QQlive is a live streaming video freeware

Freeware

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...

 created by Tencent, which takes advantages of advanced P2P streaming media technology to ensure program keep fluency with many people viewing at the same time. It attracts 3,000,000 visitors per day.

Introduction

QQLive provides two modes to view, community mode and player mode. Community mode integrates chatroom and forum, which can offer users a platform to discuss the program you viewing and make more friend there. Player mode is simpler to offer video

Video

Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...

 watching function. Users can choose different view mode due to personal favor.

Requirements

• CPU frequency of operation: PIII 800M
• Internal memory: 128M
• Windows 98
  Windows 98
  Windows 98 is a graphical operating system by Microsoft. It is the second major release in the Windows 9x line of operating systems. It was released to manufacturing on 15 May 1998 and to retail on 25 June 1998. Windows 98 is the successor to Windows 95. Like its predecessor, it is a hybrid...
  
   or later (Win2k/XP/Vista/Win7)is required.
• Support for Windows Media Player
  Media Player
  Media Player is a media player originally included in Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions and a slightly updated version was included with Windows 3.1x. Media Player received a facelift with Video for Windows, with an OLE2 version provided with the runtime software...
  
   9 or later.
• Be compatible with DirectX
  DirectX
  Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with Direct, such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay,...
  
   8.0 or above. 800*600 and 1024*768 resolution
  Display resolution
  The display resolution of a digital television or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by all different factors in cathode ray tube , flat panel or projection...
  
   is required.

Lighten QQlive

After installation of QQlive, the software icon will be lightened if users log for five days constantly. But if user did not log in for fifteen days, the icon would extinguish.

See also

• Soso.com
  Soso.com
  Soso.com is a Chinese search engine owned by Tencent Holdings Limited, which is well known for its other creation QQ. , Soso.com is ranked as the 54th most visited website in the world and 8th most visited website in People's Republic of China, according to Alexa Internet.On an average, Soso.com...
  
  
• Tencent QQ
  Tencent QQ
  Tencent QQ, generally referred to as QQ, is the most popular free instant messaging computer program in mainland China. As of July 11, 2011, the active QQ users accounts for QQ IM totaled 812.3 million, possibly making it the world's second largest online community. The number of simultaneous...
  
  
• QQ Games
  QQ Games
  QQ Games is a casual games client, offering only multi-player online games. Games are available through the QQ Games client and are entirely free to play. Partnering with AOL Instant Messenger through the AIM Plugin Gallery, AIM version 6.5 and up comes bundled with QQ Games...
  
  
• QQdownload
  QQdownload
  QQdownload is a download manager and bittorrent client developed by Tencent Holdings Ltd. Its main competitor is Xunlei, which is more popular in China.-External links:...
  
  
• Qzone
  Qzone
  Qzone is a social networking website, which was created by Tencent in 2005. It permits users to write blogs, keep diaries, send photos, and listen to music. Users can set their Qzone background and select accessories based on their preferences so that every Qzone is customized to the individual...
  
  
• PPLive
  PPLive
  PPTV, developed by PPLive, is a leading online TV service offering both live streaming and video-on-demand of TV programs/shows, movies, drama, sports, news and entertainment video contents. The service is accessible either from its website or from client software installation...
  
  
• PPStream
  PPStream
  PPS.tv is a Chinese peer-to-peer streaming video network software. Since the target users are on the Chinese mainland, there is no official English version, and the vast majority of channels are from East Asia, mostly Mainland China, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore...
  
  
• CoolStreaming
  CoolStreaming
  CoolStreaming is a P2PTV technology that enables users to share television content with each other over the Internet. The technology behind CoolStreaming is similar to that of BitTorrent. The viewers upload content at the same time the programs are downloaded and viewed...
  
  
• Joost
  Joost
  Joost is an Internet TV service, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis . During 2007-8 Joost used peer-to-peer TV technology to distribute content to their Mozilla-based desktop player; in late 2008 this was migrated to use a Flash-based Web player instead.Joost began development in 2006...
  
  
• TVUnetworks
  TVUnetworks
  TVU Networks Corporation is a company that manufactures live mobile television broadcasting equipment and offers an Internet television broadcasting platform that uses P2PTV technology. Founded in 2005, the company is based in Mountain View, California.....
  
  
• Icecast
  Icecast
  Icecast is a streaming media project released as free software maintained by the Xiph.org Foundation. It also refers specifically to the server program which is part of the project. Icecast was created in December 1998/January 1999 by Jack Moffitt and Barath Raghavan to provide an open source...
  
  
• Peercasting
  Peercasting
  Peercasting is a method of multicasting streams, usually audio and/or video, to the Internet via peer-to-peer technology. It can be used for commercial, independent, and amateur multicasts. Unlike traditional IP Multicast, peercasting can facilitate on-demand content delivery.-Operation:It usually...
  
  
• PeerCast
  PeerCast
  PeerCast is an open source streaming media multicast tool. PeerCast uses peer-to-peer technology to minimize the necessary upload bandwidth for the original multicaster.The website of PeerCast appears to be abandoned since December 2007...
  
  
• MediaBlog
  MediaBlog
  MediaBlog is software that distributes almost all kinds of streams on P2P network based on VLC player. The main idea of MediaBlog come from PeerCast and BitTorrent....
  
  

External links

• http://qbar.qq.com/qqlive
• http://live.qq.com
• http://live.qq.com/download.html
• http://live.qq.com/help/index.html