Event Live Stream Ideas

[Nirvash]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

Paid vs free. If the channel paid for Livestream pro/premium/whatever-they-call-it, then it will embed the video itself. But if it's a free channel (which most of the FRC events that used it were) it embeds a webpage with a button that loads the channel in a new window/tab.

I was the one that implemented it in TBA. Unless I missed something, there's no way to get around it. The channels I used to test the functionality were local news stations, and it loaded the video right on the site. But once Dallas' regional (I believe) rolled around, it ended up with a message about the event being live and having to "Click Here" to actually play the event.

Very odd, one service I was a beta tester for (The now closed synchtube.com) had no issue embedding a Livestream stream of any type. We tested this extensively with free and verified channels with 1000+ users.

After that site closed the owner linked me to this as an alternative. I have been meaning to play with it since it's opensource, but looking at the test site they have, it handles livestream the same way.
Both sites are/were built off Javascript and Node.js, hopefully they can be some help.