Google Rolling Out Live Streaming For YouTube 60
An anonymous reader writes "YouTube has already live-streamed a number of popular concerts, sporting events, and interviews, but most were one-time deals. Now Google wants to crank it up a notch, and has announced YouTube Live. YouTube Live integrates live streaming capabilities and discovery tools directly into the YouTube platform. From the announcement: 'Today, we'll also start gradually rolling out our live streaming beta platform, which will allow certain YouTube partners with accounts in good standing to stream live content on YouTube. The goal is to provide thousands of partners with the capability to live stream from their channels in the months ahead. In order to ensure a great live stream viewing experience, we'll roll this offering out incrementally over time.'"
good bye ustream (Score:1)
n/t
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ironically, I'm seeing less ads on youtube right now than ustream.
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The world needs inept sites which still uses people to remove copyright violations.
They missed the obvious launch celebration (Score:4, Funny)
A live Rick Astley performance.
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Even better: when you try to view the live Rick Astley stream, you get rickrolled with the original video version.
Gabe's GIFT (Score:2)
I happened to catch one of the live streams about 1hr ago, where a guy from the hak5 podcast was setting up for a show and answering questions.
He quickly grew frustrated and stopped answering questions, concluding "well, the live comments have turned into YouTube comments, so I'm going to focus on setting up". Once again proving Gabe's GIFT [penny-arcade.com].
Is there any advantage (Score:1)
Live streams and content control (Score:2)
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That's why they said partners in good standing. It's not your random dweeb posting emo videos of himself, partner channels have thousands of viewers already and no legitimate reports against them.
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>> It's not your random dweeb posting emo videos of himself
No, but that's the obvious application of the technology.
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I know youtube doesn't allow adult content but what's to stop random people from streaming porn or something with one those apps that emulates webcams and streams a video. Are they relying on their report button? How fast will that work I wonder.
Other streaming sites have this problem with copyrighted sports broadcasts. You can find them all over the internet. Usually they stay up for the full match or even a long part of it before being shutdown - week after week, month after month. If those who want to find them are the only ones aware, they will continue to prosper.
Perhaps Google could create a little program where users could sign up as Freelance Police and report them for money. Get 25 cents each or so and you'll find people willing to spe
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Grand scheme!! If they do that, I'll write a bot that will auto-create accounts to stream porn. I'll be the first to report each and every one!
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It's a dicey but promising business model. I don't think a freelance police force is going to work. Hell, Google's email abuse workforce can't even stop 419 spammers after a week.
The standards would have to be pretty clear, and will have the same problems everyone does with defining them very specifically. Enforcement then means that they lose some of their legal distancing, and different culture, hate laws, pornography standards, licensing agreements, DMCA theories, and other potentially expensive argument
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Google could create a little program where users could sign up as Freelance Police and report them for money.
Only if I get a badge, a gun, and a DeSoto. (I'll find my own homicidal little buddy.)
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I know youtube doesn't allow adult content but what's to stop random people from streaming porn or something with one those apps that emulates webcams and streams a video. Are they relying on their report button? How fast will that work I wonder.
They'll probably handle it the same way that chatroulette (AKA "how many clicks to dick?") does.
Brave new world!
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The rest of us want to know why you're still on 56k dialup.
Thanks in advance, -The Internet People
False alarm, video files are big.
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The rest of us want to know why you're still on 56k dialup.
Because moving to an area where cable or DSL is offered can be cost prohibitive.
Finally IPTV in the US? (Score:3)
YouTube is large enough to have the big content producers jump aboard this streaming platform. I like that you can stream YouTube over a simple MPEG4 stream so maybe finally we'll have a real IPTV provider in the US that can replace my overpriced cable TV.
how about ipv6 multicast? (Score:4, Interesting)
Seriously.. I can't imagine what happens to bandwith when multiple people at the same ISP or office all stream the same live video at the same time.. (I think IPV6 multicast could be one of the truly bright stars pushing IPv6 adoption..)
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Content multicasting (as opposed to the v6 network information multicasting) is possible in IPv4, and it works identically to how content multicasting would work in v6. If content multicasting isn't used in v4, what makes you think people will use it in v6?
Re:how about ipv6 multicast? (Score:4, Interesting)
The multicast address space in IPv4 is woefully small just a few /8's (each provider generally only gets an allocation of a /24 or /23). Multicast on v4 is just not feasible at internet scales.
IPv6 is much more promising however, given the vast improvement in address space. The only problem with multicast in general, is that content providers dont like the lack of control (anyone can join a multicast stream WITHOUT the provider knowing about it). Providers want total control over every client (somewhat of a common theme with modern media delivery mechanisms).
Perhaps the solution, is some kind of crypto on the streams that clients must negotiate the key for via unicast before getting the stream. But then its scarily close to drm.
Either way, I'm quite excited about the possibility of v6 multicast taking off once v6 is the norm (probably not long after duke nukem forever is released).
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Perhaps the solution, is some kind of crypto on the streams that clients must negotiate the key for via unicast before getting the stream. But then its scarily close to drm.
The best part of this encryption scheme is that the encryption key is the same for everyone since well... the encrypted data is sent over multicast and is the same for everyone. So the moment a pirate sets sail on the high seas and copy pastes the stream info and encryption key to his buddies there will be tons of people watching the stream for free. If the key changes every X minutes you could setup a program that simply distributes the keys (perhaps using something like UDP multicast, since we have all th
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Not true, even with IPv4 you can use all multicast ip space over for every single source ip on the internet, that was a change with IGMP v3, source specific multicast. I think the main problem has been that you have to get all backbone providers to route multicast everywhere, even to the home, and that just has never been done that I know of, and might not even with IPv6. Today cable companies use multicast to get video eveywhere on the own network, and it really would be a big waste of bandwidth for live r
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Seriously.. I can't imagine what happens to bandwith when multiple people at the same ISP or office all stream the same live video at the same time.. (I think IPV6 multicast could be one of the truly bright stars pushing IPv6 adoption..)
Seriously? You can't imagine people using webcams on chat networks or even teleconferencing, using programs such as skype?
I wonder... (Score:1)
Available on Applie mobile products? (Score:1)
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No Android pod touch in Best Buy (Score:2)
Go a store and look at the shelves. Brave New World!
I've been to Best Buy. I saw a bunch of alternatives to iPod nano (lesser-known MP3 players) and a bunch of alternatives to iPhone (Android and BlackBerry smartphones), and even a few tablets competing with iPad. But Best Buy stores don't appear to carry anything like the iPod touch, that is, no PMP/PDA in that size range that can play music and video and download and run applications. Pocket PC is discontinued, and Android-powered PDAs like Archos 43 and Samsung Galaxy Player just don't end up on shelves n
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Apple rejected a lot of video streaming apps?
My iPhone has:
Netflix
UStream
TV.com
Qik
tosh.0
Discovery channel
Hulu plus
[adult swim]
Facebook video
Al-Jazeera English
The App Store also has:
Slingbox
MLB live
Is there a video streaming app that Apple has rejected?
Interesting that it's Flash (Score:2)
It would seem to me - if they really wanted to push VP8 into the mainstream - they could've figured out a way to do this using that protocol rather than falling back to Flash.
I do understand, politically, why they didn't go with h.264. But choosing Flash at this point just seems backwards.
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Timing and throttling are a bitch to deal with in HTML5 video. RTMP (still) is better at that.
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There is no viable alternative to Flash right now for streaming live video, especially with the same market penetration.
Yes there is, it's called RTSP/RTP and it's well-supported by VLC and QuickTime (and by extension their browser plug-ins). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rtsp [wikipedia.org]
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Wow thanks for that.
It included a large list of sites that apparently I have been uploading content to without my knowledge, I pay per GB so this is very ridiculous.
End users should female dog to their ISPs (Score:2)
Will this end up being balanced out or will this one day bang heads so hard that Google and these services finally will take on ISPs to get the usage Caps removed?
Perhaps Google is counting on end users to run up against their caps and threaten to switch to the other ISP.
Market Expansion / Industry Threat (Score:2)
I don't know why it hasn't been mentioned, but this will allow Google to threaten the broadcast news industry.
Why watch news on TV at *all* if you're busy watching livecast after livecast on YouTube?
IPL 4 (Score:1)