It doesn't provide guarantees enough to give a good experience.
Basically it requires enough people with enough bandwidth to stream data to you. Not only that but those peers need to ideally be near you so that they can react quick enough to overcome packet loss.
So you have a choice as a provider, maintain a fast autoscale peer list(expensive), or force long pre-caching to make up for uncertain peer reliability(bad experience and or expensive).
P2P is not a good platform for providing realtime high bandwidth services, unless there is strong incentive to keep your peer running for as long as possible. with video, you're going to close it as soon as you've finished watching. for an hour long movie, thats fine, for a 30 second clip, its terrible.
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It doesn't provide guarantees enough to give a good experience.
Basically it requires enough people with enough bandwidth to stream data to you. Not only that but those peers need to ideally be near you so that they can react quick enough to overcome packet loss.
So you have a choice as a provider, maintain a fast autoscale peer list(expensive), or force long pre-caching to make up for uncertain peer reliability(bad experience and or expensive).
P2P is not a good platform for providing realtime high bandwidth services, unless there is strong incentive to keep your peer running for as long as possible. with video, you're going to close it as soon as you've finished watching. for an hour long movie, thats fine, for a 30 second clip, its terrible.