PeerCast is a simple, free way to listen to radio and watch video on the Internet. It uses P2P technology to let anyone become a broadcaster without the costs of traditional streaming. This means you get to hear and watch stations not normally found on commercially funded sites.
Features:
- Support for MP3, OGG Theora and Vorbis, WMA, WMV and NSV.
- HTML (Linux/Windows) and Windows task-bar icon interface
- Remote configuration via any web browser
- Extremely low memory footprint and CPU load
- One click streaming - click on any peercast:// URL to start listening
- Direct streaming - PeerCast can act as a standard streaming server such as Shoutcast/Icecast to
- provide both direct and P2P streaming.
- Multiple broadcasting - use mount points to broadcast multiple channels from the same server
- Anonymous broadcasting - clients do not tell each other if they are the source or just listening
- Remote broadcasting - broadcast to a client located on another machine anywhere on the Internet
- Icecast/Icecast2/SHOUTcast/WindowMedia streaming support including relaying from external sources.
- Support for all popular media players, WinAmp, XMMS etc..
- Fully decentralized - any PeerCast client can be used to setup a private relay or provide connection bases to the main network
- Security settings to control access rights for Connections/Broadcasting/Admin etc..
- IP address filtering and banning
- Custom settings to limit bandwidth and the number of connections in/out
- Does not require incoming ports to be configured
- Full support for ICY-Metadata (MP3) and OGG Vorbis comment headers for title/artist/song display
- One-click play for any channel straight from the Taskbar icon
- Favorite channels list allowing almost instant reconnection to your channels
- Freeware, not ad/spy ware
- Open source
- Now includes OggCap - Video broadcasting tool.
