1. Streaming Part 1
Nicholas Alt, Mitchell Arthur, Sean Burke, Jason Flanders, Junfei Huang

2. Part 1 Part 1 Intro Advantages and Disadvantages
History of online streaming media
Current Technology
Part 2
How are Developers using streaming
The Future of Live Streaming

3. Overview Client to host connection
Host requests media; Client sends information for the host to receive.
User buffers media to
begin playback before
the entire transmission
has completed.

4. Streaming Media Streaming Media is not a new phenomenon.
Audio and video streaming have been explored since the earliest days of computing, though have not become relevant until recent with the drastic improvements to computer hardware.
The same can be said for video games.

6. Streaming in Video games
Live Streaming has been recently popularized.
As video games have progressed; they have been increasingly exciting to watch, as well as becoming more complex and in depth.
This had led to the huge increase in streaming for both players and viewers.

7. Advantages
Allows viewers an inside look at new video games without having to buy the game; more in depth than trailers for the games.
Can provide viewers with useful tips and hints.
Benefits companies through advertising and general exposure to precise target audience.

8. Advantages
Before streaming, players would use strategy guides for help with game play.

9. Disadvantages
The experience may ‘ruin’ a video game for a viewer. Expose content that the viewer didn’t want to see (ending to the game, plot twists etc.)
Streaming can cause lag by taking up processing power. If the streamer doesn’t have a good enough CPU, gameplay will suffer.
streaming will also take up excess bandwidth on the user’s network, also causing latency.
Using capture cards can ease the load of a processor while streaming video games.

10. Brief History of Media Streaming
George Owen Squier - Streaming
continuous music in 1920s
Severe Tire Damage - First band to play live over the internet
RealNetworks - Broadcasted sports games

11. History of early streaming Hardware
The “Last Mile” - refers to making telecommunication networks to the customers
TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML
Capture Cards

12. Capture Cards
Video capture device that can be used along side streaming software.
Mostly used for streaming from a console.
Can range from 5 to 500 dollars.
Still in use today for console streaming

13. History of YouTube Started live video in 2008
Steve Chen(co-founder of YouTube) - “Live video is something that we’ve always wanted to do, we’ve never had the resources to do it correctly, but now with Google, we hope to actually do it this year.”
Went from being a channel to a YouTube section

14. History Justin.tv(Twitch.tv)
Started in 2007 with streaming of general media
Made a branch in 2011 called Twitch.tv for gaming specific streaming

15. Twitch tv Launched since 2011
The user could choose to be viewer or broadcaster.
Realtime coverage of e- sports, including esports tournament, personal streams, and game-related talk shows

16. Twitch Tv
Before Justin.Tv and Twitch.Tv there were few options to monitize game recordings
Has been a key component in the growth of competitive gaming.
Live streaming no longer has huge hosting cost.

17. Twitch broadcasting Self expression Share the passion & technique
Earn money
Number of people broadcasting tripled during the last year
As of Feb 2013, Twitch had unique broadcasters per month

18. Twitch broadcasting

19. Twitch audience Most aged between 18 and 34
8 million unique monthly viewers in 2011
35 million unique viewers per month in 2013
Over tripled in three years
An average of 245 minutes per unique user per month

20. Twitch audience

21. Twitch Partners Low threshold Minimum concurrent viewership of 500+
Generate revenues from broadcasting
Many people make a living off live streaming

22. Twitch: The trends

23. Twitch: The trends

24. XSplit Started in 2009. Public beta released in 2010.
Commercial grade streaming software.
Relatively cheap with good technical support.

25. Open Broadcaster Software
Used by many gamers to stream their gameplay.
Free and open source Xsplit competitor
Only works for Windows Vista and newer Windows OS.

26. End of Part 1
In Part 2
Ways game devs are taking advantage of streaming
In game clients
Support built into next gen consoles
Connecting with players
The Future
Nvidia Shield
PS Vita
Windows Glass
More

27. Sources