It’s an interesting experiment, albeit one that doesn’t make much sense to me from a product perspective. I guess producing the content at a loss is something Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to do. And it’s probably a good chance to dogfood some video delivery products.<p>Personally, I would almost always prefer a blog format over a live segment. If it is a live segment, then I’d hope I can at least watch the recording later.<p>I’m curious about engagement. Is anyone watching this? Does anyone seem to actually care?
Here's the original motivation for the project:<p><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/ladies-and-gentlemen-cloudflare-tv/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.cloudflare.com/ladies-and-gentlemen-cloudflare-...</a>
Very cool for multiple reasons! The first is that it seems a lightweight and straightforward approach to launch first and thereafter iteratively improve, e.g. using Zoom to push live video to Cloudflare. Secondly the content, while all Cloudflare-related, seems useful to learn about internet infrastructure, etc.<p>Perhaps the elephant in the room is "what's next"? Seems like it could at least become a Twitch competitor, if not also to YouTube if Cloudflare is able to figure out the monetization, privacy and copyright aspects.
> When the live programming ends at 1100, the video experience would break and the user would need to hit refresh to see the next show on the schedule.<p>If that was the only problem, why wouldn't changing the stream with a small amount of JS have worked rather than having to add a muxing layer in front of the streams?
Is cloudflare at a scale where it would be possible for them to provide cheap enough prices on video hosting and bandwidth to enable someone to build a profitable YouTube alternative on top of that? Assuming that a youtube competitor can get to similar scale and make similar revenue.
I can't wait for this to become available as part of Cloudflare Stream!<p>I need a simple API that would allow both a basic user with browser and a webcam, or an advanced one with OBS (RMTP...) to just live-stream as part of my product. And building everything at scale is just super painful.
Seems very close to "rolling your own (internet) TV station using open source and Zoom".<p>That's exciting that it's become so accessible.<p>Of course the hard part then is having a producer running the content all day + getting enough content.
> Cloudflare TV is a 24x7 TV channel that takes you behind-the-scenes and let’s you hear directly from the builders working on your favorite Cloudflare products.<p>So 24x7 monitoring of developers' screens overseen by the <i>world</i>? RIP devs X_X