I am a member of the ACTLab team. I would be happy to explain why Winamp is different. It has a pretty cool streaming Media Library with the simpsons & other cartoons. As you may have noticed though.....
It's not actually bandwith-efficient. They are locked to a certain # of users, per bandwith. So they are often full because the winamp video streams are limited to a small # of users. Our p2p technology allows for us to scale up with an impressive amount of users.
Also, It's not 24 hour streaming. Or if it is... it's a certain # of episodes on loop. We will be providing a lot of fresh content new to the internet as well as classics that can be found on other internet archive sites for 24 hours, 7 days per week. The most exciting part of our new station is that we really will be happy to accept any work submitted to us on the web with a URL for download. We will of course filter out the crap, but there will not be censorship issues.
We will have cartoons, comedy, drama, documentaries action, science fiction, experimental, music videos, and performances- which makes up some of our most exciting footage from ACTLab community members.. but the vast majority of our material cannot be categorized into a single genre.
Do you know what will be awesome... is when anyone with a half-decent upload speed (~1 mbit) can start up their own high-quality video stream, or tv station, so that independent media can be distributed through p2p networks like bit torrent - but just by clicking tune in on your favorite channel!
This sort of system will significantly reduce the amount of bandwith that a streaming host server has to push through the first few pipes. Then, users utilize each other's bandwith. "Leechers" will be an antiquated term when you can stream anything you want any time!!
Get ready.... ACTLab TV. We have some big plans for internet television with student work through Allvium. Our next big plan is laying it out for everyone, with details so that everyone else can do it too!!
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I am a member of the ACTLab team. I would be happy to explain why Winamp is different. It has a pretty cool streaming Media Library with the simpsons & other cartoons. As you may have noticed though..... It's not actually bandwith-efficient. They are locked to a certain # of users, per bandwith. So they are often full because the winamp video streams are limited to a small # of users. Our p2p technology allows for us to scale up with an impressive amount of users. Also, It's not 24 hour streaming. Or if it is... it's a certain # of episodes on loop. We will be providing a lot of fresh content new to the internet as well as classics that can be found on other internet archive sites for 24 hours, 7 days per week. The most exciting part of our new station is that we really will be happy to accept any work submitted to us on the web with a URL for download. We will of course filter out the crap, but there will not be censorship issues. We will have cartoons, comedy, drama, documentaries action, science fiction, experimental, music videos, and performances- which makes up some of our most exciting footage from ACTLab community members.. but the vast majority of our material cannot be categorized into a single genre.
Do you know what will be awesome... is when anyone with a half-decent upload speed (~1 mbit) can start up their own high-quality video stream, or tv station, so that independent media can be distributed through p2p networks like bit torrent - but just by clicking tune in on your favorite channel! This sort of system will significantly reduce the amount of bandwith that a streaming host server has to push through the first few pipes. Then, users utilize each other's bandwith. "Leechers" will be an antiquated term when you can stream anything you want any time!! Get ready.... ACTLab TV. We have some big plans for internet television with student work through Allvium. Our next big plan is laying it out for everyone, with details so that everyone else can do it too!! I am the Enchilada Man.
people are stupid. they are probably republicans!!