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author | Feross Aboukhadijeh <feross@feross.org> | 2016-07-29 08:09:00 +0300 |
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committer | Feross Aboukhadijeh <feross@feross.org> | 2016-07-29 08:09:00 +0300 |
commit | 2be09cc2fabef37ddba365fb0b014d719fbb8fff (patch) | |
tree | 08bcc52178a98b5d4c1b382e0c4631b60e602172 /docs/faq.md | |
parent | 79589dde351c8a2a305bfebc4833be02dbe6f8c3 (diff) |
Add something about live streaming in the faq (fix #826)
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diff --git a/docs/faq.md b/docs/faq.md index 3678700..00531bb 100644 --- a/docs/faq.md +++ b/docs/faq.md @@ -334,6 +334,23 @@ There are many talks online about WebTorrent. Here are a few: <script async class="speakerdeck-embed" data-id="cb08869f2ac2445c99e8b73a4ac65d2b" data-ratio="1.77777777777778" src="//speakerdeck.com/assets/embed.js"></script> +## Is it possible to do live streaming with WebTorrent? + +WebTorrent cannot do live streaming out-of-the-box, because that's beyond the scope +of a torrent client. However, you can build a live streaming solution on top of +WebTorrent and torrent technology. + +Torrents are immutable. That means that once a torrent files is created, it cannot +be changed without changing the info hash. + +A naive approach would be this: The video producer could take every 10 seconds +of live video and create a torrent from it. Viewers would follow this "feed" of +torrent files (or info hashes) and download them sequentially. Thus, viewers would +be around 10-20 seconds behind the live stream. + +This approach can definitely be improved, though! Why not give that a shot yourself +and share the code? + # Troubleshooting ## Why does browser downloading not work? I see no peers! |