Re: [Gnash-dev] Proposal: Bittorrent support for Gnash

[Dossy Shiobara]

On 2008.03.17, Rene Bartsch <address@hidden> wrote:
> That lead me to the idea of integrating Bittorrent (with support of
> Distributed Hash Tables) into Adobe Flash.

BitTorrent isn't suitable for realtime streaming of media.  You cannot
guarantee at the beginning that every block will be available by the
time you're ready to consume it.  This will result in a really poor user
experience.

-- Dossy

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