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7 Tips to Take Your Live Streaming to the Next Level

Live video streaming no doubt comes with its challenges. Without the ability to stop or re-do your stream, your only option is to prepare as much as possible in advance. Here are 7 quick tips on how to take your live streaming to the next level!

7 Tips to Take Your Live Streaming to the Next Level

Debugging Livepeer Stream Playback Issues

Product

Angie Ramirez

7 min read

Debugging Stream Playback Issues

Are you experiencing stream playback issues? Are you interested in having a more complete understanding of how to evaluate stream health? Read on for a couple of tools, tips and tricks to try on your own.

Step-by-step video tutorial on how to transcode your first stream through Livepeer.com in 6 easy steps

Product

Angie Ramirez

1 min read

Video Tutorial : Stream into Livepeer for the First Time

Step-by-step video tutorial on how to transcode your first stream through Livepeer.com in 6 easy steps.

Live streaming pipeline software and features supported by Livepeer.com

Product

Angie Ramirez

4 min read

Software and Features Livepeer.com Supports

Live streaming pipeline software and features supported by Livepeer.com.

Thanks to Livepeer’s global GPU infrastructure, reserving server space 24/7 for video transcoding is not a solution anyone needs to resort to anymore.

Engineering

Livepeer.com

4 min read

Livepeer's Always-On Transcoding Network

Livepeer leverages a readily available global network of always-on, incentivized transcoding providers that eliminate server boot-up latency from the video transcoding pipeline. Transcoding begins the moment a request hits our API, as there are always transcoders waiting and ready to take on transcoding “jobs.” In short, transcoding never stops.

As the at-home fitness market doubles, triples, and quadruples in size over the next decade, there is plenty of room for startup innovation.

Opinion

Angie Ramirez

5 min read

The Future of Online Fitness

Large companies like Peloton, OrangeTheory, and Apple are not the only ones who stand to capitalize on the at-home fitness trend. As the market continues to double, triple, and quadruple in size over the next decade, there is plenty of room for innovation.

Live streaming and e-commerce, an untapped opportunity outside of China

Opinion

Livepeer.com

3 min read

Live streaming and E-commerce, an Untapped Opportunity Outside of China

There is a large opportunity to disrupt more established e-commerce businesses in Europe and North America by being a fast follower of a rising trend in China - retail or e-commerce focused live streaming. Livepeer.com can help you take advantage of that opportunity

We believe in the power of live streaming in the social media sector to continue shaping our world of tomorrow.

Opinion

Angie Ramirez

4 min read

Live Streaming on Social Media Platforms

Growing platforms for performers, influencers, gamers, and many others looking to grow their brand on social media, tend to support a large number of live streams at a time, which often translates to unsustainable transcoding costs. They end up reliant on existing cost-prohibitive streaming platforms to fulfill increases in live streaming demand. When it has been shown that 80% of consumers prefer to watch a video than read a blog and 63% of 18-34 year olds watch live streaming content regularly, it is safe to assume that an investment in lower cost live streaming infrastructure can pay off exponentially in the future.

Engineering

Eric Tang

5 min read

Scaling the Livepeer Network

The Livepeer streaming API is powered by a network with uniquely distributed architectural design. At the core of this network is a live ingest and transcoding engine that tries to maintain a robust live streaming workflow in the face of networking issues or hardware failures. This helps the Livepeer infrastructure scale in unique ways.

PlayDJ, bringing DJ’s into people's homes during lockdown

Customers

Livepeer.com

2 min read

PlayDJ, bringing DJ’s into people's homes during lockdown

PlayDJ.tv, a newly launched user-generated music platform, gives DJs the ability to stream and more personally interact with listeners. The platform was created as a full service solution for DJs to host licensed streaming and to use innovative features such as tipping, paid entry, and private streams to monetize their work. In turn, PlayDJ.tv gives music lovers on-demand, access-anywhere streams of their favorite DJs.

Integrate Livepeer.com into THEOPlayer using a simple web app example

Product

Angie Ramirez

4 min read

How to Integrate Livepeer.com into a Web App using THEOPlayer

Learn to integrate Livepeer.com into THEOPlayer using a simple web app example

Step-by-step guide with screenshots of how to transcode your first stream through Livepeer.com in under 5 minutes

Product

Angie Ramirez

4 min read

Your First Livepeer.com Stream in Under 5 minutes

Step-by-step guide with screenshots of how to transcode your first stream through Livepeer.com in under 5 minutes!

Education

Livepeer.com

4 min read

Live Streaming Workflow

Live streaming has exploded recently, particularly in the last 6 months during the global lockdown. The technologies used in live streaming continue to evolve and advance, though the fundamentals remain the same. In this post, we’d like to walk through the basics of live streaming to explain the key aspects involved in getting content to eyeballs.

Product

Angie Ramirez

5 min read

How to Stream With Livepeer.com's RTMP API

The RTMP API is the newest API feature from Livepeer.com It allows a user to ingest RTMP streams into the Livepeer.com service, and receive a transcoded HLS output stream that enables adaptive bitrate streaming. In this tutorial, we'll go through the steps of creating and viewing transcoded streams with the RTMP feature of Livepeer.com.

What is video transcoding, why is it important, and how can I do it?

Education

Angie Ramirez

7 min read

Video Transcoding - What is it, why is it important, and how can I do it?

Video transcoding will allow your content to reach more end users. Video transcoding helps ensure that viewers with devices that do not support certain formats, have reduced capacity, or are incompatible with obsolete file types, are able to access the video files. It also ensures that those with slow connections can have a seamless watching experience.

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