It's awesome! Could watch the EG games last night on the subway and it was sweet.

Come on now LIVESTREAM.COM! I want an identical iPhone app so i can watch Day9 on my way to class, not to mention re-streamed proleague games live!

Also, Jtv has nice quality when the picture is still, but doesn't handle movement very well, gets very pixelated.

Cheeseball

Australia208 Posts

March 28 2010 11:50 GMT

Watching StarCraft during lectures. Holy shit that would be amazing.

On second thought, you could do that on a laptop anyway. Just never considered it.

kaleidoscope

Singapore2887 Posts

March 28 2010 12:08 GMT

On March 28 2010 20:27 Thrill wrote:
It's awesome! Could watch the EG games last night on the subway and it was sweet.

Come on now LIVESTREAM.COM! I want an identical iPhone app so i can watch Day9 on my way to class, not to mention re-streamed proleague games live!

Also, Jtv has nice quality when the picture is still, but doesn't handle movement very well, gets very pixelated.

actually they do have.. but the streamer must select the option for streaming to iphone..

Thrill

2599 Posts

March 28 2010 12:31 GMT

On March 28 2010 21:08 kaleidoscope wrote:

Show nested quote +

actually they do have.. but the streamer must select the option for streaming to iphone..

Yeah, it's a very outdated list of streams and not an app, just a mobile interface on their homepage. We really need an app!

Jlab

United States217 Posts

March 28 2010 16:45 GMT

Damn! Won't livestream not wok because it it Flash-based and iphones do not run flash (Macs have problems with it but they can run flash, haha). So they would have to change their entire setup to the new type of videos to send them to iPhones

Thrill

2599 Posts

March 28 2010 19:30 GMT

On March 29 2010 01:45 Jlab wrote:
Damn! Won't livestream not wok because it it Flash-based and iphones do not run flash (Macs have problems with it but they can run flash, haha). So they would have to change their entire setup to the new type of videos to send them to iPhones

Well, as mentioned earlier - livestream is already available on iPhone but the streamer has to go through some hoops and the watcher needs to go through Safari. I don't think an app is far away though :>

VManOfMana

United States764 Posts

March 29 2010 02:02 GMT

Not necessarily.

The problem is not the video format used by the stream, but that Flash is used to deliver the video.

The iPhone's native video format is H.264, which is becoming increasingly popular. See Youtube HD and Vimeo. The problem is that until recently, Flash was the only good enough option to deliver the content on multiple platforms. This is changing as more platforms support H.264 and video web sites like Youtube are experimenting with HTML5 video to deliver the content.

In the case of the iPhone, what apps are doing is stream the H.264 video without requiring Flash to play it. What for? The iPhone already supports the format without third party software. Same for Mac OSX and Windows 7. So its not like Livestream needs to support a video format specifically for the iPhone.

Thrill

2599 Posts

March 29 2010 19:31 GMT

Is it hard to enable playback on iPhones as a livestreamer btw? Would be pretty sweet if people started doing it unless there's some major obstacle!

Zevee

Sweden15 Posts

October 03 2011 19:08 GMT

Since this is the only iphone app thread about justin.tv, I bump it.

Does anyone know if twitch.tv is connected to the justin.tv app?

RoboBob

United States798 Posts

October 03 2011 19:25 GMT

#10

Twitch.tv is justin.tv.

So yes. Actually contrary to popular belief, there are no ads at all while watching streams via the justin.tv app. (There used to have super obnoxious ones but thankfully they got rid of them) There's only a small popup on the stream selection page.

However it does have many limitations, such as no vod support, and you can't manually select your resolution (instead it auto-adjusts depending upon your bandwidth). Because you don't see any ads, I'm not sure if streamers receive any revenue from views, which if true kinda sucks.

Hopefully all that will change soon: http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/kyay0/i_love_justintv_but_they_have_really_dropped_the/

Charger

United States2405 Posts

October 03 2011 19:26 GMT

#11

On October 04 2011 04:08 Zevee wrote:
Since this is the only iphone app thread about justin.tv, I bump it.

Does anyone know if twitch.tv is connected to the justin.tv app?

I watch twitch.tv streams on there all the time and I just tuned into TLO and it works just fine.

Thrill

2599 Posts

November 14 2011 20:39 GMT

#12

Wow, seeing this bumped was a bit confusing. Especially reading the original blog and the reference to Livestream.com

Currently all major streaming services have their own app except Own3d.tv which instead relies on html5 straight in the browser (no mobile version of the website).

Sadly this no-app approach is currently the best one. MLG did the same for their most recent events, so did Gametrailers for their E3 coverage.

My gripes with the JTV app as opposed to simply pressing 'play' in your browser:

1. You don't see clock/battery life when you tap the screen. Might seem trivial but it's annoying quite often.
2. Crashes - there are lots of them, far from as many on html5.
3. Buffering issues - seriously! Doesn't matter how good your connection is.
4. No play/pause/rewind interface (at least not satisfactory). Being able to delay the stream a bit and build buffer is a great thing until the world is fully covered by a 3G grid.
5. Weird loading issues forcing restarts - categories often an empty menu.
6. Absurd delay - delay that regardless of connection is more than 30s makes chat pretty much pointless.
7. No vods.
8. No possibility of rotating screen (this is probably the most annoying in some situations and so stupid).

At this point JTV need to overhaul the app entirely or make their live video html5 and vods h.264.

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