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Hey guys,
This is more of a message to streamers that are currently using livestream.com. Turns out that there is support for streaming to iPhone/iPad and other HTML5 supported devices already in place!
If you care for your stream to be watchable on those devices, which would be great for those of us on the go (or those of us sitting in the mall waiting for the wife to be done shopping). All you have to do to enable it is set the option in Procaster:
![[image loading]](http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/3033/capturexps.png)
That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. Your stream will be available to the mobile livestream.com site. Same URL as your current stream and all. Except now people that load up your URL on those devices will be able to watch you streaming as well.
Thanks for the streaming guys!
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I am very glad they did this. My stream will def be using this quality, just gotta get it on TL.
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Does this affect the high quality for non-mobile viewers ?
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Canada36 Posts
My guess would be that it needs somewhere between a small to moderate more CPU and bandwidth.
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On September 19 2010 13:47 Wolf wrote:
Does this affect the high quality for non-mobile viewers ?
I honestly don't know since I don't stream. Maybe someone is kind enough to try it out and post?
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Can anyone recommend a good app for the iPhone 4 for watching livestreams? The webbrowser is not an option because of the lack of flash..
I hear GOMtv are working on an app for watching the GSL, btw - That will be sweet
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On September 19 2010 13:55 ELA wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good app for the iPhone 4 for watching livestreams? The webbrowser is not an option because of the lack of flash..
I hear GOMtv are working on an app for watching the GSL, btw - That will be sweet
There is no such app. Either a stream site, like livestream.com, provides support via HTML5 which works on iPhone browser, or they make an app specific to them like Justin.tv has.
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At least to my understanding, they don't downscale for mobile devices, meaning, your actually streaming 2 streams. Say if you stream @ 850kbs, you will now have a 2nd stream @ 400kbs?
So basically, the bandwidth is most likely better put towards a higher quality stream.
at least, thats along the lines of what i read on their wiki thing for the procaster.
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I suppose if the streamer enables the mobile quality, then you could use the livestream app.
look up Livestream Viewer in the iTunes store, it's a free app.
you can only watch streams that have enabled the mobile quality thing though.
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Thanks you guys,
This might be a retarded question, but that app wouldn't happen to be compatible with uStream?
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It's quite annoying that the top TL streamers don't use this feature. It's been around for awhile. Please use it! I've been using it everytime I stream anything. Watching OSL finals on iphone? Fuck yes.. :D
The one drawback is you have to use H264 codec(or the other one, not the default, forget what its called)
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Kentor
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On September 19 2010 14:14 Tump wrote:
Also, Livestream is the only one to support this.
You can stream on mobile with ustream as well via FMLE. You just need to use the correct codecs namely H264 Baseline 3.1 for video and AAC for audio and it will be automatically available in the iPhone ustream app. It's in one of their FAQs.
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A few awesome streamers on TL have mobile enabled. I often check TL for streams that work on my iPhone when I'm on the bus for long periods of time.
I hope everyone that can turns on mobile support to maximize the number of potential viewers. I imagine that iPad viewing of streams would be quite comfortable in bed.
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On September 19 2010 14:17 Kentor wrote:Show nested quote +On September 19 2010 14:14 Tump wrote:
Also, Livestream is the only one to support this. You can stream on mobile with ustream as well via FMLE. You just need to use the correct codecs namely H264 Baseline 3.1 for video and AAC for audio and it will be automatically available in the iPhone ustream app. It's in one of their FAQs.
Ah cool, I stand corrected.
Seems there is little reason to use Livestream these days 
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This needs to be stickied
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On September 19 2010 14:17 Kentor wrote:Show nested quote +On September 19 2010 14:14 Tump wrote:
Also, Livestream is the only one to support this. You can stream on mobile with ustream as well via FMLE. You just need to use the correct codecs namely H264 Baseline 3.1 for video and AAC for audio and it will be automatically available in the iPhone ustream app. It's in one of their FAQs.
Yep..that's because that codec is the one supported by HTML5 on iOS devices and most HTML5 capable browsers.
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This is awesome and more streamers need to do it :D
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If only Day9 would add this, then I could watch the Day9 Daily on my phone 
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Kinda in the same realm, if you didn't know there's an app that helps you follow Starcraft VODs on your iPhone/iPad at: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=156849
As for streaming on the iphone/ipad, I think our best bet is to wait for youtube to launch their streaming service (which they're beta-testing now).
Once this happens, we'll have the streams everywhere we want, whatever the encoding etc. :D
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so long as its h264 most livestreamers are iphone supported whether they know it or not, Ustream has an ipod app for viewing but its just fucking terrible. Justin.tv is perfectly fine, the app works great so id say around 60% of streams are viewable on the iphone currently, which is awesome and as soon as ustream gets its foot out of its ass that will rise to 85-90 :D
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