This sounds great, @sircork! Is there a recorded copy of the stream which one can save or does that depend on the streaming software one is using?
[Edit : Had a look round the site and see that the streams seem to be saved. Very cool. ]
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Currently, its up to the streamer to record their own copy and upload to 3Speak or similar, and/or simulcast to a VoD platform like YouTube which can consume the RTMP and encode it and store it for later retrieval, but as noted in all the posts, wheels are turning to use decentralized solutions such as IPFS and that option will be a reality in the coming future but its very expensive and not central to live streaming. Most "pro streamers" rarely publish their multi-hour lives and even fewer viewers tend to watch those, unless its an interview with somebody like Musk, Trump or some hot actor or actress, and even then, two days later, its old news.
Pro streamers save locally, edit down to highlight cuts and upload those as VoD for time shifted viewers to catch the important bits out of what can be a lot of wasted time if you aren't at the event live, like watching a streamer greet everyone in the live chat room or whatever for the first ten minutes of the live.
So no, not now, yes someday soon, discussions are underway with some potential partners to make that happen for Hivians using HiveStreams.Live as a facilitator for it on their streams, but HSL itself will not store live streams.
If they are simulcast or saved to another platform post show, then once I've integrated those connections, the stored replays that are handled to these external sites would be linked into the channel pages as if they were stored at HSL for "back catalog" playback, but in overall, its not a core purpose of a live streaming site to save and run potentially tons of simultaneous encoding servers for billions of very-very-very expensive gigabytes of never-watched-again 7 hour minecraft "lets play" videos. It's just too costly and not of any much additional value. 3Spk network is working on that with their node network opportunities to earn by running such servers for services like mine, but its not a small task, its rather herculean in effort, scale, scope and cost.
If someone is producing pre-recorded content, the first stop should likely be 3Speak. They do the VoD thing as core purpose, where HSL serves the live show/live audience crowd.
It is possible to live stream pre-recorded content. I'm currently looping a local version of the classic old film Reefer Madness on my live channel, sending it live via OBS from my desktop. Its on loop so that there is a stream running concurrently with this fresh post about the site.
Also the last time I checked before supper a while ago, another user was also streaming his game play and webcam overlay while discussing his gaming in German, so that's a good example of a live, audience interactive stream, that no one would bother to watch a recording of tomorrow when he will likely be live again anyway, since he tends to stream every day for hours.
Make sense?
Absolutely. This streaming stuff is a bit new to me from a users perspective.
Awesome
To your edit, no, they are not saved. I did fail to mention in my last comment, you can save a small channel trailer for now, till I run out of 500gigs of disk space on the server and have to solve that problem too, but users are limited to 500mb uploads which means just a clip, teaser, trailer, commercial spot type thing to explain your channel to browsing viewers.
The goal is to move storage to de-cent IPFS systems via Hive ecosystems partner offerings or something like StorJ if I have to reach outside the Hive chain/tokenomics to make it possible.
Great stuff, @sircork! A wonderful addition to the HIVE Project!
Thank you very much! I've been burning a ton of midnight oil on it. Round the clock as much as possible for a few weeks now, it's starting to come together!