[robert1356]

Does Twitch play nice with all mobile devices? NASA is providing live feeds for some (most? all?) of the regionals, if the the regional wants it, but they are only doing Flash streaming - laptops and desktops only for viewing, no mobile devices.

I spoke with someone from RobotsRUs who used UStream at the Georgia Southern Classic Regional (Perry, GA) this past weekend. It worked but they (RobotsRUs) were only mildly supportive of the approach of using UStream for various legitimate reasons. UStream also randomly inserted commercials in the stream at some of the most inopportune times. They're looking for another way of doing it in the future.

I want to stay away from Flash and any of the streaming services that tie me to Flash are not my top options.

One thing going for Ustream, and it looks like possibly Twitch also is that, while they seem to be Flash based, they will fall back to H.264 and play in an iOS mobile browser. I don't have an Android device to test on. Is that a true statement for Android devices also?

I've been thinking about rolling my own - using Darwin Streaming Server and just spitting out a live rtsp stream. You only need one good connection to a remotely hosted "cloud server" which could then serve to the end viewer. Dealing with the bandwidth limit imposed by the cloud service would be the main concern. RobotsRUs said their peak viewing was about 400 users. Not huge and any decent server these days should be able to handle this.