can we combine the P2P technology with VLC?

[tiantao]

well, VLC is a excellent player with plenty good featrues, it supports many streaming format. But if stream video to a large number of client, the server will be overbundenned. The P2P technology can make every peer to be both a server and a client, that's just the vlc can do, right? Can we combine the P2P technology with VLC, so that we can get a more powerful internet media player?

[Sigmund]

It should certainly be possible, but it isn't implemented in vlc yet. I'd recommend looking at the peercast protocol if you look to implement such features.

[M.Shimoda]

Yes, it's possible!
BTW, I'm doing this... I'm developing an MPEG player that receives a stream from VLC and can share the content in its buffer to other clients. My system works like CoopNet combining client-server and P2P.

[tiantao]

if the vlc involves the P2P techenology, it seems cool. Is there any open source P2P applications, so that it can be easy to combine.