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by coldpie 3778 days ago
Twitch.tv, sadly.
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_jomo 3778 days ago
There's Beam [0], it's quite new but I've been quite amazed by their work. They invented some sort of own protocol built on web standards [1]. Also, their streams are actually live (i.e. minimal delay), it's all HTTPS and a lot of their work is open source. [2]

I hope this is going to be a thing.

0: https://beam.pro

1: http://forums.beam.pro/topic/168/where-we-re-at-with-html5-v...

2: https://github.com/watchbeam

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coldpie 3778 days ago
Thanks for the link. Looks neat, but sadly doesn't seem to be working in Firefox for Linux. Don't have time to dig into why right now (missing MSE? some codec I don't have?)
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_jomo 3778 days ago
It wasn't working for me when I `had media.fragmented-mp4.*.enabled` turned on. Started working again after turning it off.

Other than that, I think they're A/B testing some experimental features. Perhaps try a few different streams and see if those work?

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emmett 3778 days ago
We're working on the switch (I announced at TwitchCon). It's particularly hard for live video, but that's just an excuse. Clearly the time has come.
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