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YouTube TV's Now Lets You Customize Your Multiview Experiences (theverge.com) 21

Posted by BeauHD from the it's-about-time dept.
Google has confirmed to Cord Cutters News that you can now customize what games you can watch in your Multiview window. The keyword here is "games" because this feature is still limited to just sporting events at this time. From the report: One of YouTube TV's best features is the ability to offer the option to watch up to four sporting or news events at once on the same screen. The only downside has been the fact that customers have been unable to pick what games are in these windows. Instead, YouTube TV gives you a number of premade multiview options to pick from. Now, though, YouTube TV seems to be testing your ability to pick what games you want on your TV.

Yesterday, YouTube TV started to give some NBA League Pass subscribers the ability to pick which games they want to watch from a handful of games in a list. From there, YouTube TV would create a multiview channel for you to watch the games you pick. Google says this feature is coming to all devices that support multiview and you can only create these channels from preselected NBA games. Sadly, you can't pick any channel you want but only from a list of preselected games to create your own multiview channel.
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  • This feature was specifically NOT available during the NFL season.
    It was announced prior to the beginning of the season that it would not be available. It was a big deal to some people.

  • I wanted to watch The Baitin' Channel and The Weather Channel at the same time, for uh, reasons.

  • are they still being pre mixed in the background?

    as is seems odd to make the mix channels so limited unless there is some kind of differnt encoding to make easier on the TV box to process and they are not encodeing all channels the same way.

    Dish Hopper 3 let's you pick any channel / vod / dvr show for there mix system.

    Direct has mix channels with 6-8 feeds at the same time + some times added ones with 4 at the same time.

  • I can already see the headline next year. "Youtube TV now supports SIX games at once."

  • Tandy OS9 Multi-Vue was a 1980s attempt at adding a window manager on top of a real-time multi-tasking operating system--on a $239 computer.

    • Every PC with an AMD GPU (all of which have VCE) should be able to decode up to 5 streams at a time (other sources sey up to 16...) , in hardware. Nvidia reportedly artificially limits the number of streams depending on the class of the GPU... Insert Torvalds quote here. Don't know about Intel.

      How about VLC and a tiling window manager? We keep giving up building blocks for integrated "solutions".

      I'm questioning the 'why' of playing back more than one thing at once, but then again, I'm not a sports watcher..

      • I'm questioning the 'why' of playing back more than one thing at once

        • Commercials. You can mute one stream and watch another that is still going.
        • Playoffs. The leagues will play games that have playoff implications at the same time to keep rating and players up.

    • MultiView on the Amiga was a bundled program that could view any file for which there existed a "datatype".

      A "datatype" was special type of a dynamically loaded shared object that could load and/or save a specific file format, providing a unified programming interface. For instance, a program only needed to support image datatypes to be able to load and store any image file format for which there existed a datatype: that is how all web browsers on the Amiga got PNG support in one swoop back in the day.

    • Isnt that just Windows?
  • I am on to you NFL. I am not going to fall for it. Not until the price for steaming the games comes real down.
  • adverts to the right of and stuck in the middle with adverts,

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