Peer-to-Peer Internet Television

Lanaki writes "A non-profit based in Austin, TX is merging the free software and Copyleft communities through a new internet TV station: ACTLab TV. They are streaming Creative Commons, Copyleft, public domain content, and original videos using Alluvium software and their own media player. It's all open source, encouraging others to make their own audio and video streams. Their website was released this week and the player and demo stream will go public next week."

Interesting related link

[mister_llah]

I read through this a bit and got to think that I was surprised that ABC, CBS, and NBC haven't already tried to do this (since they get their revenue from advertising, this would expand their advertising base)... so I decided to look to see if they had even planned to do it. I didn't find anything on plans for them to offer web broadcasts, however I did find this...

http://mediahopper.com/portal.htm [mediahopper.com]
An information hub for international live and pre-recorded web broadcasts.... apparantely this is not such a new concept (and the few I checked out seemed to only require the Windows Media Player, though I'm sure some use Real Player)

Cheers!

Re:build off of what we already have, durnit

[ludwigvan968]

Hi, I am a member of the ACTLab TV team and I wanted to address some things in your post. We are, in fact, using FFMpeg for encoding along with a number of other Open Source and low-cost software packages. We are also currently working on creating guides on how to capture, transcode and publish content for our stream, as well as documentation on how to create original content and manage your own station.

Use the Internet Archive instead

[Animats]

Unlike these new guys, who are all player, no content, visit the Internet Archive Moving Images collection [archive.org]. They have actual content. 5344 open source movies and counting, plus a big collection of historical films.

And you don't need some wierd player, either. The Internet Archive offers video in about five different formats, including editable quality versions for use in other works.

peercast?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hasn`t peercast [peercast.org] being doing this for about 3 years so far?

theres alot more interesting content on their Yellow pages [peercast.org] too. 200+ channels etc.