PeerStreamer

What is it?
PeerStreamer is an open source P2P Media Streaming framework written in C, developed as part of the NAPA-WINE European research project. It includes a streaming engine for the efficient distribution of media streams, a source application for the creation of channels and a player applications to visualize the streams. To the best of our knowledge, PeerStreamer is unique among other similar applications for at least three reasons:

• open source development
• fast and efficient code
• network awareness and friendliness

Main features:

• digests almost any media format
• configurable chunking engine
• configurable topology module
• streaming engine with several streaming protocols (push/pull/negotiation based)
• configurable chunk/peer scheduler
• ALTO (Application-Layer Traffic Optimization) support

PeerStreamer has several incarnations for various target audiences:

• Users: download binaries or source code from our dedicated download page
• Developers: source code is available from git repositories. Consult the development page for more details
• Researchers: check out streamers implementing various state-of-the-art streaming algorithms from literature at our research page. Related publication are also available here

OSPS Project

A research project, Open Source P2P Streaming, has been conducted in order to adapt PeerStreamer to best suite even in Wireless Community Network environment.

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Various features of PeerStreamer have been presented with live demos at the following venues: