Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?

1. PeerTube

   1 429 14,758 9.9 TypeScript

   ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser

   

   What do you mean by never caught on? It's 'live' at https://joinpeertube.org/ where you can either go to https://joinpeertube.org/browse-content and put something into that search form, or limit that search to specific 'instances' under https://joinpeertube.org/instances

   Or to get back to your original question: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/create-upload-video

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. webtorrent

   2 86 31,010 7.2 JavaScript

   ⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web

   

4. vlc-bittorrent

   3 2 486 5.1 C++

   A bittorrent plugin for VLC.

   

   Bittorrent already works fine for streaming:

   https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/

5. iroh

   4 21 8,704 9.7 Rust

   IP addresses break, dial keys instead. Modular networking stack in Rust.

   

6. iroh-experiments

   5 1 42 7.5 Rust

   a place for things that aren't in iroh, but are useful nonetheless

   

7. live-torrent

   6 1 176 - JavaScript

   Simple proof-of-concept for a live streaming solution based on webtorrent

   

   Only issue is that the overhead to establish WebRTC connection is heavy, so it's not exactly lightweight...

   0: https://github.com/pldubouilh/live-torrent

8. torrent

   7 24 6,039 9.3 Go

   Full-featured BitTorrent client package and utilities

   

   BitTorrent v2 has the incremental hashes via merkle trees. They're surprisingly good. I implemented them here https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent/issues/175#issuecomment...

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