Live channels

What it does

A channel is one or more finished videos in order, pushed to a platform's live ingest. Looped, so a viewer can arrive at any moment and find something on — a concert, a game day, a season of episodes. Once, and the channel switches itself off — a webinar, a talk, a launch at a set hour.

The platform serves the audience. One push from us, any number of viewers; the stream, the chat and the replay are the platform's.

Paste the stream key from the platform's Go live page. It is sent once, kept in a vault, and never shown again — not to us, not in a log, not in the database.

The standard behind it

• The push is a copy, never a second render. Every cut we make already closes a picture group every two seconds, which is what a live ingest needs; the looper reads in real time and hands the bytes on.
• Only finished cuts go live. A channel with a video still rendering refuses to start and names the video.
• Stop is honoured within half a minute: the looper asks whether it is still wanted on every pass and ends the push when the answer is no.