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What are the major, general-purpose livestreaming options now? Ustream? Google Hangouts? What else?

by troymc 12y ago

zanny 12y ago
Self hosted RTP stream?
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pliu 12y ago
I've never tried it myself, but I believe you can livestream on youtube. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2474026?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2474026?hl=en
- sysop073 12y ago
  When I tried it it worked pretty well, except the stream lagged really far behind. It was usually a couple minutes behind live for me
  - runevault 12y ago
    Twitch can be 30 seconds to a minute behind so these days having extensive difference between the broadcaster and viewers seems common, sadly.
gwillen 12y ago
At one time I had good luck with a streaming app called Bambuser. I switched from Ustream because the latter had issues (at the time) dealing with poor connectivity.
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arsey 12y ago
YouNow and Tinychat are the ones left that I know about. BlogTV was big but closed down and was acquired by YouNow. I'm working on a general-purpose streaming site, but with a twist in how broadcasting works. Not quite enough for a 'Show HN' yet however.
- jallmann 12y ago
  Would be interested in hearing more about your project. Couldn't find any contact info for you, my email is in my profile. I do a lot of streaming work, and enjoy talking shop.
jnevelson 12y ago
Spreecast (www.spreecast.com)
paul7986 12y ago
What other sites offer similar TV streams like JTV did? I have used JTV for marathon watching of so many popular TV shows for the past five years. I may not really be watching, but when working on your latest start-up or idea it was always good to be watching marathons of my favorite show in the background.
- paul7986 12y ago
  Why is this being downvoted? This is how I used JTV for the past five years and I'm sure tons of others here did too.
  - lbotos 12y ago
    People were saying this is why JTV was shut down, rampant copyright infringement.
  - paul7986 12y ago
    Probably, but it was an amazing site due to all the marathon copyrighted TV shows you can just go and tune into. Where am I supposed to get a similar service now? I'll never pay for cable TV again!
    - squeaky-clean 12y ago
      You should still pay for the content you consume. This is why these streaming sites get shut down so quickly. Watching a stream is no different than torrenting it or other means of infringing. You're watching a TV show without the rights holders getting any money. If you don't want the rights holders to get any of your money (whether it's because you cannot afford to pay, or do not want to pay), you simply should not watch the show, not find a free way around the system.
      - paul7986 12y ago
        Well where can I watch and pay for a JTV like service on the INternet. Answer you can not and copyright does not want to disrupt their horrible cable TV business model. JTV was awesome and will be sorely missed! Aereo too and hey I paid for that.
jacquesm 12y ago
Camarades.com is back in business and will remain alive as long as I can support it. It's older than justin.tv by a long shot and I don't have any intention of shutting it down. Acquisitions, it is safe to say, are not in the cards.
frankenburger 12y ago
http://kageshi.com http://kageshi.com
nacs 12y ago
There's also http://livestream.com http://livestream.com Twitch.tv (justin.tv's parent company) is one even though its gaming focused. People stream non-gaming stuff (including dev-streams) quite often.
- Joona 12y ago
  Actually, on Twitch you can only stream gaming related content. It does include programming, but only if you are programming a game (or related tool or such).
erikj 12y ago
You can do livestreaming on YouTube.

What are the major, general-purpose livestreaming options now? Ustream? Google Hangouts? What else?

by troymc 12y ago

What are the major, general-purpose livestreaming options now? Ustream? Google Hangouts? What else?

zanny 12y ago

Self hosted RTP stream?

deleted 12y ago

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pliu 12y ago

I've never tried it myself, but I believe you can livestream on youtube. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2474026?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2474026?hl=en

sysop073 12y ago
When I tried it it worked pretty well, except the stream lagged really far behind. It was usually a couple minutes behind live for me
- runevault 12y ago
  Twitch can be 30 seconds to a minute behind so these days having extensive difference between the broadcaster and viewers seems common, sadly.

gwillen 12y ago

At one time I had good luck with a streaming app called Bambuser. I switched from Ustream because the latter had issues (at the time) dealing with poor connectivity.

deleted 12y ago

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arsey 12y ago

YouNow and Tinychat are the ones left that I know about. BlogTV was big but closed down and was acquired by YouNow. I'm working on a general-purpose streaming site, but with a twist in how broadcasting works. Not quite enough for a 'Show HN' yet however.

jallmann 12y ago
Would be interested in hearing more about your project. Couldn't find any contact info for you, my email is in my profile. I do a lot of streaming work, and enjoy talking shop.

jnevelson 12y ago

Spreecast (www.spreecast.com)

paul7986 12y ago

What other sites offer similar TV streams like JTV did? I have used JTV for marathon watching of so many popular TV shows for the past five years. I may not really be watching, but when working on your latest start-up or idea it was always good to be watching marathons of my favorite show in the background.

paul7986 12y ago
Why is this being downvoted? This is how I used JTV for the past five years and I'm sure tons of others here did too.
- lbotos 12y ago
  People were saying this is why JTV was shut down, rampant copyright infringement.
- paul7986 12y ago
  Probably, but it was an amazing site due to all the marathon copyrighted TV shows you can just go and tune into. Where am I supposed to get a similar service now? I'll never pay for cable TV again!
  - squeaky-clean 12y ago
    You should still pay for the content you consume. This is why these streaming sites get shut down so quickly. Watching a stream is no different than torrenting it or other means of infringing. You're watching a TV show without the rights holders getting any money. If you don't want the rights holders to get any of your money (whether it's because you cannot afford to pay, or do not want to pay), you simply should not watch the show, not find a free way around the system.
    - paul7986 12y ago
      Well where can I watch and pay for a JTV like service on the INternet. Answer you can not and copyright does not want to disrupt their horrible cable TV business model. JTV was awesome and will be sorely missed! Aereo too and hey I paid for that.

jacquesm 12y ago

Camarades.com is back in business and will remain alive as long as I can support it. It's older than justin.tv by a long shot and I don't have any intention of shutting it down. Acquisitions, it is safe to say, are not in the cards.

frankenburger 12y ago

http://kageshi.com http://kageshi.com

nacs 12y ago

There's also http://livestream.com http://livestream.com Twitch.tv (justin.tv's parent company) is one even though its gaming focused. People stream non-gaming stuff (including dev-streams) quite often.

Joona 12y ago
Actually, on Twitch you can only stream gaming related content. It does include programming, but only if you are programming a game (or related tool or such).

erikj 12y ago

You can do livestreaming on YouTube.