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Posted by 72hrpartyanimal on Nov-09-2009 02:05:

justin.tv

anyone ever hear of it?

any thoughts or ideas on it?

Posted by MikeLord on Nov-09-2009 02:07:

yes... super awesome to watched ppv sports

Posted by DaveT on Nov-09-2009 02:29:

a site that started with a guy named justin who had a camera on him 24x7. He alwayus had his camera on him and his webcasting stuff in his backpack. We interviewed him at my old job about what he was doing before justin.tv grew into a company.

They got smoe capital money a few years ago and started up as a full company to what it is now. They developed some technology which, at the time, made their costs extremely cheap (in terms of streaming live video). It was something like less than 1/10th the cost most companies end up paying when it comes to streaming live content. (I remember all this because I specialized in live webcasts at my old job so of course the company interested me....basically wanted their technology lol)

Believe their office is on Townsend St in SF, but I don't remember.

I knew a dude who used to work there, but he left. Haven't talked to him in some time.

Easy to use site that lives the webcaster a lot of options...so if you are a beginner it's easy, if you are more experienced and understand bitrates and external encoders, you can use Adobe Flash Live Media encoder with them and set your settingfs yourself.

And yes, it's awesome for PPV events. I also use it for sports since west coast teams suck donkey nuts. There are sites out there that link you to pages on justin.tv tow watch all this stuff. And since it's purely flash, you are only a few seconds behind the actually TV broadcast (vs Windows Media streaming which would be 30 seconds to a few minutes behind). It's great.

Another site like it is ustream.tv

Posted by Nerologic on Nov-09-2009 02:45:

quote:
Originally posted by MikeLord
yes... super awesome to watched ppv sports

I am streaming the SNF game right now.

Posted by djjoshuaallen on Nov-09-2009 02:52:

I use it to watch laker games in class or at work. thanks justin

Posted by 72hrpartyanimal on Nov-09-2009 02:53:

so you just stream stuff? you get a camera and film yourself, the television or anything for other people to watch?

as for ppv events, you just point the camera towards your tv and and BAM, all over the interet?

Posted by Jim Carson on Nov-09-2009 02:56:

Posted by DaveT on Nov-09-2009 03:05:

quote:
Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal
so you just stream stuff? you get a camera and film yourself, the television or anything for other people to watch?

as for ppv events, you just point the camera towards your tv and and BAM, all over the interet?

You can do the camera and film yourself...that's what it's for.

For PPV events or other broadcast events, sometimes t's off a camera, but 99% of the time it's direct-feed. Getting a capture device to go straight from your cable/satellite box is inexpensive. Hell, a lot of times you can juse use a DV Video camera that has video-in on it...just hook your box through the DV Video camera and capture it through firewire on your PC. Some live events are shut down (because it's obviouslyl illegal) which is why it's usually best tofind a link through a 3rd party site..cause they will update the link when a steram is back up at a different URL (ie. under a different justin.tv username)

Posted by bigperf on Nov-09-2009 03:34:

started using it last month after davet referred to it in the NCAA football thread. was able to catch Texas Vs Mizzou when ABC was showing USC instead. Some people have feeds in HD quality straight from their direct tv, so i watch one game on my computer monitor and i have one less channel to have to change between.
saw the miami game yest on it :-)

caught the miami/NE on his stream today and watch arizon/chicago on tv. and in the afternoon found Carolina vs Saints so watched that online while Giants/Chargers was on tv.

no luck with boxing or ufc pay per views yet...you click on the screen and then the chat will show you all sorts of websites that supposedly have the event, but its mostly spam/trojan horses.

Posted by DaveT on Nov-09-2009 03:58:

Just bookmark these sites.
Also, find and install "sopcast" because some thigns require that (it's a simple application for streaming video...uses windows media player in the ned)

http://www.rajangan.net/
http://www.channelsurfing.net/

They update their schedules on gamedays and provide feeds of just about everything major in sports. Most of the time it links you to justin.tv, but sometimes sopcast or ustream.

Also a few stations that just play movies on there.

Posted by MelBeat on Nov-09-2009 04:22:

They're great for international soccer games too.

Posted by Kismet7 on Nov-09-2009 05:04:

quote:
Originally posted by MelBeat
They're great for international soccer games too.

Thanks for reminding me, cant wait for Worldcup 2010, and just knowing its around the corner makes me happy all over again.

Posted by Scissorhand on Nov-09-2009 05:10:

justin.tv "was" pretty awesome for its beneficiaries.

However, its popularity and the increasing awareness of its existence in the mainstream have only made it unreliable but that was expected.

These websites like many others have a shelf life that once expired then it's time to look elsewhere due to copyright infringements.

DaveT has obviously done his research.

btw, ditto on the sopcast.

Posted by gehzumteufel on Nov-09-2009 06:44:

quote:
Originally posted by MelBeat
They're great for international soccer games too.

as is atdhe.net

Posted by clubamerica on Nov-09-2009 06:54:

quote:
Originally posted by MelBeat
They're great for international soccer games too.
Heck yeah they are!! Last month when The USA Soccer national team played Honduras and the game was not telivised "free" in the USA. Justin.Tv had the game it was Awesome

Posted by 72hrpartyanimal on Nov-09-2009 18:29:

i thought it was pretty cool when i saw the site but you guys think its pretty much a dead site? is there any potential left for live streaming? following around Armin van Buuren or some weird shit like that?

Posted by Kismet7 on Nov-09-2009 18:42:

A lot of gamers host games on that site, unreleased games, demos, walkthroughs, playthroughs, how to save princess peach etc.

The site definately has potential for a far bigger spectrum of potential spectators, but it needs more marketing and exposure to people. Because people seem to love broadcasting themselves, and a live video form definately has the dynamics needed to take off with proper financial and marketing backing.

Just look at people who have Myspace + Facebook + Twitter + Cell Phone + Internet Forums. Plenty of room for a live video site to take off if its made more accessible to more people. I think they should open up the chatrooms to guests who browse the site, with the admins or moderaters being able to ban people who are there to purely disrupt, while allowing new people who are browsing to use the chat feature, until they eventually like the site enough to join and be part of it. This would drive traffic through the roof, because you go there and you're like shit, cool streaming video, I want to chat but I dont want to sign up to this shit. If they let people chat as guests without signing up, they'd create far more accounts and repeat visitors, and subsequently grow faster.

/business microecon nerd talk

Posted by Hypersky on Nov-09-2009 18:44:

quote:
Originally posted by DaveT
Just bookmark these sites.
Also, find and install "sopcast" because some thigns require that (it's a simple application for streaming video...uses windows media player in the ned)

http://www.rajangan.net/
http://www.channelsurfing.net/

They update their schedules on gamedays and provide feeds of just about everything major in sports. Most of the time it links you to justin.tv, but sometimes sopcast or ustream.

Also a few stations that just play movies on there.

Dave,

SOPcast is PC only yes ?

Posted by DaveT on Nov-09-2009 18:59:

Yeah, but there's a Mac solution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udFWrSAUBS8

read the comments as someone says to use mplayer instead of VLC and what to do...worked for a couple of my friends over the weekend.

Posted by gehzumteufel on Nov-09-2009 19:01:

quote:
Originally posted by Hypersky
Dave,

SOPcast is PC only yes ?

Works on Linux so I would presume there are ways to get it to compile on Mac OS. If that doesn't work though, try using Crossover to run the Windows version.

Posted by DaveT on Nov-09-2009 19:11:

yeah, that's what the youtube video uses...crossover

Posted by gehzumteufel on Nov-09-2009 19:15:

Ah cool! I have used Crossover on Linux, and it works very well.