BitTorrent Live
Live streaming video. iPhone, Apple TV, MacOS. Android soon.
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BitTorrent Live - Live streaming video. iPhone, Apple TV, MacOS. Android soon.

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They announced details of BitTorrent Live . Today, it's live for Apple TV. Android, iOS, and OS X apps are coming shortly. Tangent: It's so odd to me that Apple doesn't provide a way to view Apple TV apps on the web. Creators have to awkwardly instruct users to "search Apple TV for ". Reminds me of AOL keywords back in the day. 😜
you can view tv apps on the web now. But you can't download them. Apple need a way to trigger a download from any Web page (like Google play)
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On the tangent. It is frustrating that you can't really use the web to discover Apple TV apps that you can then remotely install. It makes marketing tvOS apps a little challenging.
I'm so confused - isn't this the same thing as popcorn time? Streaming torrents? I'm assuming it won't be legal also?
Ah I see. It's livestreaming. Not regular streaming.
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Yup. Live streaming. It does not run on the original BitTorrent protocol. We have distribution deals in place with all the channels in the service.
Maker
TV networks are looking for audience and we're another distribution channel for them. But what really appeals to TV people about this is that fundamentally they like the idea of fixed cost distribution. With traditional streaming services the more people who are watching the more is costs to support them. With BitTorrent Live the costs are fixed. So if you build a really big audience you aren't hit with a huge CDN bill.
Maker
From a revenue standpoint? While we will always offer a free tier. we will also eventually include subscription based channels and ads.
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Hi everyone, I am Erik. I work on the Live team at BitTorrent. Happy to answer any questions. BitTorrent Live is the first product we’ve built on top of a new live streaming protocol invented by Bram Cohen. We built BitTorrent Live in order to solve some serious problems in the live streaming space. Specifically cost of scaling and live streaming performance. We’ll be rolling out on more platforms over the course of the summer, mostly starting with OTT boxes. We’re also going to be adding a ton of new channels and programming.
is this US-only for now ? Can't find it on the french store.
Android TV on the roadmap? Thx!
Maker
All OTT box platforms are on the roadmap
This is great. As a developer, how can I use the BT live streaming network ? Are there plans to provide people to built apps on top of your network?
I wonder if there's gonna be an sdk allowing developers to build p2p live streaming right into their apps
Maker
That is not in our short term roadmap. We're mostly focused now on supporting more platforms.
Coming soon....
Maker
It's available now on Apple TV (the new ones). Just search for BitTorrent Live in the tvOS store on your Apple TV.
🔴 LIVE just launched a Mac app! Live stream video from your Mac 🖥🚀
bitTorrent lives --- I wonder what kind of other cool stuff we can engineer based on this type of architecture.
Maker
We are US only for now. This is largely an issue of where we have programming agreements.
It'd be great if this product could integrate Akkadu Multilingual SDK so users can add multiple languages to their live stream