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About

cacaoweb is a free and opensource software handling the broadcasting of multimedia content such radio or live sport events. cacaoweb supports a wide range of operations regarding content broadcasting and can livestream content based on files or internet streams captures.

cacaoweb implements a number of P2P features such as its live broadcast p2p engine, a distributed hash table (DHT) and NAT traversal techniques.

End user features

• video livestreaming
• video and file sharing
• unlimited and advertising-free access to the Megavideo platform : no 72min limit

• cacaoweb provides also an add-on for the Firefox browser. This add-on removes automatically time limits and advertising from Megavideo content encountered while browsing the web.

We provide firefox, safari and chrome addons here to automatically remove the megavideo time limit from within your web browser.

You can also ask questions about cacaoweb on the forum.

cacaoweb for video hosting services

If you operate a video/file hosting service or would like to start one, cacaoweb can greatly help, by saving most or all of your bandwidth costs and increasing quality of service.

Learn more about what it can do for you here.

cacaoweb for videos or files publishers

Videos publishers, files publishers, files sharers, can all benefit from cacaoweb technology. If you're a publisher, cacaoweb let you make your content available to the world while saving on bandwidth costs. As cacaoweb is based on a traditional P2P architecture, it takes the bandwidth load off your servers, using your viewers bandwidth instead to distributed your content.
cacaoweb has two distinctive features that can be of interest for your publishing needs :

• videos/files are downloaded in an ordered fashion : your video gets played (almost) instantly in your viewers players, and is streamed as it is downloaded. There is no need to wait until the file is fully downloaded, as is usually the case with traditional P2P platforms.
• videos/files are downloaded much quicker. Since cacaoweb can make its way through firewalls, it fully leverage the P2P network capabilities and achieves much higher transfer speeds than other platforms.

To see how to publish your content in details, see here.

cacaoweb for webmasters

Webmaster can use cacaoweb power and versatility to leverage their website content and get more users. If your website provides video oriented content, you may think about integrating cacaoweb through its API. For example, if you're providing links to videos from popular platform Megavideo, you can add a cacaoweb snippet to provide your end-user with free unlimited megavideo access.

We have developed a simple API for webmaster to harness the full power of cacaoweb. See the webmaster page.