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.

Homepage: http://www.peercast.org/
Download: http://www.peercast.org/peercast-win32.exe
File Size: 501 KB