure. If you are curious on how an implementation of this might work, check out the TMesh project on which Zattoo is based.

By: Dave W

Dave W — Sun, 28 May 2006 17:46:42 +0000

Hmmm… this is very cool. I’ve long wondered how a peer-to-peer streaming protocol could possibly work… how reliable is it? Are you connected to multiple peers (I’d assume so…), and how is it determined which packets come from where? And… yeah, lots more questions I probably won’t get answered anytime soon.

Still, this sounds huge for this project… way to go.