Comments on: Creating a new video revolution… http://buhsnarf.net/wordpress/2007/11/06/creating-a-new-video-revolution/ Another fool, another broken heart. Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:53:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Mr B http://buhsnarf.net/wordpress/2007/11/06/creating-a-new-video-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-14059 Mr B Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:52:17 +0000 http://buhsnarf.net/wordpress/2007/11/06/creating-a-new-video-revolution/#comment-14059 Yeh, I'm not 100% sure on whether Joost content comes from Joost servers to their P2P network or whether content producers host the content and serve to users? As for Miro, I agree, it's BitTorrent implementation is appalling, but is OS so could be worked on. But I've found that for someone that doesn't have the world's biggest or most reliable connection (2Mbps) and behind a hardware firewall it seems to work better than Joost which I found couldn't hold a connection and would end up filling my routers NAT table with lots of connections. Of course, the Miro article doesn't take into account that I'd say nearly 90% of the content listed is straight HTTP traffic which isn't very good for broadcasters either! The more I think about it I just find this a move (the "Why is Miro better" campaign) one that will turn round and bite them in the end because it just seems so wrong. Yeh, I’m not 100% sure on whether Joost content comes from Joost servers to their P2P network or whether content producers host the content and serve to users?

As for Miro, I agree, it’s BitTorrent implementation is appalling, but is OS so could be worked on. But I’ve found that for someone that doesn’t have the world’s biggest or most reliable connection (2Mbps) and behind a hardware firewall it seems to work better than Joost which I found couldn’t hold a connection and would end up filling my routers NAT table with lots of connections.

Of course, the Miro article doesn’t take into account that I’d say nearly 90% of the content listed is straight HTTP traffic which isn’t very good for broadcasters either!

The more I think about it I just find this a move (the “Why is Miro better” campaign) one that will turn round and bite them in the end because it just seems so wrong.

]]> By: Jordan http://buhsnarf.net/wordpress/2007/11/06/creating-a-new-video-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-14057 Jordan Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:08:18 +0000 http://buhsnarf.net/wordpress/2007/11/06/creating-a-new-video-revolution/#comment-14057 While I agree that Miro definitely has a number of advantages, the communication backend ain't one of them. Yes, Miro uses bittorrent, and while Joost is proprietary, it's basically the same thing as skype in terms of network communication engine. It's sounds like a pretty cool protocol in terms of bandwidth distribution, and just as likely to decrease broadcaster's bandwidth costs. While I agree that Miro definitely has a number of advantages, the communication backend ain’t one of them. Yes, Miro uses bittorrent, and while Joost is proprietary, it’s basically the same thing as skype in terms of network communication engine. It’s sounds like a pretty cool protocol in terms of bandwidth distribution, and just as likely to decrease broadcaster’s bandwidth costs.

]]>