Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. IceShare is an unfinished peercasting system for Ogg multimedia. It has been in the planning stages since early 2004 but holdups in the development of other Xiph.org Foundation technologies have prevented much visible progress. Early versions of Icecast since 1999 had support for s ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. IceShare is an unfinished peercasting system for Ogg multimedia. It has been in the planning stages since early 2004 but holdups in the development of other Xiph.org Foundation technologies have prevented much visible progress. Early versions of Icecast since 1999 had support for stream relaying, which could be used to manually construct a peer-to-peer broadcast overlay.Each user who receives an IceShare stream will also upload the stream as well to help continue the network. This allows the broadcaster to only broadcast a stream once or twice, and allow the users to distribute it among themselves. This requires very little bandwidth from the broadcaster. IceShare intends to use BitTorrent''s swarming design to make this work but expects a much smarter tracker to orchestrate the flow of data through the network.