Filed under: Video, Windows, P2P
Watch streaming TV and more via torrent with StreamTorrent
by Jay Hathaway May 23rd 2009 at 10:00AM
It might not be practical unless you've got a lot of people watching and seeding, but you could theoretically stream your own channel over StreamTorrent. Users would only have to search for it to connect. This could prove to be an affordable way of providing large video files when you don't have the cash to pony up for high bandwidth fees, and it can, at least in theory, stream to an unlimited number of users.
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I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
neko said 10:50AM on 5-23-2009
i've been looking for a while. is there a torrent streamer for macs?
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jmann1 said 11:38AM on 5-23-2009
This is nothing new! There are already several programs similar to this: TVU, Sopcast, PPLive, PPstream, TVAnts. People use them all over the world, especially for watching sporting events that might not be shown in certain markets.
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wrs589 said 5:51PM on 5-23-2009
or for watching sporting events on subscription channels that they dont pay for.
Muffin_man said 1:05PM on 5-23-2009
How is this thing supposed to work? I've typed in multiple shows into the search engine and got no results
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Muffin_man said 1:09PM on 5-23-2009
Oh wait, I see. I thought you could stream specific shows but i guess you can only stream channels.
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kastonie said 1:58PM on 5-24-2009
how long before this clogs up the interwebz and comcast starts charging 1 dollar a MB?
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numerwan said 9:34AM on 5-26-2009
TWC does it now lol... And comcast techincally does it after your 250gig capp