FreeCast

FreeCast

Infobox Software
name = FreeCast
author = Alban Peignier
developer = Alban Peignier, Stéphane Lacoin and Timothée Peignier
released = 14 September, 2004
latest release version = 29 June, 2006
operating system = Cross-platform
genre = Peercasting
license = GNU General Public License
website = http://www.freecast.org/

FreeCast is a free software application which allows peer-to-peer streaming, sometimes called peercasting. It makes possible an audio (Ogg Vorbis) or video (Ogg Theora) stream broadcast to a large number of listeners from a simple DSL connection.

The FreeCast client used by listeners does not require any configuration to work. FreeCast nodes support NAT traversal.

FreeCast is made up of Java applications released under the GPL and is available for most operating systems.

ee also

*Icecast
*PeerCast
*Peercasting

External links

* [http://www.freecast.org FreeCast website]


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