GoalBit Media Player 0.5

GoalBit Media Player 0.5 is designed to be a free peer to peer distribution system which is capable of distributing high-bandwidth live-content to all network peers preserving its quality.

This project follows a bittorrent-like approach where the stream is decomposed into several flows sent by different peers to each client. In order to meassure the peers perceived quality, it is used the recently proposed PSQA (Pseudo-Subjective Quality Assessment) technology.

Major Features:

1. GoalBit is a software project, which produces free software for video streaming, released under the GNU General Public License.
2. GoalBit runs on GNU/Linux, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows.
3. BitTorrent streaming (based on the BitTorrent protocol).
4. Supported input media: File, Video acquisition (DV, webcam), HTTP/MMS/FTP, UDP/RTP Unicast/Multicast, TCP/RTP Unicast, DVD, VCD, SVCD, etc.
5. Various audio and video formats supported (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV, mp3, ogg, wma).
6. Full video delivery network monitoring suite included (the perceived quality at the client side is meassured in real time and automatically)

Enhancements:

• Internationalization
• • Goalbit is now translated to English and Spanish.
• Broadcasting Annotations
• • Now you can add your own logo, banner and/or text inside your goalbit streaming.
• Real-time Quality Measurement
• • Goalbit is now monitoring the quality perceived by each user using the PSQA (Pseudo-Subjective Quality Assessment)  methodology.
• Very soon (planned for the end of August 2009): Trackerless and Output adaptation features!
• • Keep in touch with your open source streaming platform!